Table of contents

1. Michel Collon : Ten questions about the banlieues
2. Kabai Imre : “Postindustrial” societies and the youth in modern sociology
3. Reich Orsolya, Kiss Viktor : New politics or a rightist youth? An attempt to explain the political orientations of the Hungarian youth
4. Tarnai István : On the book Social stratification and life events. The Hungarian youth in the postindustrial age by Imre Kabai
5. Bartha Eszter : The poor rich. The late Kádár-system in the popular literature
6. Alekszandr Nyikolajevics Taraszov : From the latest history of police provocation
7. Csoma Lajos : Skinhead- the public enemy
8. Bernard Duterme : The conditions, forms and first balance of the return of the Latin American left
9. James Petras : The determining role of peasant movements in Latin America
10. Julian Brookes, Richard Gott : Hugo Chávez and his Bolivarian revolution – Julian Brookes, the editor of the electric journal Mother Jones discusses with Richard Gott, the well-known Latin American reporter.
11. America Vera-Zavala : Venezuela: the country of parallels
12. Jonah Gindin : Made in Venezuela: variations on workers’ self-management
13. Szigeti Péter : The philosopher of power – on the state
14. Krausz Tamás : 1905 in the Leninist paradigm – a contribution. Lenin’s analysis of capitalism and the revolution
15. V. I. Lenin : Lecture on the revolution of 1905
16. Tamás Tibor : Search for alternatives against the “new oppressive regimes” – The international conference of the periodical Eszmélet in the Kossuth Klub on 14-16 October

His life work: a half-century struggle from thesis to thesis on every possible front against the traditional directions and hegemonic paradigms of social sciences.

The article gives a profound and witty review of the basis of the economy of the USA: the debt traps, the bubble of the dollar, etc. by comparing the world economy to a pyramid game, which sponsors the American machinery from the voluntary payments of the exploited, the punter, and the bribed comprador bourgeoisie. The author relates the increasing aggression of the USA to the increasing problems in the functioning of this system…

While Nineteen Eighty-Four seemed to be a historical nightmare in Orwell's age, today we can meet many of the philosophical and linguistic "inventions" of the novel such as the aesthetization and thereby verification of war. The essay examines the historical, geopolitical and structural reasons of why the developed Western core countries returned to the once discredited dichotomy of civilization versus barbarism, and uncritically associated their social and political order with civilization. This new world order is supported by a manager-elite, which is not committed to any ideology, and is always ready to re-define its ethics and world view.

According to the famous leftist author, the "red canon", the most important goal of social movements is to understand that there are alternatives to the present capitalist economic order. There is an increasing resistance in various movement circles and at various levels but no-one believes that a political revolution can alone bring about rapid changes. For the time being, it is early to speak of the synthesis of various alternatives both in theory and practice. The attraction of market economy is palpable everywhere. And still today the neo-liberal model is opposed by two economic directions: neo-Keynesiasm and postcapitalism that are at issue also with each other.