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In other parts of Europe, many democratic socialist parties were united in the International Working Union of Socialist Parties ( the " Two and a Half International ") in the early 1920s and in the London Bureau ( the " Three and a Half International ") in the 1930s.

These internationals sought to steer a course between the social democrats of the Second International, who were seen as insufficiently socialist ( and had been compromised by their support for World War I ), and the perceived anti-democratic Third International.

The key movements within the Two and a Half International were the ILP and the Austromarxists, and the main forces in the Three and a Half International were the ILP and the Workers ' Party of Marxist Unification ( POUM ) of Spain.

In Italy, the Italian Democratic Socialist Party broke away from the Italian Socialist Party in 1947, when this latter joined the Soviet-funded Italian Communist Party to prepare the decisive general election of 1948.

Despite remaining a minor party in Italian Parliament for fifty years, its leader Giuseppe Saragat became President of Italy in 1964.