The “issue” in issue 300 is the debate on trades unionism and bureaucracy, which continues from issues 298 and 299. Cosimo Scarinzi chairs the 15-page debate, which includes interventions from several speakers/writers.
This issue opens with an article by Massimo Ortalli, exploring the link between anarchism and its voice, the anarchist press.
Antonio Cardella reports on the mess that Berlusconi is on over the Italian hostages in Iraq. And speaking of Iraq, Maria Matteo discusses the “banality of evil” as shown by the images of torture and humiliation in Abu Ghraib prison, while Carlo Oliva reports on a truly scary, shadowy organisation, SCUDO (Security Consulting United Didactics Organization), whose role, apparently, is to train us to protect ourselves against terrorism; but who will protect us against SCUDO?
A real coup for this issue is the interview with famous sci-fi writer Ursula Le Guin, by Lawrence Jarach, Leona Benten and L.D. Hobson of Anarchy magazine.
Francesco Codello grapples with the question of what a unified Europe could mean to anarchists.
Students of Italian politics will be aware that no neo-fascist is ever ultimately found guilty of planting the many bombs that have killed and maimed indiscriminately, such as Piazza Fontana on 12 December 1969, in the macabre dance that is the Italian legal system; Luciano Lanza reports on yet another whitewash, the acquittal on appeal of three neonazis convicted of the crime in 2001.
There is also an extract from the book “La pena disumana” by Ahmed Othmani, on, among other things, the genocide in Rwanda, published on the tenth anniversary of the horrors there.
In “Fatti & Misfatti”, Filippo Transatti remembers libertarian writer Giuseppe Pontremoli, who recently passed away.
This month in “... e compagnia cantante”, Alessio Lega looks at the work of Serge Gainsbourg. Also on the subject of music, in his regular “Musica & Idee” column, Marco Pandin reviews the new CD, “Tranzition”, by Richard Pinhas.
In the middle of the issue, to “pull out and keep”, is a collection of the writings of Errico Malatesta.
In “à nous la liberté”, Felice Accame discusses the problem posed by laughter for catholic theologians.
Closing the issue, as usual, the letters pages, with contributions by Alessandro Milazzo and Alba Antonelli.

by Leslie Ray