[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.

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.

She published works devoted to the history of Naples at the end of the 1700s and the events of the Neapolitan Republic.