The Revolutionary Movement Terza Posizione

Cult icon of the Italian extreme Right of the 1970s, Terza Posizione was able to conjugate juvenile rebellion with hierarchy, and calls to fascism with support for revolutionary thrusts around the world. Terza Posizione represented the culmination of a generational youth and student restlessness deriving from the neo-fascist matrix. It introduced innovative ideas both in terms of anti-imperialist themes linked to the role of Europe as a Nation and in terms of organization and militancy. It attracted hundreds of very young people among its ranks between 1976 and 1980, and, in spite of its short existence, it came to represent a moment of major discontinuity and novelty compared to the extra-parliamentary experiences that had preceded it. My paper aims to explore the rise, ideology, structure, and the end of the revolutionary neo-fascist movement Terza Posizione in the context of the Cold War, from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s.