This new issue of "A" has its orange cover devoted to schools, one of the themes looked at in depth inside; the back cover, on the other hand, advertises the opening of our archives - on the occasion of our thirtieth anniversary we have put back on sale the poster of Malatesta and the historical "readings" of Kropotkin, Bakunin, Malatesta and Proudhon, which were issued as supplements to the magazine in the early '70s, as well as "anarchists against fascism" from 1995 and T-shirts from the '80s reproducing a design by Germano Porro.

The "ai lettori" (to the readers) page illustrates the magazine's balance-sheet, which, thanks to the slush fund, closes 2000 more or less balanced.

Maria Matteo's editorial entitled "Barracks Europe" discusses militarism and the European Union.

Adriano Paolella and Zelinda Carloni illustrate numerous - and in part unpublished - reasons for being against the construction of the Messina bridge.

"Between Punk and Lavallière" is the title of an interview by Boris Dinescu with an anonymous Mexican anarchist, accompanied by the presentation of the "Flores Magón Libertarian Project".

And then onto the schools special, illustrated by numerous photos, with the texts "Autonomy or Decentralisation?" by Francesco Codello, a head teacher, and "Autonomy or Management?" by Cosimo Scarinzi, which describes the current situation in Italy from the standpoint of a representative of the CUB teachers' trade union.
Added to these are two articles devoted to Lamberto Borghi, one of the most significant figures in Italian pedagogy, who recently passed away. Francesco Codello looks back over his ideas, while Goffredo Fofi, who edited his anthology La città e la scuola (The City and the School) (published by Elèuthera), remembers Lamberto Borghi's teachings on history and method.

The Macbeth performed in the Volterra prison yard by the Compagnia della Fortezza, made up of prisoners, is illustrated by Cristina Valenti, who takes this as a cue to reflect on the theatre of Armando Punzo.

Music and Ideas by Marco Pandin presents artist and musician Fluxus, Giuseppe Chiari, and his text "suonare la città" (playing the city) from the '70s.

The 15th Festival of Latin American Cinema is reviewed by Fernanda Hrelia, offering a panorama of the productions presented.

On the occasion of the publication by Eleuthèra of La sovversione estetica - Arte e pensiero libertario tra ottocento e novecento (Aesthetic Subversion - Art and Libertarian Thought between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries), the author Eva Civolani is interviewed by Maria Mesch.

The "fatti&misfatti" column contains the obituaries of Alberto Moroni (by Dino Taddei) and Gianfranco Bertoli (by the editors), as well as a brief description of the situation of the Pygmies in the Congo, by Gianni Sartori.

"A nous la liberté" by Felice Accame is devoted to Leda Rafanelli, the anarchist eccentric, and her relationship with Mussolini (when he was still a socialist).

Presented in the "Libertarian Review" are the film by Bruno Bigoni "Comizi d'amore 2000" inspired by the work by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the book Falsi da ridere by Vincenzo Sparagna, published by Edizioni Malatempora, while Nadia Agustoni tells the story of a homicide involving two women that happened in Turin in 1930, from the book Delitto a Torino. Stefano Giaccone recommends a book by Valerie Wilmer on the black revolution in jazz.

The postbag opens with Corrado Parisi's clear dissociation from those comrades who "vote for the lesser evil", followed by a letter from Fabio Canavesi and Marco Camenisch from Biella prison, while Patrizia "Pralina" Diamante and Horst Fantazzini write on the occasion of the imminent end to Horst's long prison history. The postbag closes with the letter sent by a total objector to military authority.