"Free trade" unions and the state - trade liberalization's endorsements by AFL-CIO, 1943-1962, Peter Donohue; economics of shortage or specificity of capital accumulation: the Soviet case - a Marxian perspective, Paresh Chattopadhyay; the development of state capitalism in the Soviet system, Paul Zarembka; Deng Xiaoping's reform and the Chinese workers' participation in the protest movement of 1989, Shaoguang Wang; the state and social appropriation - the case of Nicaragua, 1979-1989, Janet M. Tanski.