The authors claim that the main reason for the return of post-communist parties is that they could sell themselves as social-democratic parties. Accordingly, their failure to fulfill the related promises will be the main cause for their fall. In order to understand the dynamic of East European politics, class analysis must be revived.

Two books have been published on the history of the Hungarian Free Democrats i.e. the former "democratic opposition". The author compares these books and also reviews a critique of the same books by Miklós Szabó.  (Ervin Czizmadia: A magyar demokratikus ellenzék. I-III. [The democratic opposition in Hungary], T-Twins Kiadó 1995., Ripp Zoltán: Szabad demokraták [Free Democrats]. Napvilág Kiadó 1995.

The young radical political activists, now editors of the New Left Review, made an interview with John Lennon in 1971, first published in Red Mole, and re-published in Red Pepper in 1996. That was the politically most active period of Lennon's short life.

John Westergaard, Henrietta Resler: Class in a Capitalist Society: A Study of Contemporary Britain. Avebury, 1975

John Westergaard: Who Gets What? The Hardening of Class Inequality in the Late Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Polity Press, 1995

Etienne Balibar – Immanuel Wallerstein: Race, Nation, Classe. Les identités ambiguës. Edition La Découverte, 1988.

Immanuel Wallerstein and Etienne Balibar published a volume collecting their polemic essays on race and class. They highlight, for example, that certain doctrines of formal emancipation can easily be reconciled with the practice of social and national exclusion.