[1] After the March on Rome and the appointment of Benito Mussolini as Prime Minister on 29 October 1922 the Turin labour movement kept on offering resistance to Fascism.

The Turin's Fascists became increasingly angered by Mussolini's tendency to collude with local economic and political elites and police chiefs in marginalizing the leader of Turinese and Piedmontese squadrismo, De Vecchi and his right-hand man Piero Brandimarte.

Fascism's increasingly prominent political position at the national level required stricter discipline from Fascists to prevent disaffection of its more liberal and squeamish backers.

[1] The initial pretext for the large-scale offensive against the labour movement in Turin was the killing of two fascists, Giuseppe Dresda and Lucio Bazzani, in the Barriera di Nizza, by the communist militant and tram worker Francesco Prato, on the night of 17–18 December 1922.

[1] In revenge, fascists raided and burned down the Camera del lavoro, the trade union headquarters, and attacked two clubs of the Italian Socialist Party.