As announced in the last issue the lnternational Convention of Studies on the New Bosses, organized by this magazine and the Centro Studi Libertari « Pinelli » of Milan, was held in Venice from the 25 th to the 27th March. Laying aside false modesty, we consider the meeting to have been an important one. By the depth and rigorousness of the reports presented, it made a notable contribution to the understanding of « technobureaucratic power » which we considee it our duty as anarchists to study attentively because of the way it is spreading and the dangers it presents. The entire proceedings of the Convention will be published in ltalian by Edizioni Antistato. Starting with this number, however, Interrogations will publish in their originai language the most interesting of the articles which are in keeping with the moving spirit of this magazine. For our first selection we present studies by Amedeo Bertolo ( « Per una definizione dei nuovi padroni ») and by the late, lamented Louis Mercier Vega ( « Confluences et particularites latino-americaines » ). Mercier's article was prepared a year ago in anticipation of the Venice convention. Both works (the .first with particular reference to Italy, the second to South America) attempt what we might call an « overview » of the technobureaucracy as a whole. This is their main interest. Carlos M. Rama's work ( « La clase alta franquista espaiiola ») is of a more analytical character, but it provides the reader with a remarkable amount of information and insights with which to identify the new bosses in the contemporary Spanish situation. This number of Interrogations is completed by the first part of Nino Staffa's study ( « Technobureaucracy and city life ») which shows how the structuring of the great modern metropolises reflects the technobureaucratic nature of the ruling classes. The argument is centred on England but it can also be extended without great difficulty to other countries, and not merely European ones. The text we are publishing is the originai one, considerably longer and more documented than the version presented at Venice, which was necessarily much more condensed for public delivery. The second part will appear in no. 15. 6
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