Far-right social centres

Far-right social centres are community spaces inspired by neo-fascist and Third Position ideas. The most famous is the Italian movement CasaPound.

Italy

First far-right social centres were founded in Italy in 1980s.[1] In 1990 members of Fronte della Gioventù of the Italian Social Movement squatted a building in Rome and founded social center Il Bartolo.[2][3] In 1998 Italian activists squatted a building in Rome and created a social center PortAperta. They organized some concerts in the building.

In 2002 neo-fascists squatted a building in and created social center CasaMontag.[4] On 20 September 2002 Italian nationalists squatted a building in Rome and created a social center Foro 753.[5]

CasaPound

Main article: CasaPound
CasaPound building in Rome

On 26 December 2003 Italian neo-fascists squatted a building in Esquiline Hill and founded a social center CasaPound.[6] In June 2008 CasaPound therefore constituted an "association of social promotion" and assumed the current name CasaPound Italy. Currently the movement CPI has a lot of social centres in Italy. Some of them are Circolo Futurista Casalbertone in Rome[7] and Casa d'Italia in Colleverde. Social center Area 19 was evicted in 2015.

Spain

In Spain there are far-right social centres in Madrid and Zaragoza. Hogar Social Zaragoza is a building squatted in June 2014. Hogar Social Ramiro Ledesma (Ramiro Ledesma Social Home) is a movement founded in 2014 in Madrid.[8][9] Members of HSM squatted some buildings[10][11] and organized demonstrations with some thousands participants.[12]

Ukraine

In 2016 members of Azov Battalion founded a social center Cossack House (Ukrainian: Козацький Дім) in Azov HQ in Kiev.[13] As they said, they are inspired by Italian CasaPound.[14]

Other countries

Also In Germany nationalists trying to found their own social centres.[15]

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