In this essay we want to reconsider the role of the socialists in the Resistance in Rome, showing that their role was by no
means marginal. Of course, the centrality of the Garibaldi Brigades in Italy occupied by the Nazis cannot be denied, compared to
them, the action of the Matteotti Brigades was actually negligible, but in Rome the socialists were protagonists. During the Nazi
occupation, in conditions of grave danger, the socialist Bruno Buozzi, secretary of the General Confederation of Labor when Fascism
took power, entered into delicate negotiations to reconstitute the union, committing himself so that it was unitary and therefore
included communists, socialists and Christian Democrats. In Rome occupied by the Nazis, every form of disobedience acquired the
characteristics of an opposition, a real resistance which, among other things, was organized by the military apparatuses of the Socialist
and Communist parties. Sabotage and disturbance actions were organized daily to make life impossible for the enemy, who
reacted with tremendous reprisals. Thanks to spies, the leaders of the opposition were arrested and among them also Bruno Buozzi
whose arrest and death are still not clear in all their complex dynamics. Immediately after the arrival of the Allies in Rome, the union
was reconstituted but the agreement, the result of mediation and the long work of Buozzi in the first place, was backdated in
homage to his commitment and sacrifice.
