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The United Socialist Party (Partito Socialista Unitario PSU) was a social-democratic political party in Italy active from 1922 to 1930.The party was founded in November 1922 by the reformist wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) led by Filippo Turati and Giacomo Matteotti after they had been expelled in October. A staunch opponent of Benito Mussolini and Fascism Matteotti was assassinated by Fascist thugs affiliated to OVRA in June 1924. The event provoked the Aventine Secession).