... the sudden popularity of Socialism among the lower classes, as they campaigned for workers rights and removal of businesses from owners. This would mean that the owners would lose lots of money. However the Fascist party were a forceful party more concerned with Italy and the destruction of Socialism. This appealed to them. The leader of the Fascist party was a man named Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was born in 1883 in central Italy. By the turn of the century he was a radical Socialist and became a journalist. In 1912 he became editor of the Socialist paper 'Avanti'. At the outbreak of war Mussolini believed that Italy should get involved, this was against the beliefs of the Socialist Party (PSI). He resigned from the PSI and started his own paper, which supported the Italians getting involved in war. The paper 'Il Popolo d'Italia' was a major contrast to his initial Socialist ...

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