Mafia e nuova politica fascista

The Mafia and the new fascist politics
The mafia has always been connected to politics, even if in many different ways. Also in the 1920’s the mafia tried to establish some links with the new fascist politicians while, on their side, the public authorities had to deal with some bosses. The aim of this paper is to show that this double-sided relationship didn’t follow a straight line. The Cosche didn’t realize immediately what was going to happen in 1922 and each cosca tried to ally itself with the Fascist party independently, choosing its own strategies. On the other hand, fascism attitude towards the mafia kept changing over time, according to the needs of the regime.