This issue, with no less than 52 pages, opens with
information from the editors on distribution by activists
- and concludes with the usual inside back cover containing
all the distribution points.
The article by Maria Matteo, to which the cover is also
devoted, reflects on the importance of communication
in the movements demonstrating on the streets against
globalization, from Seattle to Prague, also including
the recent events in Belgrade.
This issue's interview is with the Brazilian psychoanalyst
Roberto Freire, looking back over part of his life,
his experiences and reflections on psychoanalysis that
have promoted him to move towards libertarian thought
and the development of a new group therapy technique.
The debate on anarchism and democracy continues with
some additions by Piero Flecchia to his last article,
alongside an in-depth contribution by Cosimo Scarinzi,
which reviews critically the text by Francesco Berti
published in the summer issue and the article "from
Malatesta to Togliatti" by Pietro Masiello on the
subject of fascism and democracy.
Again in homage to Luce Fabbri, in this issue there
is an essay by Margareth Rago, taken from the Uruguayan
periodical "Brecha", which, among other things,
considers the contemporary nature of Luce's thought.
Francesco Codello illustrates in detail the experience
of the "modern rationalist school" of Clivio,
created in the first two decades of last century and
inspired by the theories of Francisco Ferrer, the Spanish
anarchist pedagogist persecuted by the Catholic Church
and killed by the state.
The articles linked to the analysis of contemporary
society include one by Felice Accame, who, writing on
"Big Brother" and the signs of the zodiac,
highlights interesting inconsistencies, while, in his
"smoke signals", Carlo E. Menga offers reflections
on advertising.
Carlo Oliva analyzes the choices to be made by Adriano
Sofri following the latest shameful sentence passed
against him: not to ask for clemency and not to commit
suicide.
Alessandro Michelucci is prompted by the film "The
Patriot" to analyze the role of invaders.
The chronicles of "Fatti e Misfatti" include
the international meeting of libertarians held in Florianopolis
in Brazil in September (by Massimo Annibale Rossi),
and in Italy the "self-management" meeting
in Albenga, again in September (by Luciano Nicolini),
the "march for non-violence against all armies
and wars", from Perugia to Assisi, organized on
24th September by the Nonviolent Movement and the International
Movement for Reconciliation (IMR) (by Peppe Sini), the
conference "Work to Die For (deaths in the factory
and factories of death)" organized by Medicina
Democratica in Genoa (by Cosimo Scarinzi), as well as
reflections on the "trade in insecurity" in
Argentina presented by Leslie Ray and considerations
on the recent increases in fuel prices by Enrico Bonfatti.
Unusually, this issue also contains a short story by
Elena Petrassi.
Among the letters there is one by Piero Tognoli concerning
the investigation under way against him, under the notorious
article 270b, because of his friendship with Marco Camenisch.
There follows a letter of solidarity with Tognoli from
Marco Pandin and a further letter on cannibalism in
China by Jean-Jacques Gandini.
translated by Leslie Ray
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