The Italian Socialists (I Socialisti Italiani) is a minor Italian political party, born on February 7, 2006 as the result of a split in the New Italian Socialist Party wing favourable to a political alliance with The Union and an immediate discontinuance of ties with the House of Freedoms. The party is led by Vittorio "Bobo" Craxi, son of the late leader of the Italian Socialist Party, Bettino.

Because of the ambiguity inherent in presenting a symbol with a carnation and the name "Craxi" in the centre-left coalition, whereas the New Italian Socialist Party is located on the centre-right (including Bobo's sister Stefania, member of Forza Italia), the ministry of Internal Affairs asked Bobo Craxi to remove his surname and the carnation from the symbol. As the symbol would have been unrecognizable at that point, Craxi himself was inserted on the lists of the Democrats of the Left.

At the elections of April 2006 The Socialists did present themselves in The Union coalition with its leader a candidate on the lists of the Democrats of the Left. However, it decided not to join the social-radical project of Rose in the Fist. Although the list ran its own candidates and presented its own symbol they faced many odds. The new symbol which removed the name "Craxi" inevitably lost the party votes.

After the votes were counted The Socialists received unpromising results; 0.3% for the House of Deputies and 0.36% for the Senate. The party saw none of its members elected and even Bobo Craxi, who had run on the Democrats of the Left list, was not elected, leaving The Socialist party with no representation in Parliament. However, the centre-left coalition won the election and in the new Cabinet of Romano Prodi Bobo Craxi became under-secretary for the Foreign Office.blank">http://www.repubblica.it/2006/c/sezioni/politica/versoelezioni31/bobolist/bobolist.html

The first party convention, held in March 2007 elected unanimously Saverio Zavettieri as party secretary and deliberated the change of denomination from The Socialists to The Italian Socialists. The party also discussed and rejected the opportunity to join the _Democratic Party, which was founded on 14 October 2007.

In July 2007 the party decided to merge into the new Socialist Party, which was founded in March 2008.

The Italian Socialists (Socialisti Italiani, SI) were a social-democratic political party, active in Italy from 1994 to 1998.

It was founded on 13 November 1994, immediately after the dissolution of the Italian Socialist Party, which had been plagued by corruption scandals exposed by the Mani pulite investigations. The party was led for its short life by Enrico Boselli.

At the regional elections of 1995 the Socialisti Italiani formed a list with Democratic Alliance and Patto Segni, which was called Pact of Democrats. The results, however, were disappointing.

For the general elections of 1996, the Italian Socialists joined the list of Italian Renewal, a brand new centrist party led by Lamberto Dini, within the Olive Tree coalition, acquiring in total 8 deputies (Giuseppe Albertini, Enrico Boselli, Aldo Brancati, Vincenzo Ceremigna, Giovanni Crema, Sergio Fumagalli, Paolo Manca and Roberto Villetti) and 5 senators (Livio Besso Cordero, Ottaviano Del Turco, Giovanni Iuliano, Maria Rosaria Manieri and Cesare Marini).

In 1998 the party merged with the Italian Democratic Socialist Party, a portion of Labour Federation, a portion of the Socialist Party and the Socialist League to form the Italian Democratic Socialists.