Italian Workers' Party

Italian Workers' Party Partito Operaio Italiano
Leader	Costantino Lazzari, Giuseppe Croce
Founded	1882
Dissolved	14 August 1892
Merged into	Party of Italian Workers
Headquarters	Milan, Italy
Ideology	Socialism
Political position	Left-wing
Colours	Red
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The Italian Workers' Party (Partito Operaio Italiano, POI) was a socialist political party in Italy.

It was founded in 1882 in Milan by Giuseppe Croce and Costantino Lazzari and was supported externally by the Milanese Socialist League of Filippo Turati.

The party was responsible for the Workers' Hymn, a socialist anthem written in 1886 by Turati and set to music by Amintore Galli, which is considered among the most significant historic songs of the Italian workers' movement.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

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).

References

1. Bosio, Gianni; Coggiola, Franco (1972) [15 November 1972]. "Il Canto dei lavoratori: Inno del Partito Operaio Italiano (testo di Filippo Turati, musica di Amintore Galli)" [The Workers' Hymn: Anthem of the Italian Workers' Party (text by Filippo Turati, music by Amintore Galli)]. Il Bosco degli alberi: Storia d'Italia dall'Unità ad oggi attraverso il giudizio delle classi popolari [The Forest of Trees: The History of Italy from Unification to Today through the Judgment of Popular Classes] (PDF) (in Italian) (2nd ed.). Milan: Edizioni del Gallo. pp. 37–46. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
2. Montemaggi, Andrea. "L' "Inno dei Lavoratori" nell'immaginario collettivo dell'epoca" [The "Workers' Hymn" in the collective imagination of the time]. montemaggi.it (in Italian). Retrieved 1 January 2024.
3. Massimo L. Salvadori, Enciclopedia storica, Zanichelli, Bologna 2000