Books: from the RSI to the meeting with Che Guevara, the ‘ardent life’ of Sergio Pessot

The experience of the Social Republic, the stay in Bolivia, the meeting with Che Guevara, the experiences of insurrections in Europe, South America and Africa and the attempts to give life to new and more varied political projects. It was an ‘ardent life’ that of Sergio Pessot, Genoese, born in 1931: a ‘novel’ lived between more than one era, which Pessot decided to tell in the autobiography “Son of the Sun”, published by Altaforte Editions (128 pages, € 16.00). “Son of the Sun” is the diary of an adventurous life, born “from the promise never to give up made by a boy from the White Flames, who witnesses the massacre of his peers at the hands of a partisan gang”. After his experience in the RSI, Pessot goes to fight with the South American guerrillas who oppose American economic imperialism, and it is there that he meets Che Guevara. Back in ‘his’ Argentina (his parents were Italian emigrants) he collaborates with the Ayuda Social organization of Evita Peron. Then, when he returned to Italy, in the 1950s, he became involved in the MSI, founded and directed the magazine “Hierarchy”, and became editor-in-chief of “Segnale”, the first right-wing magazine in Liguria. With Enzo Erra, Giano Accame, Piero Buscaroli is part of the most ‘heretical’ political current of the MSI, that of the Sons of the Sun. Then, having retired from politics, he dedicated himself to work in the agri-food industry, but without ever giving up his passions : mountaineering, underwater archeology, writing and politics, which in more recent years will bring him closer to Casapound.