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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

For about two decades there is little difference between the social democratic parties and the social liberals in the decisive questions of economy and social politics. Therefore it can be internationally important that in Germany a new political formation, the Linkspartei came to the fore. This significant experiment led by the experienced and charismatic politicians, Gregor Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine can re-arrange the political fragmentation in Germany.

Can the philosophy (and any social science) have social relevance or is it only the business of scholars? Does an intellectual have to – or can an intellectual – play a public role or he or she is predestined to formulate (often unpractical) theses that are taught at the university? The author addresses this question on the occasion of the centenary Sartre-conference organised in Rome.

Neoliberalism and the European social democracyon the national economic policies in West-Europe and North-America, where these models replaced Keynesiasm and the theoretical basis of socialist-social democratic parties and the North-American progressive parties. The collapse of communism in Central-East-Europe significantly impacted on the social democratic ideology and practice; it accelerated the disintegration of the so called "German model". The end of the social democratic Keynesiasm and the maintenance of the welfare systems that are becoming more and more marked-based, empty the welfare regulations and the regulation of the labour market.

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1. Barry K. Gills : Prophet in the desert. Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005)
2. Andre Gunder Frank : The king is naked
3. Kees van der Pijl : The aesthetics of the empire and the defeat of the left
4. François Houtart : Is there an alternative to world capitalism?
5. David Harvey : The new imperialism and the global economy of deprivation. (Interview)
6. Andre Mommen : The essay examines the impact of globalization
7. Anwar Shaikh : The economic mythology of neoliberalism
8. Vigvári Gábor : Ten years after the Bokros-package. Comparative study of the anniversary articles in the Hungarian media
9. Lóránt Károly : The neoliberal politics of the European Union. From theory to practice
10. Andor László : Empire or whatever you want
11. Kiss Viktor : The alternatives of the reform politics – to the margin of a privately published book
12. Mocsáry József : The hour of justice. Thoughts on the village and agriculture
13. Laki László : The country and the villages “after agriculture”
14. Hajdu János : The Linkspartei comes to the fore in Germany
15. Szabó Tibor : Jean-Paul Sartre, the disputed intellectual