The cover of issue 329 shows the cooling
towers of a nuclear power plant, a strong visual image
to draw attention to the article by Massimo Varenga
about the worrying renewed cockiness among the advocates
of nuclear energy.
There is also a 16-page updated version of the dossier
by Adriano Paolella and Zelinda Carloni, "another
world is possible", reflections on the use and
consumption of goods.
A year after the school protests in Oaxaca in Mexico,
Claudio Albertani presents an extensive report with
photos on the situation there now. North of the border
and longer ago: the 80th anniversary of the killing
of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in
the USA is marked in an interview with Massimo Ortalli
by Daniele Barbieri.
To pay taxes or not to pay taxes, what the church and
others think is discussed by Carlo Oliva. Antonio Cardella
notes how the USA-based economic system tends to make
the rich richer; so what's new? Andrea Licata points
out that U.S. military bases are an attack on Italy's
citizens and the environment.
In “Fatti & Misfatti”: Francesca Palazzi
Arduini on the Vatican and the U.N.; a proposal by Angelo
Pagliaro to commemorate Francesco Barbieri, assassinated
in Barcelona 70 years ago; the A-Camp international
anarchist summer camp, in Austria; a message from Carmelo
Musumeci from Spoleto prison to all lifers in Italian
prisons, announcing the start of a hunger strike and
inviting them to join him.
Andrea Papi reports on a two-day meeting held in Modena
with a view to establishing a national coordination
among anarchists.
In "... e compagnia cantante", Alessio Lega
on Portuguese songwriter Jose Mario Branco. The libertarian
review has "Il poeta anarchico" by Erich Mühsam
reviewed by Jules Elysard (who elsewhere in the magazine
also contributes a poem, "The Gulls"), "La
Sinistra in guerra" by Gaspare and Roberto De Caro
reviewed by Alberto Prunetti; "I ribelli dell'Atlantico.
La storia perduta di un'utopia libertaria" by Peter
Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, reviewed by Riccardo Bonelli;
and finally, "Cose da museo" by Andrea Perin,
presented by the author himself.
Following a clash between squatters and police in Turin
in July 2005, this issue includes the defence by Tobia
Imperato in the proceedings held on 17 July 2007.
Nadia Agustoni reviews the letters of Etty Hillesum
to her sister in The Hague, written in 1942-43, published
by Adelphi.
Finally, Fabrizio Montanari on the historic meeting
between Garibaldi and Bakunin, plus letters from Lorenzo
Guadagnucci and Dom from Novara.
by Leslie Ray |