Salerno’s Turn: Communists in the Post-Fascist Transition

On April 22, 1944, the first post-fascism political government was formed in Italy, with the participation of the six parties that were members of the National Liberation Committee, including the Communist Party of Italy (PCI). The government would have its seat in Salerno until the liberation of Rome, a little more than a month later. That decision of the PCI to enter the government was called the turn of Salerno. That turn we will talk about t…