Mussolini's main critic, "the parliamentary socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti, was abducted

and murdered by five Fascist thugs on the payroll of Mussolini's press secretary"
(Paxton 210). "Mussolini eventually saw that he must assume total power or lose the power
he had. He spoke to the Chamber in a new, defiant mood on January 3, 1925: We wish to
make the nation Fascist.
At the same time, he unleashed the squadristi and ordered a police crackdown on the
growing liberal and socialist opposition. A series of decrees transformed Italy from a
parliamentary monarchy into a one-party dictatorship. By the end of 1926 all parties except the
Fascists had been dissolved; the death penalty, abolished in 1890, had been restored;
controls had been imposed on the press and local government; and Mussolini seemed
on his way toward the second revolution for which his more impatient followers had
clamored (Paxton 210). In reality, however, that second revolution never really came.
Nonfascist elements -- the monarchy, the Church, the army -- retained their
autonomous authority[They] accepted Mussolinis political rule, and the fascist
stage effects that went with it, as long as Mussolini was
able to assure internal order and prosperity for
themselves. (Paxton 254)
Between 1923 and 1926 women were gradually barred
from offices and significant chairs in both public and
private secondary schools. Following the passage of the
"emergency laws" that tightened fascist control in 1926,
socialist and communist women were exiled or
imprisoned, and middle-class organizations were either
dissolved or forced to accept fascist-approved
leadership.
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