Half a century later, introducing the third edition of "Cronache Operaie," he remembers," We were among the boys entered the factories in the early forties to replace the "cannon fodder" sent to front ."
In the spring of 1943, Lorenzo Parodi joined the strike in progress at Ansaldo, and in 1944, he was forced to leave the factory to escape the Nazi raids and deportation.
It is mainly "the refusal of Togliatti's opportunism" and the attempt "still confused to salvage the savable from the opportunistic wave that will block and overwhelm the class movement emerged from the struggle against fascism" the factors that will approach him and his group to libertarian and anarchist ideas.
Lorenzo Parodi supports the uprising in Budapest in connection with other significant events of that crucial 1956 (the Revolt of Poznan, the colonial war conducted in Algeria by the government of Guy Mollet, the Suez Crisis).
After the confluence of the GAAP, in spring 1957, in the group of "Azione Comunista" founded two years earlier by a "dissident" of PCI, Parodi is committed to the side of Arrigo Cervetto against the Maximalism of the group to attest an internationalist position, he presents with Cervetto, at the first conference of the Communist Left November 1957 in Livorno, the "Theses on imperialist development, the duration of the counter and on the development of the class party," that is now expressed in an organic strategic vision of the current Leninist.