At the centre of issue 311 is a 24-page dossier by Massimo Ortalli, “Leggere l'anarchismo”, which is an extended bibliography of books on anarchism issued in recent years, plus details of publishers where they are available. An invaluable resource. Also on the subject of anarchist publications, Guido Barroero offers some considerations on the last decade of the anarchist movement, together with the presentation of three books an anarchism: “Senza frontiere. Pensiero e azione dell'anarchico Umberto Marzocchi” by Giorgio Sacchetti, “Un comunista senza rivoluzione. Arrigo Cervetto dall'anarcismo a Lotta Comunista” by Giorgio Amico and Yurii Colombo, and “Anni tenza tregua. Per una storia della Federazione Anarchica Italiana dal 1970 al 1980” by Antonio Cardella and Ludivico Fenech.
It is Antonio Cardella again who offers some considerations on the right in Europe on the occasion of the national elections in Germany and the expected victory of Angela Merkel. Andrea Papi, on the other hand, explores radical alternatives to the system, following the G8 summit at Gleneagles. Anthropologist Stefano Boni and Alberto Prunetti offer some considerations on the anarchism of hunter-gatherer societies. The theoretical debate on anarchism continues with Maria Matteo's reply to Francesco Codello's opinions on the anarchist movement expressed last month.
In this month's “Fatti & Misfatti”, a message from the Italian support group for Thomas Joe Miller-El, on death row in Huntsville, Texas. There is also a report on the killing of 161 youngsters in Eritrea, plus Reporters Sans Frontières denounce collaboration between Yahoo Hong Kong and the Chinese police leading to the sentencing of journalist Shi Tao to 10 years' prison.
Francesca Palazzi Arduini, anticlerical par excellence, offers her view of new Papa Ratzinger and his doctrines.
This month the libertarian review has two poems by Jules Elysard, and the history of the Internazionale, “Non più servi, non più signori” by Cesare Bermani, is reviewed by Franco Schirone.
In “à nous la liberté”, Felice Accame looks at the Orwellian manipulation of language in relation to the recent terrorist (“bombist”?) outrage in London.
Closing the issue, a dossier in the “Ambiente e comunita'” series by Adriano Paolella looks from a different angle at the big numbers in The Economist's “World in Figures 2005”, plus there is a reply by Gianfranco Marelli to the opinions expressed last month in a letter by Mario Rui Pinto criticising Marelli's earlier piece on Portuguese poet José Saramago.

by Leslie Ray