The Turin strike failed from lack of national coordination, not from state force.

Evidence

The April strike was provoked by the employers. Their objective was explicitly the ending of “dual power” in the factories, i.e. the destruction or emasculation of the commissioni interne . That they succeeded, despite a month’s strike by the metalworkers, ten days of general strike throughout Turin and the province of Piedmont, and the organisation of an urban Soviet defended by armed workers, was due not to the huge armed force which was concentrated in the city — “an army of police … cannon and machineguns at all strategic points” as Gramsci described it — but to the failure of the Turin comrades to secure the support of the party or trade unions nationally, and to draw in workers outside Piedmont. Their failure to organise earlier on a national scale now caught up with them, and Turin stood alone. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 98

Categorization

• XREF: Embodying Gramsci’s later thesis that counter-hegemonic struggle misfires when confined to one site rather than articulated nationally — a mechanism readers can carry into thinking about scale of contestation generally.