The Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS) celebrates its 125-year anniversary with a new strategy for its future development (consisting of 14 research programmes) and also with its new logo. Part of the speech of the CAS President delivered at the 45th Session of the Academiy Assembly (16th December 2014) is published with the aim of presenting the important ideas behind the Strategy AV21 for the 21st century. and Jiří Drahoš.
The Welsh literary and cultural theorist Raymond Williams was, together with Stuart Hall and Richard Hoggart, a founding figure of British Cultural Studies. He is known, among other things, for the unorthodox interpretation of Marxism he called “cultural materialism”. We present here a Czech translation of Williams’s reflections on Die Alternative (published in English as The Alternative in Eastern Europe) by Rudolf Bahro. Williams’s text first appeared in the New Left Review under the title “Beyond Actually Existing Socialism” (NLR I, no. 120, March/April 1980). Translated by Magdaléna Michlová and Jaroslav Michl, introduced by Jaroslav Michl.