Following the collapse of the so-called peace process and the election of Likud in 2001, a left-wing Israeli organisation issued a manifesto about the origins of the current conflict and the possibilities of solution.

The enlargement of the EU is perhaps the greatest challenge for European politics in the forthcoming decade.Michael Hindley, Peter Gowan, Catherine Samary, Jörg Huffschmied, Béla Galló, Péter Balázs and Annamária Artner  explain their views on the EU and its expansion.

Table of contents

1. Kapitány Gábor : Eszmelet and the left in the 21st century
2. Tamás Gáspár Miklós : New East European left
3. Kállai R. Gábor : Reflections to the critical left
4. Kiss Viktor : An other theory of Marx
5. Guy Debord : The proletariat as subject and representation
6. Konok Péter : Demanding te impossible
7. Paul Valley : New Left Review
8. Perry Anderson : Renewals – Debate on the New Left
9. John Parrington : On John Bellamy Foster: The ecology in the marxist philosophy
10. Szigeti Péter : On Agnes and Gabor Kapitany (ed.): Eternity in change: Hommage a Ferenc Tokei
11. Márkus Péter : On Szabo-Szecsi (ed,) Studies on Gyorgy Lukacs
12. Szabó Tibor : Elements of philosophical antropology in late works of Lukacs
13. SZKP KB : Lukacs in the eyes of the Soviet secret service
14. Lugosi Győző : Gush Shalom’s points: Arguments for a new peace block
15. Balázs Péter, Galló Béla, Catherine Samary, Jörg Huffschmid, Michael Hindley, Peter Gowan, Artner Annamária : On the enlargement of the EU
16. Borisz Kagarlickij : New Left Review kills itself

In January 2000, Perry Anderson editor of New Left Review outlined the philosophy of the journal for the forthcoming period. Boris kagarlitsky from Moscow in his counter-argument claimed that this is the death of the new left.

An initiative for rethinking the fundamentals of left wing thought and politics by the founder of Eszmélet.