The cover of the December 2000 / January 2001 double issue is devoted to the slavery still present in many parts of the world, accompanied by two interviews by Gianni Sartori: with Joe Buttigieg on the Sudan and Chiek Saad-Bouth Kamara on Mauritania.

As you can read on the "to our readers" page, this issue marks A's 30th birthday! The first issue went out in February 1971, after a period of preparation that began after the massacre in Piazza Fontana and the murder of anarchist railway worker Giuseppe Pinelli.
At this point the article by Luciano Lanza, which discusses the proposal by the chair of the Massacre Investigation Commission to wipe the slate clean on the "strategy of tension" seems to have been chosen on purpose.

On the occasion of the end of the Jubilee, Massimo Ortalli sums up this event and its consequences, while the reflections by Carlo Oliva concern the politicians' jubilee and Felice Accame draws inspiration from the latest revelations on the death of Descartes to write on Protestants and Catholics.

Veneto, its masters and its social problems are the focus of the article by Francesco Codello.
Cubatao, in Brazil, is the most polluted city in the world; Massimo Annibale Rossi explains why.
Maria Matteo analyzes current opinion regarding the inevitability of capitalism, present even within the anti-globalization movements.

In "Free yes, but to pay the SIAE (Italian Authors' and Publishers' Association)", Giuseppe Vergani discusses copyright, with its economic, social and cultural implications, while Rinaldo Boggiani looks back on the history of the journalists' register, dating back to the fascist era.
Again on the theme of the mass media and control over communication, there is also a text by Noam Chomsky, from an interview with the Z.Media Institute.
"Smoke signals" by Carlo Menga deals with scrambling and decoders.

There is a triple space for music in this issue: Marco Pandin reviews Arbe Garbe and Filippo Gambetta; while Mario Bossi tells us about the Folk Island of Suisio.
De André is the focus of the article by Romano Giuffrida, entitled "Between Tolstoy, Stirner and Pasolini".

Francesco Bere gives a detailed illustration of the history of the failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by Angelo Sbardelotto.
This time the "Flash" page tells of the murder of Filippo Pernisa, accompanied by the historical photo of the funeral.

"Holy Sister Soldier" is the title of the bitter-ironic considerations on feminism by Francesca "Dada" Knorr.

On the occasion of the publication, by the Elèuthera publishing house, of what Kurt Vonnegut states is his "last" book, we publish two excerpts from: "God bless You Dr Kevorkian".

The chronicles of "Fatti e Misfatti" begin with the "discussion notes" presented by Andrea Perrone and Carmelo Musumeci from Voghera Prison, followed by a recollection of Luciano Bergonzini by Gianpiero Landi, as well as "the women's world march" by Francesca "Dada" Knorr.

Among the letters, we must mention the one by Franco del Moro telling of his trials and tribulations trying to order a book by a small publisher on a major Internet site and the one by Guido Lagomarsino, which could be defined as the conclusive one concerning the polemics raised by J.- J. Gandini's review of the book on cannibalism in China. The anarchists of La Brianza remember Pier Luigi Magni, while Giuseppe Gozzini, the first Catholic conscientious objector, explains his opinions on the abolition of military service.

translated by Leslie Ray