Fronte Nazionale (Ital. National Front) was a Neofascist political party founded by Junio Valerio Borghese as a splinter group form the Italian Social Movement, which he felt was moving too far away from the ideals of Fascism. Like its close cousin in the National Vanguard the party was proved to have been promoting terrorism and to have been infiltrated by the Italian Secret Services which used it as a recruiting ground for expendable pawns to be used in 'wet' and 'dirty' operations which would have been outside their jurisdiction or supposed ethics (see strategy of tension). The name has been used a number of times since then in far right Italian politics. A notable example was the Fronte Nazionale founded in 1990 by Franco Freda and disbanded in 2000 by the Italian government on the basis of the Mancino law for promoting racism. Another recent example came in 1997 when Adriano Tilgher used the title for a movement that he set up following his expulsion from Fiamma Tricolore. This group has since changed its name to Fronte Sociale Nazionale.
Bibliography
L. Cheles, R. Ferguson & M. Vaughan (eds.), The Far Right in Western & Eastern Europe, Harlow: Longman, 1995
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