No. 283 is the bumper 88-page summer 2002 issue. In this issue - along with much, much more, of course - there is a 24-page pull-out dossier by Adriano Paolella and Zelinda Carloni on the control of natural resources.

Carlo Oliva wonders if President Ciampi is a racist, after some unjudicious statements made by him about immigration in Morocco. On a related subject, there is also an interview with Italo Siena on his work at the Naga-Har Centre for Asylum-seekers/Refugees/Victims of Torture.

And as part of the international campaign against the death penalty, Thomas Joe Miller-El tells about a the casual cruelty of a day as a prisoner on death row in Texas.

Plus a poster reproducing the cover of the magazine from February 1971.

by Leslie Ray