Emanuele Macaluso
Italian trade unionist, politician, and journalist (1924–2021)
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- Emanuele Macaluso (21 March 1924 – 19 January 2021) was an Italian trade unionist, politician, and journalist.
- From 1947 to 1956, he was regional secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour.
- In the party, Macaluso was a member of the wing called migliorismo , together with the future Italian president Giorgio Napolitano.
- In those years, he was a member of the PCI's political secretariat under Togliatti, Luigi Longo, and Enrico Berlinguer.
Emanuele Macaluso (21 March 1924 – 19 January 2021) was an Italian trade unionist, politician, and journalist.
Biography
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. From 1947 to 1956, he was regional secretary of the Italian General Confederation of Labour.
In 1958, once elected to the Sicilian Regional Assembly, 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.
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.
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