They brandish crosses, sprinkle holy water and have grown in number from 20 to 300 in ten years. Orlando Radice charts the renaissance of Italys exorcists
Amid the clamours for censorship, celibacy and an end to teenagers' rights to confidentiality, Sally Feldman fulminates against the misguided moral crusaders
Dyab Abou Jahjah is thirtytwo years old. He was born in Lebanon, which he left at the age of nineteen for asylum in Belgium, even though he now happily admits that in reality he was an economic migrant. After holding a trade union position looking after the interests of migrant workers, he founded the AEL in February 2000. Rosemary Bechler met him in the old community centre in Borgerhout, the Moroccan district of Antwerp
Acid House inspired even the most unlikely ravers to brave the dance floor. But did it leave anything behind once the high was over, asks Caspar Melville
He has spent his life analysing and opposing injustice and inhumanity. Sociologist Stan Cohen talks to Laurie Taylor about torture, social control and our extraordinary capacity to deny