Partito d'Azione

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The Action Party ( Partito d'Azione , Pd'A) was an Italian party between July 1942 and 1946 .

history

The Pd'A was a party in the tradition of Giuseppe Mazzini and the Risorgimento . It was founded in July 1942 by former members of Giustizia e Libertà (“Justice and Freedom”), liberal socialists and democrats. Ideologically it was a legacy of “liberal socialism” by Carlo Rosselli and Piero Gobetti's “liberal revolution”. His writings rejected the Marxist "economic determinism" and aimed at overcoming the class struggle and for a "new" direction of socialism, respect for civil liberty and for a radical change in the social and economic structure of Italy.

Since January 1943 she published the secret party organ “Free Italy”. Important members of the CLN were organized in the party and participated in the units of the Giustizia e Libertà ("Justice and Freedom") under the command of Ferruccio Parri in the Italian resistance. The Pd'A was clearly positioned anti-monarchist and thus entered into opposition to Palmiro Togliatti and the Communist Party of Italy ( Partito Comunista Italiano , PCI) or their turnaround of Salerno , which in the run-up to the referendum of 1946 in terms of integration into a All-party government had renounced the call for comprehensive social reforms.

In the immediate post-war period, the Pd'A was involved in the government and provided Ferruccio Parri as prime minister (June to November 1945). An internal conflict between the democratic-reformist line around Ugo La Malfa and the socialist group around Emilio Lussu , together with the election defeat in 1946, led to the dissolution of the party. The majority joined the Partito Socialista Italiano , while the group around La Malfa joined the Partito Repubblicano Italiano .

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