The summer 2005 issue commemorates Giuseppe Pontremoli, writer, pedagogist and friend of “A” who passed away last year, with a selection of his writings and recollections by Fausta Bizzozzero, Cesare Pianciola and Roberto Denti.
In issue 296 Paolo Finzi presented the newly published first volume of the “Dizionario Biografico degli Anarchici Italiani”; now the publication of the second volume is marked with some extracts from the book, covering letters L-P.
Carlo Oliva comments on the list in the US magazine “Human Events” of the 10 most dangerous books in the world. Cosimo Scarinzi gives his impromptu view of the military parade for the Festival of the Republic.
Antonio Cardella considers the state of the European Union after the “No” to the Constitution by the French and Dutch.
“Fatti & Misfatti” has a report by Serena Vitale on a study day on “minor sources” at the Franco Serantini library in Pisa, and Maria Matteo gives the state of play of the NO TAV campaign in Val di Susa.
An article by Argentine Christian Ferrer on why anarchism is such an effective weapon for criticising power. And Francesco Codello on anarchist ideas and the movement.
Andrea Papi analyses the hypocrisy underlying Bush's statement that his mission is “no more tyrannies in the world”. On the more positive side of the USA, Simone Lanza pays a visit to the ISE, the Institute for Social Ecology in Vermont, founded by Murray Bookchin and Daniel Chodorkoff. And on the subject of social ecology, we also have the views of Peter Staudenmaier on how the economy of an ecological society would be organised.
Fabrizio Eva introduces the approach to geopolitical dynamics of 19th-century French anarchist geographer Elysée Reclus, in preparation for the conference to be held on this figure in October at the University of Milan-Bicocca. In “à nous la liberté”, Felice Accame looks at the complex figure of Florentine Giovanni Papini and his immersion in occultism.
In “... e compagnia cantante” continues his introduction to the work of Renaud.
There is an interview by Dino Taddei with Lorenzo Valera, who talks about the GAS, the solidarity purchasing groups and their growth in popularity.
Marcus Rediker introduces his recently published book “Canaglie di tutto il mondo” on the age of pirates, with the fascinating story of women pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
“Libertarian review” has a poem devoted to Luigi Veronelli by Jules Elysard, and Marco Pandin reviews “All'estrema destra del padre” by Emanuele Del Medico, in the links between catholic traditionalism and the radical right wing.
Two letters this time: Tommaso Vurchio on the nuclear waste market, and Mario Rui Pinto from Lisbon on José Saramago.

by Leslie Ray