The double dvd with booklet “A forza di essere vento. Lo sterminio nazista degli zingari” (The Strength of being Wind. The Nazist Extermination of Gypsies), recently produced by A Rivista Anarchica, is the main topic of the section dedicated to the readers that opens issue 230.

This issue of the magazine features two files: the first, written by the A editors, reminds Murray Bookchin, the American anarchist intellectual who disappeared in July 2006. The file offers articles by Silvia Ferbri, Simone Borselli, Peppe Sini, Beppe Caccia and by the Plainfield Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont, of which Bookchin was director for a long time. The photographs of Murray in Venice during an international anarchist reunion in 1984 and the bibliography of his published literature in Italy complete the file.

The second file is dedicated to the Hungarian Rising of 1956. There are articles by Patrizio Biagi, who is also curator of the file, Suzanne Korosi, and Andy Anderson. Of those tragical days there are also two accounts, one immediately close to the time of the events published by “Freedom”, and the speech the writer Albert Camus gave during an antifascist meeting in Paris in 1957.

On the facts concerning Hina Saleem, the young Pakistani woman killed by her father because she refused to adhere to Islamic traditions, there is an article by Carlo Oliva who reflects on the contradictions of multicultural societies.

Gianni Sartori interviews the lawyer Nicola Canestrini, one of the lawyers of the Social Forum for the Genoa 2001 lawsuit that treated particularly the use of CS gas against demonstrators. “Per un immaginario libertario” (For a Libertarian Imagery) is the title of the article by Andrea Papi that proposes some considerations on the Democratic Party in Italy and on the Middle East situation.

Spain of 1936 and the possibility of that historical experience of having useful information on the topic are the main themes of the article by Claudio Venza.

The space “fatti & misfatti” (Facts & Misfacts) has a contribution of the editors of the edizioni anarchiche ticinesi La Baronata which remember the recently deceased Spanish anarchist Jose Iglesias. To police storiesand literary turism Felice Accame dedicates his space “A nous la liberté”.

A new and free school is the theme of the first meeting of anarchist students on which this number gives an account publishing the conclusive relation.

Cati Schintu writes on the condition of women in Guatemala where each year hundreds of women are raped, tortured and killed.

Gianfranco Careri, responsible for the commission on International Relations of the Trade Unions Association of Italy (section of AIT), keeps account of the anarchist trade unionism internal debate in view of the next Congress in Manchester.

The pictures of Vincenzo Argento show the rievocation of the 1887 Matese Internationalist Movement organised by the Centro Escursioni Sannite.

The space “…e compagnia cantante” cured by Alessio Lega propose an interview to the “anarchy lyricist” Serge Utge Royo.

Antonio Cardella offers a contribution to the debate on Italian Intervention in Lebanon. The magazines will present two further appointments, a meeting dedicated to Alfonso Failla from the Federation of Anarchists of Sicily in the hundredth anniversary of its birth and a summit of studies promoted by the Bassanese Group of Intercultural Studies and from Circolo Libertario “Carlo Pisacane” on the topic “ Il secolo dei genocidi” (The century of genocide) .

by Cati Schintu (text) and Marco Miotto (translation)