Italian strikes against overseas deployment forced recognition of Albanian independence.

Evidence

A month later, July 20– 21, 1919, CGdL and the Italian Socialist Party organized a general strike, calling on workers across the country to march in solidarity with their struggling Russian comrades. Later, in June 1920, Italian soldiers and workers in the city of Ancona took control of the military barracks and refused to depart for Albania, which was then under Italian occupation (see L’Avanti, June 30, 1920). Th is action precipitated solidarity strikes and popular uprisings throughout Italy, where the people opposed arms production and called for repatriation of all Italian soldiers. Th e movement ultimately contributed to the full recognition of Albanian independence and the cessation of deployment of Italian soldiers. — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 373

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader interest in austerity as class weapon — worker militancy against state foreign policy in interwar Italy parallels later state responses under austerity. — connects to: Italian soldiers’ 1920 antiwar mutiny at Ancona forced Albanian independence recognition — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 373