1. Lelio Basso was an Italian democratic socialist politician, political scientist and journalist.
16 Facts About Lelio Basso
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Lelio Basso was born in Varazze into a Liberal bourgeois family.
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Lelio Basso enrolled at the Faculty of Law at the University of Pavia in 1921, and joined the Italian Socialist Party.
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Lelio Basso studied Marxist doctrine, and was close to Piero Gobetti during his Liberal Revolution phase.
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Lelio Basso returned to Milan in 1931 and, while practising as a lawyer, graduated with a thesis on Rudolf Otto.
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Later in 1943, Lelio Basso went against the party line to found the clandestine newspaper Bandiera Rossa.
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Post-1945, Lelio Basso was elected Vice-secretary of the PSIUP, and, in 1946, became a deputy to the Italian Constituent Assembly which consecrated the Republic.
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Lelio Basso was on the 75-member Commission that was to write the text of the Italian Constitution, and contributed to the formulation of articles 3 and 49 in particular.
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At the time of the Giuseppe Saragat schism, Lelio Basso became Secretary of the PSI, a role he occupied until the Genoa Congress in 1949.
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Lelio Basso was an active member of the left-wing of the PSI from 1959.
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Lelio Basso was one of the leaders of the new party, and was its president from 1965 to 1968.
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Lelio Basso founded and wrote for a number of international publications.
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Lelio Basso was famous throughout Europe as a criminal lawyer, and sat in the Russell Tribunal, an international body presided by Bertrand Russell, established to judge American crimes in the Vietnam War.
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Lelio Basso intiatiated the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples.
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Lelio Basso's life was a medley of intellectual activity and research on the one hand and the search for an effective political instrument on the other, all on an international scale.
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Lelio Basso wrote a huge number of essays for periodicals and collections.