The cover of issue 338 shows the ruins of the Libera self-governed space in Modena. With an abundance of photos, in two articles Andrea Papi and Andrea Staid show that the space lives on.
In 1998 Marina Padovese passed away. She is remembered affectionately in articles by Gino, Francesca Palazzi Arduini, brother Stefano Padovese, Aurora Failla, Ileana Lucidi, Rino De Michele, Stefania Minozzi, Fabio Santin and Fabrizia Scaramuzza.
Summer in the city. Turin’s anti-immigrant paranoia, by Maria Matteo. And Milena Magnani on Italians’ view of the Rom and Sinti.
Carlo Oliva considers the “renewal” of the colour of the school smock, as ministers mess with schools. Still on education, Francesco Codello reports on the conference on democratic education in Leipzig.
Cosimo Scarinzi analyses the government’s current approach to public employees and absenteeism.
As the war between Georgia and Russia comes to a conclusion, Antonio Cardella reminds us that the seeds of the conflict lie in the USA-led NATO intervention in Kosovo nine years ago. Further back in time, Anteo tells the story of the Commune of Ovada (1970-71), a hippy experiment in Italy.
In “fatti&misfatti”, Giorgio Sacchetti reports on a memorial stone laid for Bernardo Melacci, poet and anarchist.
In this month’s “E compagnia cantante” Alessio Lega presents Russian bard Vladimir Vysotsky. There is a poem, “Il Muro”, by Angela Sacco.
Felice Accame, in “à nous la liberté”, discusses Smate President Renato Giuseppe Schifani, Nietzsche, F. Alberoni and the shadow of totalitarianism..
Forty years after the international anarchist conference held in 1968, a new book and a conference of the IFA in Imola.
In this month’s libertarian review, Alfonso Amendola reviews an introduction to Jean Vigo by Pino Bertelli, Nadia Agustoni reviews the photos of Ahman Batebi and Andrea Staid reviews both “Non vale la pena vivere per meno di un sogno” by Rino Ermini and “Cuba memoria sindacale”.
The regular feature “37 years ago” has the cover of “A” with the title “Valpreda is innocent”.
Giuliano Bruno committed suicide in Trieste in May, after being traumatised by an attack by fascist skinheads. Giuliano’s family had escaped Argentina during the dictatorship of the 1970s. He is remembered by Alberto Prunetti and by his grandfather, Argentine writer Osvaldo Bayer.
There is a beautiful dossier on the town of Carrara, so rich in anarchist history, with photos by Luca Vitone and text by Paolo Finzi.
This issue closes as usual with the letters pages: this month letters by Antonio Senta, Ronal Perono Querio and Fabio Nicosia, all of which replied to by Massimo Ortalli.

by Leslie Ray