Editing Italian Republican Party (section)

=== Early 20th century ===
[[File:Partito Repubblicano italiano - logo (Italy, 1924).svg|thumb|left|200px|Pre-fascist style logo]]
In 1904 the Republican Youth Federation was formed in [[Terni]].

At the outbreak of [[World War I]], the PRI sided with interventionists, aiming at supporting [[France]] (considered the motherland of [[human rights]]) and annexing [[Trento]] and [[Trieste]] (then part of [[Austria-Hungary]]). After the end of the conflict, the party tried to form an alliance with other left-wing parties, but the attempt failed as the PSI at was strongly influenced by its "maximalist" (radical) wing. In 1921, [[Pietro Nenni]] left the PRI to become one of the leaders of the PSI. In the 1920s, the rise of the [[National Fascist Party]] (PNF) caused the collapse of all Italian left-wing parties, including the PRI, which was banned in 1926.

Several Republicans were arrested, confined or exiled and the PRI collaborated to the [[Anti-fascism#Italy: against Fascism and Mussolini|anti-fascist]] struggle. In 1927, the party joined Anti-fascist Concentration. In the late 1930s, it also participated in the [[Spanish Civil War]]. In 1940, the German occupation of France, where many Republicans had taken refuge, put the party in jeopardy. During the armed resistance against the German occupation of Italy from 1943, PRI members were part of the provincial National Liberation Committees (CLN), but they did not participate to the national CLN as they did not want to collaborate with Italian monarchists, some of whom were active members of the committee.