EDITORIAL: Nations Unies: un nouveau départ? (Marc Nerfin)..... LOCAL SPACE: Development of the rural poor : the missing factor (Om Prakash & P.N. Rastogi)... Ecología o ideología? (Esteban Krotz)... Eco-industrialism, high-tech and the search for alternatives to progress (Wolfgang Sachs)... Letter to Rigoberta Menchú (Anne Buchanan)..... THIRD WORLD SPACE: Un nouvel ordre Sud-Sud pour un nouvel ordre mondial (A.Ben Salah)... Tomorrow?s habitat (Mahdi Eimandjra)... Reactivación, desarrollo y deuda: una propuesta (Osvaldo Sunkel)..... GLOBAL SPACE: The future of the United Nations system (John E. Fobes)... Leelananda De Silva reviews M. Zaramit Cutajarrs UNCTAD and the South-North Dialogue: The first twenty years ... Beyond the nuclear holocaust (Surindar Suri)..... NEWS FROM THE THIRD SYSTEM: Mexico: Self-Help Network... Network of Concerned Third World Lawyers launched... Right Livelihood Awards to activists in East and West... The TVAS Fellowship and Research Grants Schemes... Collectif européen Conscientisation... Futures of support in different cultures (WFSF)... Canada: Chance for Children Development Fund... Denmark: Kulu..... LETTERS..... FOOTNOTES..... MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION