The Formazioni Di Difesa Proletaria () were Italian
anti-fascist formations, born during the two-year
Biennio Rosso
The Biennio Rosso (English: "Red Biennium" or "Two Red Years") was a two-year period, between 1919 and 1920, of intense social conflict in Italy, following the First World War.Brunella Dalla Casa, ''Composizione di classe, rivendicazioni e prof ...
period in Italy (1919–1920), later organized as a united front between 1921 and 1922.
The birth of the workers' defense formations was contextual to the birth of the
Fasci Italiani di Combattimento
The ''Fasci Italiani di Combattimento'' ( en, Italian Fasces of Combat, link=yes, also translatable as ''"Italian Fighting Bands"'' or ''"Italian Fighting Leagues"'') was an Italian Fascist organization created by Benito Mussolini in 1919. It wa ...
, created by
Benito Mussolini, and to the presentation of their manifesto.
See also
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Italian resistance movement
References
1919 in Italy
1920 in Italy
Italian anti-fascists
Political history of Italy
Revolutions of 1917–1923
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