Proletarian Unity Party (Italy)
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Proletarian Unity Party
Partito di Unità Proletaria |
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| Founded | 1972 |
| Dissolved | 1984 |
| Merged into | Italian Communist Party (PCI) |
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Communism Socialism |
| Political position | Far-left |
The Proletarian Unity Party (Italian: Partito di Unità Proletaria, PdUP) was a political party in Italy.
The PdUP was founded in the November 1972 by minority factions of two parties, the socialist Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity (PSIUP), led by Vittorio Foa, and Silvano Miniati, and the Catholic left Political Movement of Labourers (MPL), led by Giovanni Russo Spena and Domenico Jervolino, who had opposed the merge into the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). Its symbol was the hammer and sickle over the world.
In 1974 these members were joined by the group of Il Manifesto and by the Autonomist Student Movemenet led by Mario Capanna, forming the Proletarian Unity Party for Communism (in Italian called Partito di Unità Popolare per il Comunismo). The founding congress was held on January 29, 1976. Main leaders of the various currents were Miniati, Foa, Capanna (far left-oriented), Rossana Rossanda and Lucio Magri - leaning for collaboration with the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and Italian General Confederation of Labour) - and Luigi Pintor. Magri was elected as the group's first national secretary.
During the 1976 general elections, PdUP ran together with Proletarian Democracy, gaining 3 seats in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (Magri, Eliseo Milani and Luciana Castellina) elected out of the coalition's 9.
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