According to the leader of the Zapatista National Liberation Army, the contemporary economic and social changes in the context of globalisation amount a new world war that is fought by the great financial centres for the redistribution of the world market at the expense of the entire humanity.

The leader of the Algerian war of independence remembers the revolutionary Cuba and the personal undertaking of Che Guevara in the African and Latin American liberation struggles of the early 1960s.

The article presents Michel Löwy's La pensée de Che Guevara. Un humanisme révolutionnaire. The world has changed since the first 1969 edition of this book. The author however believes that Che's moral standing and his commitment to human dignity and liberty is a living message to our generation even in the age of "the end of history."

It is now clear that the4 emerging East European capitalism will be different from the Western models. The future European integration will not be able to change this circumstance. The so-called globalisation plays a substantial role in this.

The left has been strong in the criticism of the system while it has been weak on presenting alternative blueprints. Coherent and radical programmes are missing from contemporary politics. This article outlines some proposals for a possible alternative.