In Rome not only are there the many initiatives promoted by the Catholic Church for the Jubilee. In the first few days of July there will also be an international meeting and a march that the Pope would never like to see in "his" Rome during "his" Jubilee: the days devoted to gay pride events. Michele Pisicchio discusses this in the opening article of issue 263 (May 2000) of the anarchist magazine "A". In his usual ironic piece, Carlo Oliva deals with the advertising of a "Jubilee pen", one of the tons of gadgets (indirectly) marketed by the Vatican. The central dossier in this issue is devoted to war and includes 4 pieces. Maria Matteo analyzes conflicts in general in this age: her article is significantly entitled "The Normality of Horror". Seven members of the Banda degli Ottoni (a musical-libertarian group from Milan) give us their impressions of a trip to Bosnia, where they went to participate in the Winter Festival in Sarajevo. The writer Pino Cacucci (one of the major experts in Italy on Latin-America, friend and translator of Sepulveda, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, etc.) denounces Nato's criminal role during the "humanitarian" war in Kosovo a year ago: in particular, he refers to the expulsion of the whole Jewish Kosova community by the Albanians (supported by Nato). Laura Di Martino interviews Sergio Bonelli, a surgeon working with "Emergency", on the construction of a hospital in the north of Afghanistan, on the characteristics and role of the Red Cross and other "humanitarian" organizations, etc.. On the Fatti&Misfatti page, Nadia Agustoni discusses Chechnya, Paolino Bruschi reports on the women's march on 8th March in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Amnesty International denounce the racist behaviour of the Austrian police even before the rise of Haider, Massimo Ortalli reports on the opening of two new anarchist historical archives in Reggio Emilia and Rimini. Maria Mesch, an artist involved in the European TransEuropeHalles project, begins her collaboration with "A" with an amusing piece on art forgeries. In the Libertarian Review we present 2 new books, a magazine and a film. The books are "Red Emma. Un'anarchica in America" (on Emma Goldman) and "Il cristallo di quarzo" [The Quartz Crystal] (a story by Marco Sommariva). The magazine is "ApARTe", a sumptuous art and anarchy magazine, the first issue of which has recently come out. The film is "Faber", devoted to singer songwriter Fabrizio De André, who died a year ago (may we remind you that "A" magazine has produced a special issue devoted to him, which is also extensively advertised in this issue of "A"). We must also mention the usual columns by Marco Cagnotti (Internet), Carlo E. Menga (Advertising), Felice Accame (who this time discusses dining out), Marco Pandin (4 pages packed with music info) as well as the traditional "Tamtam" with information on events, publishing initiatives, etc.. Five letters are published: two discuss gypsies, one Spanish anarcho-syndicalism, one drugs at discos and the last is a long series of criticisms of certain "clichés" present in the alternative and libertarian world.

translated by Leslie Ray