Il Partito socialista italiano (Psi) e l’opposizione greca : dal colpo di Stato all’arrivo al potere del Movimento socialista panellenico (Pasok) (1967-1981)

The article examines the relationship developed by the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) with the heterogeneous Greek opposition movement, from the coup d’état in Athens in 1967 to the arrival in power of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) in 1981. Based primarily on documents from the archives of Italian socialism (Fondazione Filippo Turati in Florence, Fondazione Bettino Craxi in Rome), supplemented by the party press (l’Avanti!, Mondoperaio, Critica sociale), the article reconstructs the multifaceted commitment of the Italian socialists towards Greece. In particular, the first part investigates the different forms of solidarity promoted by the PSI towards the opposition movement to the junta of the colonels, describing its different spheres of action (political and organisational support and economic aid) and illustrating the relationships developed by the Italian socialists with some of the principal exponents of the Greek resistance movement (Mikis Theodorakis, Andreas Papandreou, Alexandros and Stathis Panagoulis). The second part examines the evolution of the relationship in the following seven years, focusing above all on the intertwined relationship between Bettino Craxi’s PSI and Andreas Papandreou’s Pasok, and on the contacts developed between the two parties in the broader framework of Southern European socialism.