The Venetian People's Unity (Unitá Popołare Veneta, UPV) is a Venetist socialist and separatist political party.
Founded in 2008, the party seeks to represent the "Venetian left" and takes example from Herri Batasuna.[1] According to its website, the party's goal is to create a "sythesis between socialist ideals, the defense of Venetian national identity and the fight for the self-determination of Venetian lands": in this respect, UPV seeks to "spread Venetism within the left-wing and the left-wing within Venetism, in order to form a Venetian independentist and identitarian left".[2]
In November 2009 UPV joined other separatist parties, including the more mainstream Liga Veneta Repubblica and grassroots Venetians Movement, to form Veneto Freedom.[3][4] However, as soon as in January 2010, the coalition was disbanded and its independentist core formed a more coherent outfit, the Party of the Venetians (PdV).[5][6] In September 2010 the PdV was merged into Veneto State[7], but the UPV retained its identity within the new party.