Unitary Socialist Party (Italy, 1922)

Unitary Socialist Party Partito Socialista Unitario

Leaders	Giacomo Matteotti Filippo Turati Carlo Rosselli Giuseppe Saragat
Founded	October 1, 1922 (1922-10-01)
Banned	1 November 1925 June 19, 1930 (1930-06-19) (de facto dissolved)
Split from	Italian Socialist Party
Merged into	Italian Socialist Party
Headquarters	Rome, Italy
Newspaper	La Giustizia
Ideology	Democratic socialism Social democracy
Political position	Centre-left
International affiliation	Labour and Socialist International
Colors	Red
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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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The party was founded in November 1922 by the reformist wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) led by Rinaldo Rigola, Filippo Turati, Vittorio Emanuele Modigliani, Giacomo Treves, and Giacomo Matteotti, after they had been expelled in October.^[1]^[2] A staunch opponent of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism,^[3] Matteotti was assassinated by Fascists, affiliated to OVRA, in June 1924. The event 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). In June 1930 the PSLI re-joined the PSI. Leading members and activists of the party included Oddino Morgari, Sandro Pertini, Camillo Prampolini, Claudio Treves and Anna Kulischov. The party was a member of the Labour and Socialist International between 1923 and 1930.^[4]

Electoral results

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Election year	Votes	%	Seats	+/−	Leader
Chamber of Deputies
1924	422,957 (3rd)	5.90	24 / 535	–	Giacomo Matteotti

References

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^ "Rinaldo Rigola (Biella 1868 – Milano 1954)" (in Italian). Museo Torino. Retrieved 31 July 2022.
^ Brillanti, C. (2018). Le sinistre italiane e il conflitto arabo-israelo-palestinese: 1948-1973. Materiali e documenti (in Italian). Università La Sapienza. p. 230. ISBN 978-88-9377-098-9. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
^ Maurizio Degl’Innocenti, Matteotti, l’uomo e il politico, in Fondazione Giacomo Matteotti-Fondazione di studi storici Filippo Turati, Matteotti 100 nelle scuole, 2022, p. 25.
^ Kowalski, Werner. (1985). Geschichte der sozialistischen arbeiter-internationale: 1923 - 19. Berlin: Dt. Verl. d. Wissenschaften.

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