L'Unità

l'Unità

Front page, 5 March 2009
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Berliner
Owner(s)	Nuova Iniziativa Editoriale S.p.A.
Editor	Sergio Staino
Founded	12 February 1924
Political alignment	Communism (1924–91) Social democracy (1991–present) Parties: PCI (1924–91) PDS (1991–98) DS (1998–2007) PD (2007–present)
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Circulation	20,937 (April 2014)
ISSN	0391-7002
Website	http://www.unita.it/

L'Unità [luniˈta] is an Italian left-wing newspaper, founded as official newspaper of the Italian Communist Party. It has been supportive of that party's successor parties, the Democratic Party of the Left, Democrats of the Left, and from October 2007 until its closure, the Democratic Party. The newspaper closed on 31 July 2014. It was restarted on 30 June 2015.

L'Unità was founded by Antonio Gramsci on 12 February 1924 as the "newspaper of workers and peasants", the official newspaper of Italian Communist Party (PCI). The paper was printed in Milan with a circulation of 20,000 to 30,000. On 8 November 1925, publications were blocked by the Prefect of the city together with Italian Socialist Party's Avanti!. After an assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini (31 October 1926) its publication was completely suppressed. A clandestine edition was resumed on the first day of 1927 with irregular circulation in Milan, Turin, Rome, and in France. Full publication was resumed after the Allied conquest of Rome on 6 June 1944, the new editor-in-chief being Celeste Negarville.

After the liberation from the German occupation, in 1945, new local editions were started in Milan, Genoa and Turin, the latter edited by philosopher Ludovico Geymonat. Elio Vittorini became the editor-in-chief of L'Unità during this period. The newspaper's contributors included Davide Layolo, Luigi Cavallo, Ada Gobetti Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, Alfonso Gatto, Aldo Tortorella and Paolo Spriano. In the same year the Festa de l'Unità was launched in most Italian cities.