With other progressive intellectuals she gave her support and authority as the director of the daily newspaper Lotta Continua (but did not contribute to the political direction) to guarantee freedom of expression and to allow the newspaper to publish. In 1972 however, she was put on trial (later acquitted) for an article on the assassination of Luigi Calabresi, following which she quit for not sharing the opinion of the paper. In the following years she joined the Partito Socialista Italiano[6]