ABSTRACT
Forza Nuova (FN) and CasaPound Italia (CPI) are the two main far-right movements operating in Italy since the early 2000s, after the vacuum left by the so-called second neo-fascist generation at the end of the Years of Lead. FN and CPI are often described alternately and synonymously as far-right and/or neo-fascist movements. The Russia–Ukraine conflict has shattered this area of political radicalism by bringing out old contradictions and bringing to media attention political areas such as National Bolshevism and Eurasianism. The conflict has in fact led to a situation of heated internal clashes within radical groups that represents an opportunity to understand which movement is classifiable as extreme right, which as neo-fascism and which in a different way. Through qualitative thematic analysis and political analysis on open-source archival data it was determined how the far-right/neo-fascist political area crashed and divided into three clusters: The extreme supremacist and Atlanticist right of CPI, the nostalgist and Putinist neo-fascism prevalent in FN, and a complex and evolving cultural area composed of National Bolshevists and Eurasianists that however has strong points of contact with the extreme left.
