The cover of issue 281 is devoted to Franco Serantini, the young comrade killed by the police while detained in May 1972, 30 years ago this month. The centre of the issue contains a 24-page dossier, “Story of a Subversive (and an Assassination by the State)”, with contributions by Paolo Finzi, BFS, the Circolo F. Serantini, Franco Bertolucci and Corrado Stajano; there is also an interview by Franco Bertolucci with Corrado Stajano, who has written a book on Franco. The dossier closes with the ballad “Ballata per Franco Serantini” by Piero Nissim.
On the subject of murders by the state, in this month’s “Ritratti in Piedi” Massimo Ortalli focuses on Pinelli, and his fall from that 4th floor window at police HQ. There are extracts from Dario Fo’s “Accidental Death of an Anarchist”, “La strage di stato” by various authors, “Pinelli. Una finestra sulla strage” by Camilla Cederna, “Licia Pinelli. Una storia quasi soltanto mia” by Piero Scaramucci and “Bombe e segreti” by Luciano Lanza.

Recent weeks have been marked by the obscene violence in Palestine and Israel. The issue begins with a symmetrical condemnation of both Sharon and Arafat by the Gruppi Anarchici Imolesi. A letter by Paolo Boccadoro is very much of the same tenor. Another letter, by Marco Cagnotti, reflects on Swiss TV news, contrasting senseless vandalism by supposed anarchists with the commitment of journalists in Zimbabwe.

Carlo Oliva muses on what a great writer of “suasoriae” Berlusconi would be; these are Classical orations intended to persuade without any concern for truth. Antonio Cardella looks at the disaster in the process of being created by Berlusconi’s self-serving government.
There is a highly through-provoking article by Franco La Cecla about the disappearance of the bench, and the loss of freedom of assembly that this entails.
In his column, “a nous la liberté”, Felice Accame considers the dubious services of criminologists in identifying murderers, while in “smoke signals”, Carlo E. Menga discusses the national strike and matters directly and indirectly associated.
The issue closes with a report on libertarian Radio N’Guixó in Eloxochitlán in Mexico, translated by Fernanda Hrelia.

translated by Leslie Ray