Rivista Anarchica Online

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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