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ROME. She left overnight at 96, all spent on one side of the barricade, the left. Rossana Rossanda, communist leader and later founder of the Manifesto, had returned to Rome for two years, tested by the ailments of her time but not with the spirit that had remained as a fighter. After a very long Parisian hiatus in which she had moved to follow the love of life, Karol, pushed her to return to Italy, it was the sovereign turning point of the country that had led to the birth of the greenish-yellow government after the elections, with Matteo Salvini suddenly becoming the domain of Italian politics. “I’m back to fight,” he said in an interview with Old Concept for the Republic. Her last public outing was with her lifelong friend and companion, Luciana Castellina, for an initiative in support of the Casa delle Donne in Rome.
“The girl of the last century”
The news of Rossanda’s death is given on the website of the Manifesto, the newspaper that she founded with Lucio Magri, Luigi Pintor and Valentino Parlato after being expelled from the Communist Party, disqualified, for heresy along with her colleagues. She was born in Pola in 24 and had participated in the Resistance, following in the footsteps of her teacher Antonio Banfi. She had told the long and passionate story of her life in a beautiful memoir, entrusted to Einaudi in 2005. “The girl of the last century”. Heretical but never repentant communist, Rossanda had returned to his militancy in the PCI, without reluctance recounting his disagreements with the leadership who also had high hopes in the intelligence of this young militant intellectual, so much so that she had been appointed head of Culture, a manned sector . strongly by the party secretary Palmiro Togliatti. A strong relationship that deteriorates until it breaks as a result of the student and labor movement and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, until the definitive break that in a dramatic direction leads to the irradiation of Aldo Natoli, Pintor, Magri, Castellina. In 1969, precisely to give voice to dissent, she founded the magazine Il Manifesto, which became a newspaper two years later. Rossanda becomes its director. The journalist and writer Rossanda was very critical of the PCI and especially of the countries of real socialism.
In the 1970s, an article on BR was much discussed. “Anyone who was a communist in the 1950s suddenly recognizes the new language of the BR, seems to be leafing through the family album: there are all the ingredients that were served in Stalin and Zhdanov’s courses of happy memory, The world, we knew then , is divided in two. On the one hand, imperialism, on the other, socialism, imperialism acts as the only power of international monopoly capital. Old or young, whether it is the type that runs the famous IBM, its scheme is pure old communism. Which leads to the conclusion that, on the other hand, the veteran communist is not the guerrilla. “Words that lead Emanuele Macaluso to replicate himself from the columns of Unity.” I don’t know what record Rossana Rossanda keeps, it is true that In it there is no photograph of Togliatti nor are there images of millions of communist workers who have lived through struggles, tribulations and even the contradictions of recent years, such a distortion of our positions by anti-communists left and right wing is truly impressive. ‘ In any case, Rossanda is also the only journalist who has interviewed Mario Moretti.
Rossana, elected to parliament in 1963, is also the first of the group to have been a city councilor. She had no children, a regret she admitted in recent interviews. Luciana Castellina, who was close to her until the end, so much so that she found her a rented house a few blocks from hers when she returned from Paris, tells how kindly she made fun of her at that time for having to take over the chores of home of their children. Except then to discover that Rossana was ironing the shirts of a niece who was staying in Milan. Strong woman and not a simple character Rossana in 2012 also left the Manifesto due to strong disagreements with the group that runs it.
