Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria

Not to be confused with Fasci di Azione Rivoluzionaria, a neo-fascist organization founded in 1946.

Leagues of Revolutionary Action
Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria
LeadersBenito Mussolini
Alceste de Ambris
Angelo Oliviero Olivetti
Founded11 December 1914; 109 years ago (11 December 1914)
Dissolved1919; 105 years ago (1919)
Split fromUSI[1] (interventionist factions)
PSI[2] (interventionist factions)
Preceded byFascio Rivoluzionario d'Azione Internazionalista
IdeologyItalian nationalism
National syndicalism[3]
Republicanism
Interventionism[4][5]
Italian irredentism[6]
Political positionRight-wing
Colours  Black

The Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria (English: "Fasces of Revolutionary Action"; fig.: 'Leagues of Revolutionary Action') was an Italian political movement founded in 1914 by Benito Mussolini, and active mainly in 1915.[7] Sponsored by Alceste De Ambris, Mussolini, and Angelo Oliviero Olivetti, it was a pro-war movement aiming to promote Italian entry into World War I. It was connected to the world of revolutionary interventionists and inspired by the programmatic manifesto of the Fascio Rivoluzionario d'Azione Internazionalista, dated 5 October 1914.

The movement achieved its primary goal when Italy declared war on Austria-Hungary in May 1915, and most of the movement's members joined the army. After the war, almost all of them met in 1919 in Piazza San Sepolcro for the foundation of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, which preceded the National Fascist Party founded in 1921.

  1. ^ Payne, Stanley G. (1996). A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 81–87. ISBN 9780299148737.
  2. ^ Payne, Stanley G. (1996). A History of Fascism, 1914–1945. University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 81–87. ISBN 9780299148737.
  3. ^ "Il sindacalismo rivoluzionario". www.storico.org. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  4. ^ Rimbotti, Luca Leonello (1989). Il fascismo di sinistra : da piazza San Sepolcro al congresso di Verona. Edizioni Settimo sigillo. OCLC 654735931.
  5. ^ Nello, Paolo (1978). L'avanguardismo giovanile alle origini del fascismo (in Italian). Bari: Laterza. pp. 19–20.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference OBrien42 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sternhell was invoked but never defined (see the help page).