Macaluso tough in the struggles to defend the weak but never guided by revanchism
Italics by Paola Sacchi
Perhaps even from the attendance at his funeral one can better understand, if there is a need in this case, who was a man. And that is Emanuele Macaluso who on Wednesday ended his long journey right where it started, the 20-year-old union in his Sicily. Macaluso, whose secular funeral took place Wednesday morning in front of the national headquarters of the CGIL where the founder Giuseppe Di Vittorio wanted him, had the honor that not only his "red" world gave him the last farewell of a former leading exponent then of the PCI, on the day of the hundredth anniversary.
To pay homage to him (in a ceremony attended by the President of the Chamber Roberto Fico), with his people, the heirs of his party, even personalities like Luca Cordero di Montezemolo who only had Ferrari, the great, international Italian excellence. . With Montezemolo also the former dc Pier Ferdinando Casini and Sergio D'Antoni. This is to say of the respect that Emanuele, the former trade unionist boy, a pupil of Girolamo Li Causi, crippled by the gunshots of the mafia in the Portella della Ginestra massacre, enjoyed even in worlds totally opposite to his. Because?
Probably because Macaluso, former of many things, trade unionist, politician, journalist, witty cursivist with the fanciful em.ma (nickname, which invented for him the historical journalist of the Unit and dean of parliamentary reporters Giorgio Frasca Polara, former spokesman of Nilde Iotti ), his hard struggles for social justice, for the rights of the unfortunates of the solfataras and of the countryside, he never lived with a revanchist spirit, of social envy. Instead, the son of a railway worker from Caltanissetta tried to "improve the lives of many, not a few", as was said by the Minister for the South Giuseppe Provenzano during the many memories in Corso d'Italia.
The doc "bestseller", the one who reproaches me, hired at the age of twenty in his Unit , for never having gone to Palermo by chance: "How? I went to Milan, very young and poor, but I couldn't live without having known or at least seen Milan for once ".
The extreme curiosity for the world far from him has always been the figure of Emanuele, the senator who at Palazzo Madama often conversed with his "colleague" Avvocato Agnelli, who was appointed senator for life. Macaluso once told me that the lawyer was very intrigued by the arrival of Senatùr Umberto Bossi. With his rolled Rs he said to him: "But this seems to me an authentic man, of the people." One of Emanuele's closest friends was the engineer Domenico La Cavera, former municipal councilor of the Pli in Palermo and first president of the Sicilian Confindustria, called Sicindustria, known as "Mimì", a man of an aristocratic family of barons, husband of the actress Eleonora Rossi Drago, muse of Luchino Visconti. There was also his Unit of almost one million copies yesterday morning in Corso d'Italia: in the front row, with many and many signatures of that newspaper, Carlo Ricchini, the former central editor and the former editor in chief Sergio Sergi who has collaborated with Emanuele until his last, intrigued, adventure on social media, on Facebook, on the threshold of more than ninety years.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/macaluso-duro-nelle-lotte-a-difesa-dei-deboli-ma-mai-guidato-dal-revanchismo/ on Fri, 22 Jan 2021 08:46:11 +0000.