The Chechoslovak leader of the 1968 Prague Spring has become the symbol of democratic socialism. The short portrait provides an opportunity to discuss the chances of the latter at the millenium.

Most of the people only see the wage demands in the railway strikes of the recent years in Hungary. The Friends of Eszmélet Society invited trade union leader Imre Márkus in order to get a picture of their analysis and their account of the industrial action of early 2000.

Firstz published in 1947 in Monthly Review. The famous physicist explaines why he believes that socialism is the way forward for humanity.

The author compares the positive and negative utopias of globalisation and the information society. In our real world, the freedom of capital movements stimulates a devaluation of labour everywhere, no matter which scenario we favour in principle.