Fausto Gullo (16 June 1887 – 3 September 1974) was an Italian politician. Biography Gullo was born on 16 June 1887 in Catanzaro, where his father, an engineer, had moved for work reasons. He joined the Italian Socialist Party at a very young age and in 1907 became a municipal councilor of Spezzano Piccolo. After graduating in law from the University of Naples in 1909, he practiced the profession of lawyer. He carried out political activity in Cosenza and in the Presila towns. In 1914 he was elected provincial councilor for the Spezzano Grande district, with a program that included, among other things, the abolition of private property, religion and institutions of the time. After the World War I, he supported the Communist Abstentionist Fraction, headed by Amadeo Bordiga, whom he had met when he attended the University of Naples. In 1921, he joined the Communist Party of Italy (PCd'I) and, in 1924, he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, but his election was then canceled following a recount of votes. In the days following the murders of Giacomo Matteotti, Gullo was, together with Antonio Gramsci, against the Aventinian parliamentarians. To respond to the Matteotti crime committed by the fascists, the communists proposed a general strike and remained in Parliament unlike the other groups that went to the Aventine. With the Federation of Cosenza, he sided against the progressive affirmation of the center line, represented by Antonio Gramsci. In the spring of 1925, he signed the initiatives of the Committee of Understanding, promoted, among others, by the deputies Onorato Damen, Bruno Fortichiari and Luigi Repossi. Starting from 1925, he loosened his relations with the Communist Left, to the point of breaking them completely, as demonstrated by the adhesion to Gramsci's theses expressed in January 1926, during the provincial congress of the PCd'I in which Umberto Terracini (who was arrested in the same year together with Gramsci) of the same faction. Decided opponent of fascist corporatism, in 1926 he was assigned to confinement. He came out the following year only to be arrested in 1929 because he was accused of having caused "a certain awakening of subversivism". During the twenty years of Fascism it was the reference point of the Calabrian anti-fascist movement. Political activity In April 1944 he was appointed minister of agriculture in the second government of Pietro Badoglio. He was one of the three Calabrian representatives in