For issue 306 it is still Iraq that dominates proceedings. Carlo Oliva compares George W. Bush with the tyrants of old; Maria Matteo looks at the complicit role of the mass media in “normalizing” the horror in Iraq through the continuous bombardment of shocking images. And then, the Iraqi elections, Antonio Cardella wonders if they really represent the triumph of democracy.

On a much more positive note, an essay by Marianne Enckell stating that “anarchists have a future” and looking at the songs of anarchism’s illustrious past.

And in Reggio Emilia, an exhibition of the photos of Vernon Richards: “He was an excellent photographer, a precursor, in a certain sense, of a particular branch of verism that had formed between Italian positivistic culture and the British culture of the experimental research of the ‘60s” - Giancarlo De Carlo, 2004.

by Leslie Ray