On the front page, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1961: “For those who only know your color, red flag, you must really exist, for him to exist: he who was covered with scabs is covered with sores, the laborer becomes a beggar, the Calabrian Neapolitan, the African Calabrian, the illiterate a hoax or a dog. Those who barely knew your color, red flag, are about to no longer know you, not even with their senses: you who already boast so much bourgeois and working-class glories, become a rag again, and the poorest one will wave you away." It is the new Unità, published by the real estate developer Alfredo Romeo, who bought it at a bankruptcy auction, and directed by Piero Sansonetti, former Unità, former Liberazione (Communist Refoundation), former Riformista guarantist version (now left in the hands of Matteo Renzi).
Red flag and anti-judicial guarantees. “JUSTICIALIST FRONT” First issue DY Leads on newsstands and online, 16 May. In the article, "Giorgia, Soumahoro and l'Unità", Sansonetti attacks (without naming them) Repubblica and Domani, the newspapers "of the crowded justicialist front", which have reconstructed the story of Giorgia Meloni by delving into matters relating to her family, he says that the right-wing newspapers were right to get angry about this, but reminds the right-wing newspapers that they did the same with the case of Soumahoro, a migrant who became a member of parliament, banned for an investigation into his mother-in-law and her reception centre. Sansonetti writes: “One of the reasons why L'Unità is returning to newsstands is this: to relentlessly fight a battle, a strong minority one, against the justice system and the oppression that the media-judicial army has been waging in this country for years. Real battles are not won by trying to destroy the reputation of opponents.
It is not with slime, with espionage, with support for the antics of a large part of the Italian prosecutors. Real battles require ideals, ideas and the ability to fight. Not to delegate to others, to the robes or to gossip journalists." SCHLEIN EFFECT The header is the historical one. The graphics are very elegant. The team of particular signatures: only one former member of the Unit (in addition to the director), Umberto De Giovannangeli, foreign correspondent, but already a collaborator of Sansonetti's Riformista guarantista. Then, Tiziana Maiolo, former manifesto, former Rifondazione, former Forza Italia, collaborator of the Riformista, the left-wing historian Marco Revelli, Laura Boldrini, former president of the Chamber, now Pd, Luigi Manconi, authoritative libertarian voice, from Lotta Continua to the Pd, Luca Casarini, leader of the anti-globalization movement.