Giorgio Bocca

Giorgio Bocca (born August 28, 1920 in Cuneo , † December 25, 2011 in Milan ) was an Italian writer and journalist .

Life

In his youth, Bocca was, like many of his contemporaries, an avid supporter of Mussolini and worked for a time for the local fascist weekly La Provincia Grande - Sentinella d'Italia .

At the beginning of 1943 he distanced himself from fascism and joined the Resistancea . He was, together with men like Tancredi Duccio Galimberti , Dante Livio Bianco and Benedetto Dalmastro , one of the founders of the partisan movement Giustizia e Libertà and commander of the 10th division that fought in Piedmont .

Towards the end of the war he resumed his journalistic activities and wrote for the organization's newspaper. After the war he wrote for the newspapers Gazzetta del Popolo and Il Giorno and the magazine L'Europeo .

Working as a journalist he also got into his writing. The main focus of his work was the illumination of social and societal backgrounds, which in his opinion were the causes of the social crisis and the resulting terrorism in Italy in the 1970s.

His books on terrorism and his interviews with the protagonists achieved great fame . He also wrote several books on historical subjects, including some on the partisan movement to which he himself belonged.

In recent years he has increasingly appeared as a critic of globalization , the rise of Silvio Berlusconi and US foreign policy .

Web links

• Addio al giornalista Giorgio Bocca. Anti-italiano tra passione e rigore . La Stampa, December 25, 2011 (Italian)