Mussolini

Mussolini was born on July 29th 1883 in north Italy, his father was a blacksmith and his mother was a school teacher. he had a younger brother and sister. they were very poor. his father was a socialist and republican. he believed in the fairer share of wealth in Italy and that the monarchy should be abolished. his father was also a nationalist. Benito had the same thoughts about politics as his father. he hated school but then became a teacher, but he was more interested in politics. June 1902 he went to Switzerland, he lived rough but then became involved with some Italian socialists out there. worker as a bricklayer and joined a trade union, he got expelled from the country for suggesting a general strike. he went to France for a while and then returned to Italy on military service.after military service he went to Trentino, this was in north Italy but was ruled by Austrians, he was expelled for encouraging trade unions and his attacks on the catholic church. he then went south and tried to help farmers improve their wages. he then became a secretary to a local socialist party in Forli  and editor to the socialist newspaper "the class struggle". in 1911 the Italians attacked Libya in north Africa, when Mussolini led demonstrations against the attack in Forli, he was arrested and imprisoned for five months. he became the editor of the socialist newspaper "Avanti" this happened in april 1912 because the demonstrations got him noticed in the wider socialist movement. he wrote most of the newspaper himself.Mussolini went under a massive change of thinking and outlook during WW1. at the start of the war, he attacked it as the war of workers fighting other workers with industrialists becoming rich at their expenses

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