socialist rebirth () was a minor social-democratic political party in italy. the group was founded in 1993 from a split from the italian socialist party (psi) led by giorgio benvenuto, who contested the continuing psi lead by ottaviano del turco which had lost a lot of electors. the rs and psi were both members of the alliance of progressives coalition of centre-left parties formed to contest the 1994 general election. in 1995, rs merged into the labour federation, which itself merged into democrats of the left in 1998.