Emanuele Macaluso

Emanuele Macaluso (21 March 1924 – 19 January 2021) was an Italian trade unionist, politician, and journalist.

Emanuele Macaluso
Member of the Senate
In office 4 July 1976 – 22 April 1992
Member of the Chamber of Deputies
In office 16 May 1963 – 4 July 1976
Personal details
Born	21 March 1924 Caltanissetta, Kingdom of Italy
Died	19 January 2021 (aged 96) Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Political party	PCI (1943-1991) PDS (1991-1998) DS (1998-2007)
Occupation	Trade unionist, politician

Biography

In 1941, Macaluso joined the clandestine Communist Party of Italy and took part in the Sicilian trade union movement,[1] and from 1947 to 1956, he was regional secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour.[2]

In 1958, once elected to the Sicilian Regional Assembly,[3] Macaluso was one of the creators of so-called "milazzismo", named after Silvio Milazzo, elected president of the Sicilian Region, which led to the birth of a regional government supported by communists, socialists, monarchists and the Italian Social Movement. Macaluso's work was applauded by Palmiro Togliatti himself.[4]

In the party, Macaluso was a member of the meliorist current, together with the future President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano, and in 1963 he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, holding the seat until 1976, when he was elected to the Senate; he left the Parliament in 1992. In those years, he was a member of the PCI’s Political Secretariat under Palmiro Togliatti, Luigi Longo and Enrico Berlinguer.[5]

From 1982 to 1986, Macaluso was editor-in-chief of L'Unità.[5]

Macaluso was always critical of the centre-left Democratic Party which was formed in 2007, accusing it of lacking a strong identity.[6]

He died on 19 January 2021 at the age of 96.[7]

References

1. "Macaluso: 'I miei 50 anni dentro il Pci'". La Repubblica. 5 March 2004. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
2. "Macaluso: "La Cgil e la Sicilia, i miei anni decisivi"". Rassegna.it. 13 June 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
3. "Biography on the Sicilian Regional Assembly's website". ars.sicilia.it. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
4. "Emanuele Macaluso: "Sicilia addio"". L'Espresso. 18 May 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
5. "Macaluso, una vita difficile: "Io, comunista, in galera per adulterio"". La Repubblica. 14 March 2014. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
6. "Emanuele Macaluso alla Stampa: "Pd al capolinea, fra Renzi e D'Alema gara fra bugiardi"". The Huffington Post. 30 January 2017. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
7. "Addio a Emanuele Macaluso, storico dirigente comunista"". La Repubblica. 19 January 2021. Retrieved 19 January 2021.

External links

• Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X legislature.