Partito dei Lavoratori Italiani
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Italian Socialist Party
Partito Socialista Italiano |
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| Founders |
Filippo Turati Andrea Costa Anna Kuliscioff |
| Leaders |
Filippo Turati Nicola Bombacci Costantino Lazzari Pietro Nenni Sandro Pertini Francesco De Martino Bettino Craxi Giuliano Amato |
| Founded | 14 August 1892 |
| Dissolved | 13 November 1994 |
| Merger of |
Italian Labour Party Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party |
| Succeeded by | Italian Socialists |
| Newspaper | Avanti! |
| Membership (1991) | 674,057 |
| Ideology | Before 1945: Socialism Revolutionary socialism From 1945 to 1976: Democratic socialism Socialism After 1976: Social democracy |
| Political position | Before 1945: Far-left From 1945 to 1976: Left-wing After 1976: Centre-left |
| National affiliation |
Popular Democratic Front (1947–1948) Organic Centre-left (1962–1976) Unified Socialist Party (1966–1971) Pentapartito (1980–1993) Alliance of Progressives (1994) |
| European affiliation | Party of European Socialists |
| International affiliation | Socialist International |
| European Parliament group | Party of European Socialists |
| Colours | Red |
The Italian Socialist Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Italiano, PSI) was a socialist and later social-democratic political party in Italy. Founded in Genoa in 1892, the PSI dominated the Italian left until after World War II, when it was eclipsed in status by the Italian Communist Party. The Socialists came to special prominence in the 1980s, when their leader Bettino Craxi, who had severed the residual ties with the Soviet Union and re-branded the party as "liberal-socialist", served as Prime Minister (1983–1987). The PSI was disbanded in 1994 as a result of the Tangentopoli scandals. Prior to World War I, future dictator Benito Mussolini was a member of the PSI.
The Italian Socialist Party was founded in 1892 as the Partito dei Lavoratori Italiani (Party of Italian Workers) by delegates of several workers' associations and parties, notably including the Italian Labour Party and the Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party. It was part of a wave of new socialist parties at the end of the 19th century and had to endure persecution by the Italian government during its early years. On September 8, 1893, while in Sicily the Fasci Siciliani were spreading, the Italian Workers' Party was celebrating its second congress in Reggio Emilia and decided to adopt the name of Italian Socialist Party.
At the start of the 20th century, the PSI chose not to strongly oppose the governments led by five-time Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti. This conciliation with the existing governments and its improving electoral fortunes helped to establish the PSI as a mainstream Italian political party by the 1910s.
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