Two weeks later, the workers of the Milanese companies Caproni and Pirelli joined them and soon stopped working more than 100,000 in the industrialized northern part of Italy. In April, Mussolini and Bastianin met German foreign minister Ribbentrop in Salzburg to tell him that Italy could not follow the strike war. According to historian Arnold J. Toynbee, “it was the first great demonstration of the workers against the authorities in fascist Europe.”

And it also influenced. In July of that year, the Italian bourgeoisie decided to replace Mussolini with Badoglio, in his attempt to maintain fascism without Mussolini. According to some historians, the FIAT strike was the beginning of the end of Mussolini. And it was no accident that the mobilizations were on in Mirafiori. According to Toynbe himself, even when fascism reached power, “the main focus of communist resistance was the Turin factory of FIAT.” Of course, he referred to the factory workers, because the entrepreneurs were at the other end: the one that appears next to Mussolini in the 1932 photo that supports this article is Giovanni Agnelli, one of the founders of FIAT, the first president and member of the fascist party.

80 years ago there was no FIAT's first strike, for example, the strike that would open to the entire Piemonte in 1920 began at the factory in Turin. And it would not be the last, it was the starting point of mobilizations throughout the 1940s, the dismissal of a worker in 1962 would again cause unemployment… And in 1980 came the turning point: after 35 days of strike, the leaders of FIAT managed to join them 40,000 workers and, with an anti-union march, they got the challenge.

The last known FIAT strike took place in 2018, when the Juventus football team in Turin decided to sign Cristiano Ronaldo (the Agnelli family, which, in addition to being closely linked to FIAT and fascism, owns Juventus since 1923). During the FIAT cutbacks and layoffs, they denounced the EUR 300 million wastage in the signing and salary of the player. The strike began on July 15 at the Melfi plant, but two days later it was suspended due to poor continuity. 75 years earlier the heirs of those who managed to hit Mussolin hard were unable to fight the football dictatorship.