Luigi Pintor (18 September 1925 – 17 May 2003) was an Italian left-wing politician and journalist.

Biography

After spending his childhood in

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and acquiring the gymnasium license, at the outbreak of World War II Pintor left Sardinia to reach Rome with his mother and two sisters, where, shortly after, he learned of his father's death. He joined the

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in 1943 as a member of the Patriotic Action Groups, after learning that his brother Giaime was killed after stepped on a mine. On 14 May 1944, Pintor was arrested by the

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, tortured and imprisoned at

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, waiting for a death sentence; luckily, Pintor was freed one month later during the Liberation of Rome. After the end of the war, Pintor began his journalistic career at '' L'Unità'', becoming co-editor-in-chief of the Roman edition. He left the newspaper in 1965. A member of the Italian Communist Party, Pintor was very close to the left-wing of the party, led by Pietro Ingrao, and opposed Giorgio Amendola's project of unifying the

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with other left-wing of centre-left parties. After the 1968 election, Pintor is elected to the

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for the Italian Communist Party (PCI), which he left after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union. In 1969, Pintor was one of the founders, together with Lucio Magri, Rossana Rossanda and

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, of the left-wing newspaper '' Il manifesto'', where he was later appointed editor-in-chief from 1971 to 1975, from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1991 to 1995. In the 1980s, after having been a member of the Proletarian Unity Party (PdUP), Pintor was again elected to the

in the 1987 election as an independent on the PCI list, and joined the parliamentary group of the

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. After the end of his political career, Pintor continued to write for ''Il manifesto'' until his death on 17 May 2003, at the age of 77.

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*Files about his parliamentary activities (in Italian)
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legislature. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pintor, Luigi 1925 births 2003 deaths Politicians from Rome Journalists from Rome Italian male journalists Italian newspaper editors Italian partisans Italian Communist Party politicians 20th-century Italian politicians 20th-century Italian journalists Il manifesto editors 20th-century Italian male writers