Issue 299 has a 15-page dossier (or “dossiera”, according to its editor, Dada Knorr) on sex and parliament, looking at the laws on assisted procreation, prostitution and gay rights.

Another theme this month is the election: Francesco Codello on extending suffrage to children, and Andrea Papi on elections and abstensionism, in “the electoral puppet theatre”.

Also in this issue, Cosimo Scarinzi with the first part of his essay on trades unions, bureaucacty and alternative syndicalism, and Vinciane Despret previews her book on mutual aid in the world of wildlife.

by Leslie Ray