Number 275 is the post-Genoa issue. A large dossier,
comprising half the magazine, is devoted to analysis
and comment on the violence of the police against the
protestors, and to considerations on the anti-G8 movement.
After a presentation of the dossier in the "ai
lettori" editorial, Carlo Oliva highlights the
success of the anti-G8 mobilisation, but at the same
time points out its limitations. Francesco Codello describes
his feelings in the days that followed the demonstrations,
while Alessandro Martometti describes the events of
20th July from his own perspective. In their respective
articles, Antonio Cardella and Adriano Paolella both
comment on the Black Bloc and violence/non-violence
in the movement, and the Black Bloc is also the subject
of the article by Pietro Della Mea. A repudiation of
the violence of both the police and the Black Bloc is
signed by the "A" editorial team and a number
of other active anarchist groups. Luisa Muraro discusses
the effect on the anti-globalisation movement of its
close encounter with its adversary, while Stefano Olimpi
sees the irony of "power using anarchists to hit
the movement".
Researchers Filippo Benfante and Piero Brunello, who
are about to publish a book on the subject, discuss
the links between demonstrations in the street and the
football stadiums, while Luigi Veronelli brings the
multinationals' attempts to patent seeds and life into
the mix.
The final article in the dossier is one that appeared
in a Genoan daily by writer Maurizio Maggiani, "Confession
of an anarchist". The photos in the dossier are
by Carlo Cattadori of the Cascina Autogestita Torchiera
Senzacqua.
Yet the issue does not finish there. G.R. interviews
Paolo Finzi on the extraordinary success of the CD+booklet
"ed avevamo gli occhi troppo belli" (seven
thousand copies sold in 3 months). Details of how to
obtain the CD are also given.
In his regular column, "a nous la liberté",
Felice Accame discusses the influence of Saint Thomas
Aquinas on detectives and bankers. Pino Cacucci's article
is on the Plan Puebla-Panama, the environmentally disastrous
megaproject threatening to affect the whole Central
American region.
The work of Uruguayan writer Carlos Liscano, permeated
by his experiences in prison under the military dictatorship,
is discussed by Fernanda Hrelia, who has translated
some of his works into Italian.
In "libertarian review", Stefano Giaccone
reviews CDs of Celtic music of Wales' Julie Murphy and
Dylan Fowler, while in "Music and Ideas",
Marco Pandin discusses another CD+booklet, Free Mumia
Abu-Jamal, issued by AK Press, in aid of the campaign
for Mumia's release.
In a new column, "Dalla palude" [from the
swamp], Mario Bossi interviews Mirko Spino of Wallace
Records.
In the first of another new feature, "Ritratti
in piedi", on anarchist texts by writers of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Massimo Ortalli
looks at the work of Pietro Gori, and a piece by Angelo
Toninelli describing Gori's funeral. The life and work
of Brazil's Jorge Amado, who recently passed away, is
assessed by Giovanni Alioti. Again dealing with nineteenth-
and twentieth-century anarchism, but this time the songs,
is a book by Santo Catanuto and Franco Schirone; Mauro
Macario considers the work, three songs lyrics from
which are included.
In "Fatti e misfatti", Alessio Lega tells
of the seventh festival of the music of Léo Ferré
at San Benedetto del Tronto, and the Comunidad del Sur
of Montevideo remember Alfredo Errandonea, who recently
passed away. Fittingly, the issue closes with the "Smoke
Signals" column, in which Carlo E. Menga discusses
the meaning of a horse's ass.
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