The cover of issue 329 shows the cooling towers of a nuclear power plant, a strong visual image to draw attention to the article by Massimo Varenga about the worrying renewed cockiness among the advocates of nuclear energy.

There is also a 16-page updated version of the dossier by Adriano Paolella and Zelinda Carloni, "another world is possible", reflections on the use and consumption of goods.

A year after the school protests in Oaxaca in Mexico, Claudio Albertani presents an extensive report with photos on the situation there now. North of the border and longer ago: the 80th anniversary of the killing of anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the USA is marked in an interview with Massimo Ortalli by Daniele Barbieri.

To pay taxes or not to pay taxes, what the church and others think is discussed by Carlo Oliva. Antonio Cardella notes how the USA-based economic system tends to make the rich richer; so what's new? Andrea Licata points out that U.S. military bases are an attack on Italy's citizens and the environment.

In “Fatti & Misfatti”: Francesca Palazzi Arduini on the Vatican and the U.N.; a proposal by Angelo Pagliaro to commemorate Francesco Barbieri, assassinated in Barcelona 70 years ago; the A-Camp international anarchist summer camp, in Austria; a message from Carmelo Musumeci from Spoleto prison to all lifers in Italian prisons, announcing the start of a hunger strike and inviting them to join him.

Andrea Papi reports on a two-day meeting held in Modena with a view to establishing a national coordination among anarchists.

In "... e compagnia cantante", Alessio Lega on Portuguese songwriter Jose Mario Branco. The libertarian review has "Il poeta anarchico" by Erich Mühsam reviewed by Jules Elysard (who elsewhere in the magazine also contributes a poem, "The Gulls"), "La Sinistra in guerra" by Gaspare and Roberto De Caro reviewed by Alberto Prunetti; "I ribelli dell'Atlantico. La storia perduta di un'utopia libertaria" by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, reviewed by Riccardo Bonelli; and finally, "Cose da museo" by Andrea Perin, presented by the author himself.

Following a clash between squatters and police in Turin in July 2005, this issue includes the defence by Tobia Imperato in the proceedings held on 17 July 2007.

Nadia Agustoni reviews the letters of Etty Hillesum to her sister in The Hague, written in 1942-43, published by Adelphi.

Finally, Fabrizio Montanari on the historic meeting between Garibaldi and Bakunin, plus letters from Lorenzo Guadagnucci and Dom from Novara.

by Leslie Ray