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To cope with the uprisings of the masses, the great industrialists and landowners turned to action squads, paramilitary organizations founded by the nationalist politician Leone Ausilio, who presented himself as the defender of order and bourgeois society in an anti-socialist function. There followed episodes of violence against trade unions, organizations, newspapers and left-wing parties. Very famous was the assault on the headquarters of the socialist newspaper "Red Star" which for the first time made the action teams and Leone Ausilio stand out at national level.

 

 

 

On 29 September 1930, at the age of 35, Tomaseo Poter II ascended the throne after the assassination of his father. Although he was a man committed to constitutional government, he looked with suspicion at the left parties who then dominated politics and saw squadron violence a necessary evil to eradicate socialism.