Emanuele Macaluso

In 1941, Macaluso joined the clandestine Communist Party of Italy (PCdI), which became known as the Italian Communist Party (PCI) in 1943, and took part in the Sicilian trade union movement.{{cite web|url=https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2004/03/05/macaluso-miei-50-anni-dentro-il.html|title=Macaluso: 'I miei 50 anni dentro il Pci'|work=La Repubblica|date=5 March 2004|access-date=18 October 2018}} From 1947 to 1956, he was regional secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour.{{cite web|url=http://www.rassegna.it/articoli/macaluso-la-cgil-e-la-sicilia-i-miei-anni-decisivi|title=Macaluso: "La Cgil e la Sicilia, i miei anni decisivi"|work=Rassegna.it|date=13 June 2017|access-date=18 October 2018|archive-date=18 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018201620/http://www.rassegna.it/articoli/macaluso-la-cgil-e-la-sicilia-i-miei-anni-decisivi|url-status=dead}}

In 1958, once elected to the Sicilian Regional Assembly,{{cite web|url=http://www.ars.sicilia.it/deputati/scheda.jsp?idDeputato=276|title=Biography on the Sicilian Regional Assembly's website|work=ars.sicilia.it|access-date=18 October 2018}} Macaluso was one of the creators of milazzismo, named after Silvio Milazzo, elected president of Sicily, which led to the birth of a regional government supported by the PCI, the Italian Socialist Party, the National Monarchist Party, and the Italian Social Movement. Macaluso's work was applauded by Palmiro Togliatti himself.{{cite web|url=http://espresso.repubblica.it/plus/articoli/2016/05/18/news/emanuele-macaluso-sicilia-addio-1.266100|title=Emanuele Macaluso: "Sicilia addio"|work=L'Espresso|date=18 May 2016|access-date=18 October 2018}}

In the party, Macaluso was a member of the wing called migliorismo, together with the future Italian president Giorgio Napolitano. In 1963, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, holding the seat until 1976, when he was elected to the Senate of the Republic; he left the Italian Parliament in 1992. In those years, he was a member of the PCI's political secretariat under Togliatti, Luigi Longo, and Enrico Berlinguer.{{cite web|url=http://www.repubblica.it/cultura/2014/03/14/news/macaluso_una_vita_difficile_io_comunista_in_galera_per_adulterio-80959518/|title=Macaluso, una vita difficile: "Io, comunista, in galera per adulterio"|work=La Repubblica|date=14 March 2014|access-date=18 October 2018}}

From 1982 to 1986, Macaluso was editor-in-chief of L'Unità. Macaluso was always critical of the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), which was formed in 2007 as part of a merger between the PCI's legal successor parties (Democratic Party of the Left and Democrats of the Left, PDS and DS, respectively) and Christian Democracy's left-wing successors like The Daisy, accusing it of lacking a strong identity. In his articles from the 2000s, Macaluso always supported the anchoring of a modern secular force of the Italian left to the values of European socialism. The main criticism he addressed to the PD, is related to the lack of socialist inspiration in the party's identity profile. In the 2010s, he was also critical of the PD's party leaders.{{cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.it/2017/01/30/emanuele-macaluso-alla-st_n_14489374.html|title=Emanuele Macaluso alla Stampa: 'Pd al capolinea, fra Renzi e D'Alema gara fra bugiardi'|work=L'Huffington Post|language=it|date=30 January 2017|access-date=29 September 2023}} He died on 19 January 2021 at the age of 96.{{cite web|url=https://www.repubblica.it/politica/2021/01/19/news/emanuele_macaluso-248084495/|title=Addio a Emanuele Macaluso, storico dirigente comunista"|work=La Repubblica|date=19 January 2021|access-date=19 January 2021}}

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• {{cite book |last=Macaluso |first=Emanuele |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cDoWAQAAIAAJ |title=Al capolinea. Controstoria del Partito Democratico |date=2007 |publisher=G. Feltrinelli |isbn=978-88-07-71029-2 |location=Milan |language=it|access-date=29 September 2023|via=Google Books}}
• {{cite book |last=Macaluso |first=Emanuele |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQxAAQAAQBAJ |title=Comunisti e riformisti. Togliatti e la via italiana al socialismo |date=2013 |publisher=Feltrinelli Editore |isbn=978-88-588-1435-2 |location=Milan |language=it|access-date=29 September 2023|via=Google Books}}
• {{cite book |last1=Macaluso |first1=Emanuele |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fG4WEAAAQBAJ |title=Comunisti a modo nostro. Storia di un partito lungo un secolo |last2=Petruccioli |first2=Claudio |date=2021 |publisher=Marsilio Editori |isbn=978-88-297-1066-9 |location=Padua |language=it|access-date=29 September 2023|via=Google Books}}

• Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian): [http://legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?cp=1&position=IV%20Legislatura%20/%20I%20Deputati&content=deputati/legislatureprecedenti/Leg04/framedeputato.asp?Deputato=d3550 IV], [http://legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?cp=1&position=V%20Legislatura%20/%20I%20Deputati&content=deputati/legislatureprecedenti/Leg05/framedeputato.asp?Deputato=d3550 V], [http://legislature.camera.it/chiosco.asp?cp=1&position=VI%20Legislatura%20/%20I%20Deputati&content=deputati/legislatureprecedenti/Leg06/framedeputato.asp?Deputato=d3550 VI], [http://www.senato.it/leg/07/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00001381.htm VII], [http://www.senato.it/leg/08/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00001381.htm VIII], [http://www.senato.it/leg/09/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00001381.htm IX], [http://www.senato.it/leg/10/BGT/Schede/Attsen/00001381.htm X] legislature.

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