[3][4] She joined l'Unità, the paper founded by Antonio Gramsci, becoming their foreign correspondent in Algiers and Paris.

[1] Returning to Italy in 1968 to stand in the general election as a candidate for Naples, she kept up a correspondence with Louis Althusser about both working-class conditions and local party management.

Though elected, her publication of the correspondence helped to ensure that the PCI did not put her forward for re-election in 1972.

She travelled to China for l'Unità, praising the Cultural Revolution in the resultant book, Dalla Cina: dopo la rivoluzione culturale.

[1] Macciocchi alternated work as an MEP to that of a journalist, writing for major newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, Le Monde and El País articles from the most diverse parts of the world, from Cambodia to Iran and Jerusalem.