Union of Socialists
Unione dei Socialisti
LeaderIvan Matteo Lombardo
Founded8 February 1948
DissolvedDecember 1949
Split fromItalian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity
Merged intoUnitary Socialist Party
IdeologySocial democracy
Political positionCentre-left
National affiliationSocialist Unity

The Union of Socialists (Italian: Unione dei Socialisti, UdS) was a social-democratic political party in Italy.

The party was founded in February 1948 by Ivan Matteo Lombardo, former secretary of the Italian Socialist Party.[1] The UdS participated in the 1948 general election as part of the Socialist Unity coalition with the Italian Socialist Workers' Party (Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani; PSLI), which collectively received 7.1% of the vote for the Chamber of Deputies and gained 33 seats. However, out of them only Lombardo and Piero Calamandrei were members of the UdS.[2]

Lombardo was succeeded as the party's leader by Ignazio Silone in June 1949. In December of that year the UdS was dissolved into the Unitary Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Unitario; PSU), which itself subsequently merged with the PSLI to form the Italian Democratic Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano; PSDI) in 1951.

References

  1. Costanza Chimirri (2013). Tre amici tra la Sardegna e Ferrara: Le lettere di Mario Pinna a Giuseppe Dessí e Claudio Varese. Firenze University Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-88-6655-477-6.
  2. John Foot (2014). Modern Italy. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 235. ISBN 978-1-137-04192-0.
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