to the readers

waiting for BrAssens

Debate. Someone wants to know the "official" anarchist opinion on the 15 October event in Rome, especially on street violence and repression? If the search here, it’s the wrong address: We do not record nor "give" the line, simply because this line, this unique position of anarchists, does not exist. And needless to seek. Readers in the academic year of the last issue we have attempted to clarify the importance we give to the confrontation of opinions and feelings than the frantic quest for a common position, which is often impossible and in any case we are not interested. This is demonstrated by the three writtings in the opening of this issue, signed by Massimo Varengo, Andrea Papi and Adriano Paolella. And, in their own way, even the intervention of Maria Matteo, the interview of Orsetta Bellani to Nicoletta Dosio ("historical" militant of the Susa Valley No-Tav, and member of the PRC) and the considerations proposed by Monica Giorgi after a trip to Barcelona between indignadas and indignados, contributing each with its own, different sensitivity to the interpretation of new knowledge and movements.
Providing food for thought, stimulating debate and contributing to, look at the history of always keeping in mind the maxim that "experience is the thing that ensures that you can not repeat old mistakes, but to help make others." With an open mind, with irony and self-irony. That never hurts, even - and especially - when the going gets tough (and famous tough get going).

Urupia. Just less than 17 pages of this issue are devoted to the common Urupia, an experience of self-management and alternative agro-food industry of which we have repeatedly written on "A". Last summer, "our" photographer Roberto Gimmi is gone there, to produce a service predominantly of images that can be found on pages 114-130. With even the record of the week spent there: a week of photos and work, because the Communards (and then read page. 120 why do you call it that) was right not to make discounts to anyone. If you want to go, you must participate in some way to the collective work. Rule that applies to everyone, even for "A" photographers. If Robert had known it before going...

Brassens. Brassens. The year 2011 was also the year of Georges Brassens. At 90 years after the birth and 30 from death, the French singer was remembered with a number of initiatives, not only in France. The principal was undoubtedly, in Paris, the exhibition dedicated to him. In the area closest to our staff, that is, in Milan, many evenings were organized by the friends and comrades of the circle ARCI "The Scighera" (by the way, you can read his story, written by Dino Taddei, one of its founders, to pages. 71-77).
And with two of Scighera, Laila and Lorenzo Valera Sage, we are preparing a dossier on Brassens that should come out in "A" 369 (March 2012). If any of our readers have ideas and proposals, do you leave them with our staff. As always, we are open to the contribution of all (and then someone invented the trash can and we can always take advantage ...).
About the exhibition in Paris, Laura Monferdini - will reopen, on 18 February, the historic shop in Via del Campo, in the heart of Genoa, for years has been mainly dedicated to our friend Fabrizio De André (and now called Via del Campo 29 red) - has visited and wrote for "A".