The cover of issue 341 signposts a feature by Andrea
Papi and Rivista Eutopia on “Greece in revolt”.
Elsewhere in the issue there is also a photo of a demonstration
in Mexico City to condemn the killing of Alexandros
Grigoropoulos by the forces of law and order.
Not surprisingly, this issue also contains contributions
marking the arrival of the new incumbent in the Oval
Office, a certain Barack Obama: an article by Antonio
Cardella, and letters by Gianni Corini, Giorgio Barberis
(there is also a letter from Gianpaolo Cherchi not about
Obama).
Daniel Barrett reports on the situation of the social
movements in Evo Morales’ Bolivia. Also sadly
in the news again, Gaza; Maria Matteo reports.
Carlo Oliva on the bizarre assertion of senator Marcello
Pera that “there is no liberalism without God”.
And in this time when education in Italy is under attack,
an article on/by “Students on the Verge of a Crisis”
with photos by Roberto Gimmi.
In “Fatti & Misfatti”, the Gruppo Anarchico
di Ragusa demands the town’s freedom from religious
symbols; Francesco Caputo reports on an exhibition of
the “documents of protest 1968-1977” at
the Fondazione Biblioteca di Via Senato. Carlo De Maria
reports on a day of study in Reggio Emilio dedicated
to Giovanna Caleffi Berneri. There is a photoreportage
of the twin plaques placed in Alessandria by the Committee
of Chilean Workers in Exile commemorating the murders
of Giuseppe Pinelli in Milan in 1969 and of Mapuche
anarchist Jhonny Cariqueo Yanez in Santiago in March
2008.
The issue contains a reproduction of the front page
of an issue of “A” from 27 years ago.
Patrizia Chiesa and Alessio Lega present a dossier on
the work of singer-songwriter Piero Ciampi, to mark
the recent publication of the volume “Piero Ciampi
- discografia illustrate”, including an interview
with Ugo Marcheselli.
Another book with a musical connection is presented,
Mauro Garofalo and Marco “Morgan” Castoldi,
on the latter’s musical career, “In pArte
Morgan”.
In the libertarian review, a presentation by Giampietro
Berti of Paolo Finzi’s new book “La nota
persona. Errico Malatesta in Italia”. Another
stalwart of “A” has a book published: “Attraverso
la tecnica” by Adriano Paolella. Mario Dellacqua
presents a book by Lorenzo Tibaldo on the lives and
deaths of Sacco and Vanzetti, “Sotto un cielo
stellato”.
Patrizia Diamante presents a not entirely serious review,
with images, of the not entirely serious book by Antonio
Castronuovo on Angelo Fortunato Formíggini, whose
suicide 70 years ago was a grand anti-fascist gesture,
“Libri da ridere. La vita, i libri e il suicidio
di Angelo Fortunato Formíggini”
In “à nous la liberté”, another
book, Musil’s “A man without qualities”,
is considered by Felice Accame, along with a gathering
in 1966 of “capelluti d’Italia” (Italy’s
longhairs).
There is a poem by Fabio Conti devoted to those who
die due to accidents in the workplace.
Finishing the issue, appropriately, a disquisition by
Sebastiano Cammelli and Antonio Senta on the land at
the end of the earth, Tierra del Fuego, and Errico Malatesta,
who (almost) went there 120 years ago.
by Leslie Ray |