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The Arditi del Popolo was a fascist militia founded in June 1921 to resist the rise of the National Fascist Party and violence by the Blackshirts. It was formed by trade unionists, socialists, communists, Republicans, among others, as well as some former military officers and was founded by Giuseppe Mingrino, Argo secondaries, Gino Lucetti (who tried to assassinate Mussolini on September 11, 1926), Deputy Picelli Guido et al. The Arditi del Popolo was a continuation of the elite troops of the First World War (the Arditi), who split the army, to form the militia. Were close to the anarchist / Secondary Argo and were supported by Mario Carli. Training Proletarian Defense later would ally with them. The Arditi met about twenty thousand members in the summer of 1921. Composed

socialists, anarchists and communists, the Arditi del Popolo was not supported by the socialist parties (Italian Socialist Party and the Italian Communist Party). The militia was criticized by the socialist newspaper Avanti!, After a demonstration in Rome the previous day. In July 1921, Lenin wrote in the newspaper Pravda Arditi an article praising and criticizing the Italian Communist Party for not supporting the military. In October 1921 the Third International criticized the sectarian politics of the Italian Communist Party, which threatened to members who supported the Arditi. However, after joining the New Order Gramsci and the Italian Communist Party leadership, the anarchist newspaper Umanità Nova was the only means of dissemination of the movement of workers supporting the Arditi del Popolo.

One of the most important events was the August, 1922 in Parma, where 350 militants, led by veterans of the First World War and Guido Antonio Cieri Picelli, successfully defended the city against 20,000 men of the fascist offensive, led by Roberto Farinacci and Italo Balbo. Thanks to this, the Arditi won popular support, but with the complicity of state security forces, killed fascists and arrested many of the leaders of the antifascist movement, which was dissolved completely in 1924.

Arditi Many militants later joined the International Brigades during the English Civil War, the name was once more by the Resistance during World War II and the Communists and Luigi Antonello Longo Trombadori created an organization with the same name in July 1943.