Heirs of Avanti!
In 1996, an American company International Press created a daily paper with the name of L'Avanti!. However, with many financial difficulties the paper closed down.
After the American attempt, in 2003 Fabrizio Cicchitto and other former socialists re-constructed L'Avanti!. Although this Avanti! is formally neutral its ex-director was a close friend of another former socialist Gianni De Michelis secretary of the New Italian Socialist Party. The New PSI, in coalition with the centre-right, is an antagonist of the Socialists who found home in the centre-left coalition led by the Italian Democratic Socialists create an opposing weekly paper with the name of "Avanti della Domenica" which however ran out of funds and closed soon after.
In 2006, Fabio Ranucci becomes director and quickly defines the paper an independent "socialist" newspaper of information. However with the re-composition of the small often tiny socialist political formations into a new Socialist Party the paper strongly came associated with the latter.
The paper which lacks the structural and financial means of the old L'Avanti still manages to survive and like the old paper is associated with the modern-day Italian Socialist Party, although with more independence and neutrality.
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