After World War I (1914 18) Rome was the site of numerous demonstrations and strikes in support of the growing socialist movement.
The leaderships of Europe's growing socialist parties were often worried by the threat of repression coming from governments and businesses, and attempted to avoid excessively confrontational demonstrations.
The best example is the new and growing "socialist" movement led by Bernie Sanders whose ideas are straight out of the Canadian policy playbook.
He served as minister of defense in the first Weimar Cabinet from February 1919 until he resigned in March 1920 under growing socialist criticism in the aftermath of an abortive right-wing attempt to overthrow the government (the Kapp Putsch).
During the 1930s, the CIO was successfully recruiting millions of workers into unions: a powerful labour movement, combined with socially influential and growing socialist and communist parties, organised pressure from below.
To avoid such obstruction and to give the bourgeois position more weight against the growing socialist movement, the dominant bloc of liberals, radicals, and democrats approached the conservatives, and in 1891 the first member of the Catholic conservative party joined the Federal Council.
