RS was founded in 2015 as a party with a
socialist standpoint. On the occasion of the 2018 general elections, the party joined the
Power to the People list, together with
Communist Refoundation Party,
Italian Communist Party, and other far-left parties and associations, under the leadership of
Viola Carofalo. However, Power to the People scored 1.1% of the vote and elected no MPs. In 2022, RS joined
People's Union, the electoral list (which brings together
Democracy and Autonomy, Communist Refoundation Party and Power to the People) created by
Luigi de Magistris to participate in the general elections of the same year. On this occasion, the party's leader Franco Bartolomei is a candidate for the Senate in the single-member constituency "BAT–Murgia", in
Apulia. == Elections results ==