 A typical characteristic of the Garibaldi Brigades was the contrast attempt to transform the partisan formations into an avant-garde and constitutive element of the process of involving the populations in the active anti-fascism, with a continuous effort of integration between the armed fight and the civil mobilisation through their representatives.With a further organizational effort, communist leaders of Milan created in June 1944 the so-called "insurrection triumvirates" ("triumvirati insurrezionali") at regional level, in order to coordinate the political struggle of the party among the occupied cities and in the workplaces through the concrete action of partisan mountain groups in view of a general insurrection.On 10 April 1945, the general command of "Brigate Garibaldi" issued the "directive no.