The founder of the Christian base-community movement called "Bokor" [Cluster] discusses the determining experiences of his life. He was sentenced to a total of nine years in prison in the Rákosi and Kádár regimes but with his conviction he has also invited the anger of the official Church circles. Bulányi is a sovereign thinking piarist monk-teacher. He discusses the realisation of the need to stand up against intolerance and the importance of freedom and loyalty in solidarity and thinking.

Different from our previous practice, this double issue of Eszmélet is organised around not only one but three main topics: "Religion and leftism", "Capitalism for beginners" and the "Hatered and the psychology of genocide". The three thematic blocks follow each other in this order.

The short study warns against the grave dangers of applying a shock therapy in Hungary. The sinking of two thirds of society bears the danger of the gaining ground of right-wing radicalism.

Burbach too, explains the Gulf War with the oil interests. He enumerates the American interventions and provides new examples to prove that they have not happened in the interests of "democracy". He proves by the example of Latin America (with the detailed analysis of the recent past of Nicaragua and Mexico) that the neo-liberal policy has failed to consolidate the democratic institutions of the less developed countries. Then discussing the American foreign political activities in Eastern Europe, he shows how does the Latin Americanisation of Eastern Europe serve direct American interests. The author who comes from the United States calls attention to the fact that an inner society which is in crisis in many ways is behind the USA's foreign policy. He sees the future of the American democracy in its broadening, "socialisation" and in the increase in the weight of the civil society.

The short news taken over from the international press discusses the fact of environmental destruction in Central America showing to what extent it is the consequence of the activities of the American monopolies, poverty they have induced as well as the (colonisation type) war forced onto the peoples of the region.