Welcome to issue 296! Unlike Parmalat, there is
no scandal about Carlo Oliva beginning this issue, with
an article on the (mis-)use of the term “terrorism”
by those holding power. Antonio Cardella comments on
the Parmalat scandal in fact, and identifies a deeper,
irremediable corruption in the capitalist system.
Cosimo Scarinzi looks at the significance and implications
of the “wildcat” strike action by Italy’s
transport workers, then Maria Matteo links this theme
with the struggles in support of migrant workers and
against military actions.
Once again there is discussion of the Israel/Palestine
question in this issue: Francesco Codello argues in
favour of equality and coexistence against separation.
A stimulating article by Stefano Boni, “against
identities”, criticising the tendency to label
people and be labelled by them. Equally thought-provoking
is a contribution by Andrea Papi, claiming that nonviolence
should not be an essential position for anarchists,
who should rather seek to be “anti-violent”.
In the regular “Fatti & Misfatti” column
we have an overview by Lorenzo Guadagnucci of Lula’s
successes and failures as president of Brazil, plus
two reports on the Malatesta conference in Naples. Speaking
of Malatesta, Massimo Ortalli interviews Giampietro
“Nico” Berti about his recently published
“definitive” biography of the great figure
of Italian anarchism.
Ten years after the Chiapas rebellion, a major piece
on the situation in the region today by Marco Gastoni
of PaviainserieA.
In his “à nous la liberté”
column, Felice Accame looks at the legacy of Lewis Carroll’s
“Alice in Wonderland”.
From literature to music, and “... e compagnia
cantante”, which this month looks at the work
of Jean-Roger Caussimon.
The centre of this month’s issue is filled with
one of those in-depth reports that Adriano Paolella
does so well, this time with huge scope (and height),
covering climate change and skyscrapers.
In the “libertarian review”, Francesca “Dada”
Knorr reviews “Poesia di corpo e di parole”,
poems by Nadia Agustoni.
Paolo Finzi presents the newly published first volume
of the “Dizionario Biografico degli Anarchici
Italiani”, followed by a reproduction of the introduction
to the book by Maurizio Antonioli, Giampietro Berti,
Santi Fedele and Pasquale Iuso, with the inclusion of
a number of biographical data sheets and photos.
There follows an interesting exchange: the reproduction
of an article published in Panorama by Adriano Sofri,
one of Italy’s most famous prisoners, entitled
“dedicated to my teacher”, written in response
to the dossier on Ivan Illich in issue 294 of “A”
by Filippo Trasatti, followed by the response of the
“teacher” himself, Pietro Toesca.
The letters page contains a rant by yours truly about
the article by Christian Ferrer on Patagonia, which
appeared in issue 292, plus letters by Fulvio Perillo
and by Dario Sanniti, the latter prompted by an article
by Andrea Papi, to which Andrea in turn replies.
by Leslie Ray
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