The emergence of a New Left in Western Europe and the mass support for the post-communist parties in Eastern Europe shows that vast numbers of the world population do not accept the existing social order. What began in 1989 resulted in losses for many. In that light we have to pay attention to the new and radical tendencies of the international left ignored by many analysts and professional political scientists.See the coming published version in Kate Hudson: European Communism since 1989: towards a new European left, Macmillan Publishers, 1999.
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The twilight of the European project
The Balkan war of 1999 Spring brought to an end the project of Western and Eastern Europe, i.e. the plan of post-Cold War unification. This would have been a viable project only if the Western states had wanted to rebuild the region on the basis of international norms instead of the principles of dominance and great power relations.
Bombs and human rights or the militarization of politics
With launching the 1999 Balkan war, the politicians of the Western community handed over the direction of politics to the people of the military Even the German Greens did so, although previously they wanted to prevent the militarization of politics. The agression was carried out with reference to human rights, while the latter can only be assured on tho basis of civil society and not the bombs of the military or the improductive discussions of some philosophers.
The letter of a traveller to the President of the French Republic Jacques Chirac
The famous French journalist compares his fist hand experience with tho official rhetoric and reports that reach the public fora of the Western world about the Balkan crisis and war. The huge discrepancies discovered hero speak for themselves.
The Nato war against Yugoslavia
The Left Alternative Association (BAL) organized a forum during the bombing campaign of NATO against Yugoslavia in Spring 1999. Some well-known personalities of Hungarian public life, like sociologist Erzsebet Szalai, historians Ivan Harsanyi, Tibor Hajdu and Tamas Krausz, political economist Nicholas Bardos-Feltoronyi, literary historian Daniel Jakocs, film criticist Ivan Forgoes, and an unnamed Kurdish participant presented their views on the tragic events.