Issue 317 has a special dossier on the Spanish Civil War, entitled ‘Spain '36’, with contributions by Gianni Sartori, Martha Ackelsberg and Claudio Venza.
Carlo Oliva tells the story of Abdul Rahman, the Afghan converted to Christianity who is seeking political asylum in Italy. Maria Matteo reports on the atrocious violence committed against women in India, Mexico and elsewhere. Antonio Cardella takes the issue of labour rights in France as his point of departure for a more general consideration of work and society under globalisation. Another thought piece, this time by Andrea Papi, on the need for anarchists to propose rather than protest. Analogously, an article by Oscar Greco on citizenship in the age of modernity.
There is a fascinating photographic report on the memorial stone to Giuseppe Pinelli, which significantly had the word 'killed' – temporarily – replaced with ‘died' by the City Council.
Three items in this issue's ‘Fatti&Misfatti’: Paul Avrich is remembered by Nunzio Pernicone; Alba and Lina Antonelli remember Augusta Vanni, ‘Bionda’; plus, Virgilio Galassi on a libertarian school for immigrant students.
Once again in this issue – inevitable as Spring – the debate on Ahmadinejad continues, with further contributions by Francesco Berti and Roberto Colombo.
In his notes on history and narrative, Alberto Prunetti begins with a review of ‘Il collare di fuoco’ by Valerio Evangelisti to go on to embrace works by Louis Adamic, Osvaldo Bayer, Rodolfo Walsh and Bernard Thomas.
This month's duo on musical themes, ‘Musica&Idee’ and ‘e compagnia cantante’, has a review of Elia by Lalli and Pietro Salizzoni in the former and the second part of Alessio Lega's interview with Fausto Amodei in the latter.
Felice devotes his ‘a nous la liberte’ to Luigi Meneghello, my old university professor at Reading.
The issue closes with a particularly full letters bag, with contributions by Lorenzo Tardella, asking for ‘A's opinion of Stirner's work, to which Massimo Ortalli replies; also, Emanuele Treglia writes on ‘the need for atheism’ and, on the NO TAV issue, Cosimo Scarinzi replies to Maria Matteo's article in no. 316, which in turn made reference to Scarinzi's in 315.

by Leslie Ray