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The Action Party (Partito d'Azione, Pd'A) was an Italian political party.

An anti-fascist political party in the tradition of Giuseppe Mazzini and the Risorgimento. Founded in July 1942 by former militants of Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Liberty), liberal socialists, democrats. Ideologically they were heirs to the "liberal Socialism" of Carlo Rosselli and to Piero Gobetti's "liberal Revolution" , whose writings rejected Marxist 'economic determinism' and aimed at the overcoming of class struggle and for a 'new' shape of Socialism, respect for civil liberty and for radical change in both the social and the economic structure of Italy. From January 1943 it published a clandestine organ, "Free Italy". Central members of the National Liberation Committee they participated actively in the Italian resistance movement with units of Giustizia e Libertà (Justice and Liberty), commanded by Ferruccio Parri. It maintained a clear antimonarchical position and it was opposed to Togliatti and the Italian Communist Party's Salerno Initiative for postwar governance.

For Partito d'Azione units and involvement in the Italian resistance movement, see Giustizia e Libertà.

In the immediate post-war period it joined the government securing the post of Prime Minister for Ferruccio Parri (June-November 1945). However as a result of the internal conflict between the democratic-reformist line of Ugo La Malfa and the socialist line of Emilio Lussu,combined with the electoral defeat of 1946, the party folded. The main group of former members, led by Riccardo Lombardi, joined the Italian Socialist Party, while the Malfa group entered the Italian Republican Party.

• Giorgio Bassani
• Riccardo Bauer
• Norberto Bobbio
• Andrea Caffi
• Piero Calamandrei
• Guido Calogero
• Aldo Capitini
• Nicola Chiaromonte
• Carlo Azeglio Ciampi President of Italian Republic (1999-2007)
• Tristano Codignola
• Enrico Cuccia
• Guido Dorso
• Enzo Enriques Agnoletti
• Vittorio Foa
• Ettore Gallo
• Aldo Garosci
• Leone Ginzburg
• Natalia Ginzburg
• Ugo La Malfa
• Massimo Mila
• Carlo Levi
• Primo Levi
• Riccardo Lombardi
• Emilio Lussu
• Raffaele Mattioli
• Ferruccio Parri Prime minister of Kingdom of Italy (1945)
• Ernesto Rossi
• Manlio Rossi Doria
• Joyce Salvadori Lussu
• Gaetano Salvemini
• Altiero Spinelli
• Alberto Tarchiani
• Adolfo Tino
• Silvio Trentin
• Leo Valiani
• Franco Venturi
• Paolo Vittorelli
• Bruno Zevi

• Liberalism and radicalism in Italy
• Italian resistance movement

Website of the Italian Resistance Historical Society: http://www.romacivica.net/anpiroma/antifascismo/antifascismo15.html [1] Includes in-depth bios, recent remembrances, and selections from party documents.

Historical Dictionary entry from Paravia Mondadori Editori, an Italian Educational publishing house: http://www.pbmstoria.it/dizionari/storia_mod/p/p062.htm [2]

 

Historical Italian political parties (active parties: simple version, complete version)

Communist: Communist Party of Italy, Italian Communist Party, Marxist-Leninist Revolutionary Party of Italy, Union of Italian Communists (Marxist-Leninist), Proletarian Democracy, Proletarian Unity Party, Organisation of Communists of Italy (Marxist-Leninists), Movement of Unitarian Communists, Popular Democracy (United Left) Socialist and social-democratic: Italian Socialist Party, Italian Reform Socialist Party, United Socialist Party (1922), Labour Democratic Party, Italian Socialist Workers' Party, United Socialist Party (1949), Italian Democratic Socialist Party, Unified Socialist Party, Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity, Democratic Party of the Left, Movement for Democracy – The Net, Italian Socialists, Socialist League, Reform Socialist Party, Socialist Party, Socialist Unity, Democrats of the Left, Reformist Alliance Green: Rainbow Greens, Green Lists Social liberal: Action Party, Radical Party, Democratic Alliance, Democratic Union, The Democrats, Democracy is Freedom – Daisy, European Republicans Movement Liberal: Italian Liberal Party, Uomo Qualunque Front, Union of the Centre, Liberal Party, Democratic Republicans Centrist: Patto Segni, Italian Renewal, Middle-of-the-Road Italy, Southern Democratic Party, United Consumers Regionalist: Social Democratic Party of South Tyrol, Fronte Marco Polo, Sicilian Alliance, Sardinia Project 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: Monarchist National Party, People's Monarchist Party, Italian Democratic Party of Monarchist Unity, National Democracy Fascist and neo-fascist: National Fascist Party, Italian Social Movement–National Right, National Vanguard, National Front Leftist coalition: Popular Democratic Front, Proletarian Democracy, Alliance of Progressives, The Sunflower, Socialists United for Europe, Together with the Union, Federation of the Olive Tree Liberal coalition: National Democratic Union, National Bloc Centrist coalition: Pact for Italy, Pact of Democrats, Pact for the Autonomies Christian democratic coalition: Whiteflower, Christian Democratic Federation Centre-right coalition: Pole of Freedoms, Pole of Good Government Conservative coalition: National Bloc of Freedom Neo-fascist coalition: Social Alternative Liste civetta: For the Abolition of Scorporo, New Country