The Reader may not know these two documents from Lenin, since they were only published a few years ago in a volume of documents, which contains the writings and speeches of Lenin blacklisted in the Soviet era.

Our editorial board has sent out a question to domestic and foreign social scientists. The question was the following: Has a new world order been born in the Spring of 2003? The aim of our initiative was to evaluate the effect of the war against Iraq on the international relations (law, politics, economics, culture). Our authors have offered the following writings for publication as an answer to the inquiry.

The social embeddedness of the leftist values were traditionally institutionalised (and could, in a new form, be also institutionalised these days) by the activities of two types of organisations: trade unions and co-operatives. The author of this summary makes an attempt to focus the attention of the reader on the Hungarian embeddedness of co-operatives.

Members of our virtual round-table, leading intellectuals, share their opinion about one of the most important values of the trade union movement. In order of appearance, you can read the short comments of Vilmos Csányi, Zsuzsa Ferge, Ferenc Gazsó, Attila Ágh, Erzsébet Varga and Katalin Lévai.