Socialist Unity (Italy)

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Socialist Unity (Italian: Unità Socialista was the name of a social-democratic political alliance that participated in the key Italian general election of 1948, which decided the post-war direction of Italy.

Socialist Unity was formed by the Italian Socialist Workers' Party (Italian: Partito Socialista Democratico Italiano,of Giuseppe Saragat and the Union of Socialists (Italian: Unione dei Socialisti) of former socialist leader Ivan Matteo Lombardo. The party's anti-communist ideology precluded any collaboration with the communist-led Popular Democratic Front in the 1948 election.

Socialist Unity reached 7% of the vote for the Italian Chamber of Deputies, gaining 33 seats. In the election for the Italian Senate, where it ran together with the laicist Italian Republican Party, the Unity won 8 seats.

In the following years, the links between the members of the Unity became closer and the Italian Democratic Socialist Party was born.

v t e Historical Italian political parties (current parties)

Communist	Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party, Organisation of Communists of Italy (Marxist-Leninists), Proletarian Unity Party, Proletarian Democracy, Movement of Unitarian Communists

Socialist and social-democratic	Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party, Italian Labour Party, Italian Socialist Party, Independent Socialist Party, Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Labour Democratic Party, Social Christian Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Unified Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, Democratic Party of the Left/Democrats of the Left, Italian Socialists/Italian Democratic Socialists

Green	Green Lists, Rainbow Greens

Social-liberal	Radical Party (1877), Constitutional Democratic Party, Democratic Liberal Party, Reform Democratic Party, Italian Social Democratic Party, Italian Republican Party, Party of Italian Peasants, Action Party, Republican Democratic Concentration, Community Movement, Radical Party (1955), Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, Movement for Democracy – The Net, The Democrats, European Republicans Movement

Centrist	Patto Segni, Italian Renewal, United Consumers, Southern Democratic Party, Middle-of-the-Road Italy, Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy

Christian-democratic	Italian People's Party (1919), Christian Democracy, Italian People's Party (1994), Christian Democratic Centre, United Christian Democrats, Christian Democrats for the Republic, Democratic Union for the Republic, European Democracy

Conservative-liberal	Italian Liberal Party, Italian Unionist Movement, National Democratic Alliance, Union of the Centre, Forza Italia, Liberal Party

Conservative	Party of Combatants, Economic Party, Front of the Ordinary Man, Monarchist National Party, People's Monarchist Party, Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity, National Democracy, National Alliance

Fascist and post-fascist	National Fascist Party, Republican Fascist Party, Italian Social Movement, National Front, National Social Front, National Vanguard , Italian Nationalist Association

Coalitions	Leftist coalitions: Popular Democratic Front, Alliance of Progressives, The Left – The Rainbow Centre-left coalitions: Socialist Unity, The Olive Tree, The Sunflower, The Union, Rose in the Fist Centrist coalitions: Pact for Italy, Pact of Democrats Centre-right coalitions: National Democratic Union, National Bloc, Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government, House of Freedoms Rightist coalitions: National Bloc of Freedom Neo-fascist coalitions: Social Alternative