The Italian Workers' Party (''Partito Operaio Italiano'', POI) was a
socialist political party in Italy
This article contains a list of political parties in Italy since Italian unification in 1861.
Throughout history, numerous political parties have been operating in Italy, and since World War II no party has ever gained enough support to govern ...
.
It was founded in 1882 in
Milan by
Giuseppe Croce
Giuseppe is the Italian form of the given name Joseph,
from Latin Iōsēphus from Ancient Greek Ἰωσήφ (Iōsḗph), from Hebrew יוסף.
It is the most common name in Italy and is unique (97%) to it.
The feminine form of the name is Giusep ...
and
Costantino Lazzari and was supported externally by the
Milanese Socialist League
Milanese (endonym in traditional orthography , ') is the central variety of the Western dialect of the Lombard language spoken in Milan, the rest of its metropolitan city, and the northernmost part of the province of Pavia. Milanese, due to t ...
of
Filippo Turati. In 1892 the party was merged with the
Italian Revolutionary Socialist Party of
Andrea Costa and the Socialist League to form the
Italian Socialist Party, led by Filippo Turati.
[Massimo L. Salvadori, ''Enciclopedia storica'', Zanichelli, Bologna 2000]
In 1892 the party joined the new "Party of Italian Workers" (''Partito dei Lavoratori Italiani''), which changed its name in 1893 to "Socialist Party of Italian Workers" (''Partito Socialista dei Lavoratori Italiani'') and in 1895 to
Italian Socialist Party (''Partito Socialista Italiano'').
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1882 establishments in Italy
1892 disestablishments in Italy
Defunct political parties in Italy
Defunct socialist parties in Italy
Political parties disestablished in 1892
Political parties established in 1882
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