In Russia the Federal Security Service is again creating political provocative trials against "leftist terrorism." The author shows the legal and political fakeness and the political function of these trials embedded in the history of the created cases. The history of the examinations fits the Stalinist tradition just as it fits the preceding heritage of the tsarist secret service.

What do we think of the skinheads? The author shows that they have not always been fascist gangs and even today they are not necessarily fascists. Originally they came from the rebelling working-class youth with rather leftist views. The successors of the real skinheads today sharply oppose racism and fascism and stick to their original anarchist or communist ideas.

What is the economic-social context of the advance of the Latin American left since the past few years? What is new about these "new social movements" and how original are their demands, values, organizational forms, actions, and proclaimed identities?

Table of contents

1. Szigeti Péter, Tanay Marcell, Alpár Róbert, Benyik Mátyás : Reflexions to the 3rd European Social Forumról (London, 15-18 October 2004)
2. Szigeti Péter : Towards the 4th social pilar of the EU
3. Vastagh Pál : On the EU Constitutional Treaty through Hungarian eyes
4. Lóránt Károly : The EU Constitutional Treaty
5. Vincze Hajnalka : Security and defence policy reforms in the Constitutional Treaty
6. Gerald Epstein : Power of the central banks
7. Eric Toussaint : The World Bank and the IMF in the service of dictatorships
8. Farkas Péter : A very decent discussion paper for the developing world
9. Tütő László : Haves and have-nots Part 1
10. John Lea : Crime as governance
11. Sonja Buckel : Autonomy and violence
12. Simon Paulenz : Unjust justice
13. Ursula Flossmann, Bernd Piringer : Free player of the law
14. Konok Péter : On the margins of an unclosable dispute
15. Krausz Tamás : Reflections to the current debate on socialism
16. Deák Barna : To the leftwing critique of the Soviet experience
17. Védegylet Oktatáspolitikai Műhely : Is the school flunking?