The magazine opens with an editorial by Maria Matteo that contrasts the international reactions to the destruction of the stone Buddhas in Afghanistan with the general indifference to the situation of oppression in which the women of that state - and not only them - find themselves. It is no coincidence that the article is entitled "Heart of Stone".

"Two cities and two visions" is the title of the report by Dimitri Roussopoulos on what happened at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre (Brazil), the event that challenged the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland).

Massimo Annibale Rossi conducts an in-depth interview with Ruben Prieto, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the beginning of the Comunidad del Sur experience in Uruguay.

In "behind cardinal Sodano", Massimo Ortalli discusses the church, the concordat, priests and the lay state.

A visit to the Dachau concentration camp provides the stimulus for reflections by Francesco Codello on individual responsibility and the processes of conditioning.

Carlo Oliva considers the Savoia family in a "semiserious, or rather very serious way".

In "The Book in the Age of Globalization", Guido Lagomarsino illustrates the future prospects of this problematic object.

"Ribelli!" is the title of the new book by Pino Cacucci, two chapters of which are previewed: the story of partisan Irma Bandiera and that of a Spanish antifrancoist in the French detention camps.

The Bread & Puppet Theatre and its political and social commitment are the focus of an interview with the founder of the group, Peter Schumann, by Maria Mesch.

The article by Mauro Macario in memory of Riccardo Mannerini - poet, collaborator in the '60s with Fabrizio De André, navy refrigerator technician, antimilitarist anarchist - is accompanied by some rare poems by Mannerini.

In their usual columns, Felice Accame discusses crime and Carlo E.Menga consumerism.
Marco Pandin tells of the story and music of Environs.
Stefano Giaccone reviews the new CD by Mario Congiu.
Dino Taddei reviews "Attentato al duce. Le molte storie del caso Zamboni" [Attack on the Duce. The Many Stories of the Zamboni Case].

In the chronicles of "fatti & misfatti", Claudio Venza tells of the persecution of the youngsters of the magazine "Germinal" in Trieste and Walter Siri reports on the conference in Bologna on the political and social far right in Italy.

Among the letters to the editors, we must mention an exchange between Franco Pasello and Zelinda Carloni regarding the spiritual motivations expressed - among other shared ones - against the project for the Messina Bridge (A 270). The polemics aroused by Felice Accame's article on Leda Rafanelli (A 269) also continue, with letters from Cesare Bermani and Fiamma Chessa.