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{{short description|Italian political party}}
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| native_name = Movimento Politico dei Lavoratori
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| leader = [[Livio Labor]]
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| ideology = [[Christian left]]<br />[[Christian socialism]]
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The '''Workers' Political Movement''' ({{lang-it|Movimento Politico dei Lavoratori}}, '''MPL'''), also translated as '''Political Movement of Workers''',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kLIwBwAAQBAJ&dq=Workers%27+Political+Movement+Livio+Labor&pg=PA60 The Dove and the Eagle]</ref> was a small [[list of political parties in Italy|political party in Italy]] led by [[Livio Labor]].

==History==
After the congress of [[Christian Associations of Italian Workers]] (ACLI) had voted to end its affiliation with [[Christian Democracy (Italy)|Christian Democracy]], on March 8, 1969, Livio Labor (president of ACLI) and [[Riccardo Lombardi]] founded the "Association of Political Culture" (''Associazione di Cultura Politica'', ACPOL), committed to the restructuring of the  Italian left. On 5 July 1970, the ACPOL dissolved itself to start the constituent phase of the Workers' Political Movement (MPL). The MPL sprang from the Catholic sector of dissent towards the Christian Democrats, aiming to represent progressive Catholics and leftists. 

In the [[1972 Italian general election|general elections of 1972]] the MPL obtained only 0.36% of the votes.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kSr4AfrFAQUC&dq=Workers%27+Political+Movement+Livio+Labor&pg=PA93 Italy in Transition: Conflict and Consensus]</ref> After this disappointing result many MPL members (such as Labor himself, [[Gennaro Acquaviva]], [[Luciano Benadusi]], [[Marco Biagi (jurist)|Marco Biagi]] and [[Luigi Covatta]]) joined the [[Italian Socialist Party]] (PSI).<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WvavCwAAQBAJ&dq=Workers%27+Political+Movement+Livio+Labor&pg=PA213 Italian Christian Democracy: The Politics of Dominance]</ref>

The MPL minority ([[Giovanni Russo Spena]], [[Domenico Jervolino]], [[Gian Giacomo Migone]], [[Vittorio Bellavite]] and others) decided instead to continue its political activity as Socialist Alternative. Three months later this new formation merged with the [[New Italian Socialist Party of Proletarian Unity]] (PSIUP) to found the [[Proletarian Unity Party (Italy)|Proletarian Unity Party]] (PdUP).

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