Union of Socialists Unione dei Socialisti | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Ivan Matteo Lombardo |
| Founded | 8 February 1948 |
| Dissolved | December 1949 |
| Split from | Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity |
| Merged into | Unitary Socialist Party |
| Ideology | Social democracy |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| National affiliation | Socialist 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.
