Today in Labor History June 10, 1927: Gino Lucetti was sentenced to 30 years in imprison for attempting to assassinate Mussolini. Lucetti was very active during the Biennio Rosso (a period of strikes and revolutionary organizing from 1919-1920) and in opposing the fascist movement that followed. On September 11, 1926, he launched a bomb at Mussolini’s automobile procession. He escaped from prison in 1943, when Naples was liberated, and died soon after on the island of Ischia, when it was bombed by the Germans. During World War II, several antifascist partisan groups named themselves after him (e.g., ‘G. Lucetti’ and ‘Lucetti bis,’ as well as the anarchist brigade ‘Lucetti Battalion.’)

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