«We will be a Pd area newspaper. The M5S? It’s right-wing»- Corriere.it

The slogan will be this: “Come back Gramsci, come back the Unit”, solemnly announces Piero Sansonetti, who will be the director of this resurrection (the fourth) of the newspaper founded by the father of the Italian Communist Party 98 years ago: on February 12, 1924. Alfredo Romeo, king of procurement stumbled in more than one investigation ( Consip included), has just bought the newspaper at the bankruptcy auction, after the collapse of the Renzi era. The winning offer? About 910 thousand euros, at the last plunge.

Director, so the glorious communist sheet will be reborn in a liberal pro-Calenda version, as is rumored?

But let’s not talk nonsense. the Unit and will be the Unit. It will be a left-wing newspaper, which is currently lacking in Italy.

Will you also be back on newsstands?

Sure! We should be there in mid-January: a site and paper newspaper, for debate and comparison between different ideas. Twelve or sixteen pages and a dozen journalists. Let’s start in small steps. I was saying that “Gramsci is back”: guarantees and class struggle, adapted to the times, of course. The headquarters will be in via della Pallacorda, in Rome, in the publisher’s building where it is also located The Reformistwhich I am directing today and which will have a new guide.

A homecoming for her…

What’s more: at the age of 71 my life’s dream comes true. TO the Unit I’ve worked there for more than 30 years. I covered all possible roles, up to co-director.

He said that the left doesn’t have a newspaper.

there The poster, but… Ours will be a very leftist newspaper. The Democratic Party will be our reference party, but rest assured that we will claim autonomy from it. And we will have relations with all the centre-left parties.

So also with the M5S?

The right-wing movement has nothing to do with the left. They are indifferent and populists: they have approved the security decrees with the League, something that cannot be more right-wing. We are for true progressivism, not for “handcuffs”.

Key word of this new resurrection?

Socialism. We must restore strength to this word, at any cost. Our main columnist will be Michele Prospero, a Marxist philosopher: the Democratic Party cannot be saved if it does not return to socialism.