Number 275 is the post-Genoa issue. A large dossier, comprising half the magazine, is devoted to analysis and comment on the violence of the police against the protestors, and to considerations on the anti-G8 movement. After a presentation of the dossier in the "ai lettori" editorial, Carlo Oliva highlights the success of the anti-G8 mobilisation, but at the same time points out its limitations. Francesco Codello describes his feelings in the days that followed the demonstrations, while Alessandro Martometti describes the events of 20th July from his own perspective. In their respective articles, Antonio Cardella and Adriano Paolella both comment on the Black Bloc and violence/non-violence in the movement, and the Black Bloc is also the subject of the article by Pietro Della Mea. A repudiation of the violence of both the police and the Black Bloc is signed by the "A" editorial team and a number of other active anarchist groups. Luisa Muraro discusses the effect on the anti-globalisation movement of its close encounter with its adversary, while Stefano Olimpi sees the irony of "power using anarchists to hit the movement".
Researchers Filippo Benfante and Piero Brunello, who are about to publish a book on the subject, discuss the links between demonstrations in the street and the football stadiums, while Luigi Veronelli brings the multinationals' attempts to patent seeds and life into the mix.
The final article in the dossier is one that appeared in a Genoan daily by writer Maurizio Maggiani, "Confession of an anarchist". The photos in the dossier are by Carlo Cattadori of the Cascina Autogestita Torchiera Senzacqua.
Yet the issue does not finish there. G.R. interviews Paolo Finzi on the extraordinary success of the CD+booklet "ed avevamo gli occhi troppo belli" (seven thousand copies sold in 3 months). Details of how to obtain the CD are also given.
In his regular column, "a nous la liberté", Felice Accame discusses the influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas on detectives and bankers. Pino Cacucci's article is on the Plan Puebla-Panama, the environmentally disastrous megaproject threatening to affect the whole Central American region.
The work of Uruguayan writer Carlos Liscano, permeated by his experiences in prison under the military dictatorship, is discussed by Fernanda Hrelia, who has translated some of his works into Italian.
In "libertarian review", Stefano Giaccone reviews CDs of Celtic music of Wales' Julie Murphy and Dylan Fowler, while in "Music and Ideas", Marco Pandin discusses another CD+booklet, Free Mumia Abu-Jamal, issued by AK Press, in aid of the campaign for Mumia's release.
In a new column, "Dalla palude" [from the swamp], Mario Bossi interviews Mirko Spino of Wallace Records.
In the first of another new feature, "Ritratti in piedi", on anarchist texts by writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Massimo Ortalli looks at the work of Pietro Gori, and a piece by Angelo Toninelli describing Gori's funeral. The life and work of Brazil's Jorge Amado, who recently passed away, is assessed by Giovanni Alioti. Again dealing with nineteenth- and twentieth-century anarchism, but this time the songs, is a book by Santo Catanuto and Franco Schirone; Mauro Macario considers the work, three songs lyrics from which are included.
In "Fatti e misfatti", Alessio Lega tells of the seventh festival of the music of Léo Ferré at San Benedetto del Tronto, and the Comunidad del Sur of Montevideo remember Alfredo Errandonea, who recently passed away. Fittingly, the issue closes with the "Smoke Signals" column, in which Carlo E. Menga discusses the meaning of a horse's ass.