This issue hosts a 20-page dossier on the massacre caused by the terrorist bomb in Piazza Fontana, Milan, and the subsequent killing by “defenstration” of anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli from the police HQ, 30 years after the tragic events occurred. Contributions by Patrizio Biagi, Paolo Finzi, Franco Fortini, Marcello Gentili, Bianca Guidetti Serra, Luciano Lanza, Piero Scaramucci, Guido Salvini and Carlo Smuraglia.
Another major feature, a conversation between Daniel Barret, an anarchist from Montevideo, Uruguay, and Moésio Reboucas of the Brazilian Anarchist News Agency (ANA), on the state of anarchism in Latin America today. Still on Latin America,
Pino Cacucci commemorates Mexican artists and thinker Vlady Kibalchich, who recently died.
The issue also contains an update on the NO TAV campaign in Val di Susa, by Maria Matteo. Two theoretical pieces: Cosimo Scarinzi on the tension between hetero-organization and self-organization, Francesco Codello on the cure for the “autism” of modern society.
Antonio Cardella looks at the political situation in Poland, and the crisis of the left there. In his second piece for this issue, Pino Cacucci considers the controversial figure of Iranian President Mahamoud Ahmadinejad. Considerably closer to home, Andrea Papi reflects on the Italian “primaries” to select the candidate - Romano Prodi - who is to represent the left in the coming general election.
In his usual “à nous la liberté” column, Felice Accame turns to the subject of Voltaire, and the recently published essay on him by Alan Dershowitz, “Rights from Wrongs”.
In the libertarian review, Alfonso Amendola on “God's Thumb”, by makinef, and Patrizia “Pralina” Diamante on “L'uomo con la testa piena di film”, a documentary by Massimo Fallai.
And after last month's featured poetry, this month a page with a short story by Olga Foti, entitled “L'Incontro” (The Encounter).
In “Fatti & Misfatti”, Nadia Agustoni and Germana Gemignani present a declaration by the Zapatista Lesbians of Mexico following the VI Declaration of the Selva Lacandona. And a report on the monument recently installed in Mel (Belluno) to Angelo Pellegrino Sbardellotto, the young anarchist shot by firing squad by the fascists in 1932 for attempting to assassinate Mussolini.
In “... e compagnia cantante”, Alessio lega returns to the figure of Léo Ferré, and also offers an evaluation of that other great singer-songwriter, Sergio Endrigo.
As is customary, the issue closes with the letters page, which this month has Andrea Papi joining the debate on the presumed weakness of the anarchist movement (a statement affirmed by Francesco Codello and challenged by Maria Matteo).
by Leslie Ray |