On the usual page "ai lettori" (to the readers), which opens the magazine, we report the death of a ninety-year-old anarchist who lived in Michigan: he was an Italian immigrant, one of the many that gave rise to a vast Italian-speaking anarchist movement in North America between the end of the 19th century and the last decades of the century just passed: a movement that has now exhausted itself, but also contributed - among other things - to supporting our magazine financially in the first years of its life.
Globalization is the focus of two articles: Maria Matteo discusses the new "contro" movements in Italy, while Vittorio Giacopini analyzes the innovations that have been introduced into "political" action since Seattle. The cover dossier concerns world agriculture, famine, the policies of the multinationals, etc.: it is written by Zelinda Carloni and Adriano Paolella, the latter a key representative of WWF Italia.
A recurrent theme on the pages of "A" is that of gypsies and the attitude of the authorities (and people) towards them. This time "A" discusses the gypsies in Palermo, with three articles that reveal the usual contradictions and the repression that is not even particularly well concealed.
Mauro Macario remembers Victor Jara, the Chilean poet and songwriter, victim of the generals in the coup 30 years ago. Lilla Consoni interviews Teodora Ansaldo, a former lawyer who now devotes herself to dance. Maria Mesch presents the experience of alternative lifestyles and alternative technologies represented for over twenty years by the Ufa-Fabrik, in the heart of Berlin.
Anarchist thought, with its limits and perspectives, is the focus of an interview with Gianpiero Landi, one of the organizers of a Study Conference on Francesco Saverio Merlino, to be held in Imola (Bologna) on July 1st. At the turn of the last century, Merlino was a key anarchist figure, but he subsequently developed a critique of the revolutionary conception, moving closer to more "moderate" positions, without this meaning he ever moved fully away from anarchist socialism. An interesting figure, on whom to reflect, not only thinking of the past.
On the specific problems of agriculture and those who have chosen to live in the country, there is an article by the members of an anarchist commune in Puglia, the Urupia commune.
Other themes discussed in this issue of "A": an account of the 23rd Congress of the Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI); the proposal of an anarchist summer camp for this coming summer; four book reviews (on the Roma, immigration, repression, ideologies); three letters (one on the singer songwriter Fabrizio De André, a report on a case of solitude in prison, one against the Catholic Jubilee). And the usual column by Felice Accame.
Then we have the communiqués, the list of "A" sales outlets, subscriptions, a page advertising our "cousin" magazine Libertaria (a quarterly published by the same publishing house, although it is totally editorially independent).

translated by Leslie Ray