Unitary Socialist Party (Italy, 1922)

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Unitary Socialist Party
Partito Socialista Unitario
Leaders Giacomo Matteotti
Filippo Turati
Carlo Rosselli
Giuseppe Saragat
Founded4 October 1922 (1922-10-04)
Banned11 January 1925 (1925-01-11)
19 July 1930 (1930-07-19) (de facto dissolved)
Split from Italian Socialist Party
Merged into Italian Socialist Party
Headquarters Rome, Italy
NewspaperLa Giustizia
Ideology Democratic socialism
Social democracy
Political position Centre-left
International affiliation Labour and Socialist International
Colors  Red

The Unitary Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Unitario, PSU) was a democratic socialist political party in Italy active from 1922 to 1930. Its outlook was reformist and anti-fascist.

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History

The PSI was founded on 4 October 1922 by the reformist wing of the Italian Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI). [1] The new party was led by Giacomo Matteotti, Vittorio Emanuele Modigliani, Rinaldo Rigola, Giacomo Treves, and Filippo Turati after they had been expelled at the PSI party congress in October. [2] [3]

A staunch opponent of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism, [4] Matteotti was assassinated by a fascist secret police squad on 10 June 1924, an event that provoked the Aventine Secession. Outlawed in November 1925, the PSU remained active as the clandestine Italian Workers' Socialist Party (Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani, PSLI). On 19 July 1930, the PSLI re-joined the PSI. Leading members and activists of the party included Anna Kuliscioff, Oddino Morgari, Sandro Pertini, Camillo Prampolini, Carlo Rosselli, Giuseppe Saragat, and Treves. The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International between 1923 and 1930. [5]

The same PSU name was adopted in 1949 after Saragat and others left the PSI. In 1969, a new PSU was formed following the split from the unified PSI and Saragat's Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Italiano Democratico, PSDI) and was favourable to the continuation of the organic centre-left governing coalition. This group reverted to the PSDI name in 1971. [1]

Electoral results

Chamber of Deputies
Election yearVotes%Seats+/−Leader
1924 422,957 (3rd)5.90
24 / 535
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References

  1. 1 2 "Psu". Treccani (in Italian). 28 July 2023. Retrieved 29 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Rinaldo Rigola (Biella 1868 – Milano 1954)". Museo Torino (in Italian). 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
  3. ↑ Brillanti, Claudio (2018). Le sinistre italiane e il conflitto arabo-israelo-palestinese: 1948-1973. Materiali e documenti (in Italian). Vol. 41. Rome: Sapienza Università Editrice. p.  230. ISBN   978-88-9377-098-9 . Retrieved 25 January 2024– via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Degl'Innocenti, Maurizio (2022). Matteotti, l'uomo e il politico (PDF) (in Italian). Rome; Florence: Fondazione Giacomo Matteotti; Fondazione di studi storici Filippo Turati. p. 25. Retrieved 30 December 2025– via Matteotti 100 nelle Scuole.
  5. ↑ Kowalski, Werner (1985). Geschichte der Sozialistischen Arbeiter-Internationale, (1923-1940) (in German). Berlin: VEB Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften. Retrieved 30 December 2025– via Google Books.
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