From piazzale Loreto to Montecitorio - Right Wing Evolution in Italy

From Piazzale Loreto to Montecitorio
Right Wing Evolution in Italy By La Strada comrades

Almirante's strategy for a modern right.

.......... With Michellini's death and the coming back of Almirante to the party's leadership a new era starts, which brings an organizative reconstruction, new quadri,a more articuleted tactic and an ideological restyle: all this anyway, to gain the same Michelini's goals, which were to come out of the ghetto and become a potential government partner for D.C.. On the organizative side, the party viene dotato of a centralized structure with full-time funzionari; the youth organizations become one single organism (xyouth front); the role of federali is emphatised and at the same time the decisional process gets more and more centralized, is it between top and bottom or is it at central level, where the party's secretary becomes more powerful.
.......... On the ideological-strategical side, MSI tries to play the role of a modern right introducing itself as less nostalgic than in the past, inheriting the electorate of monarchists looking for consens beyond their own traditional audience.To underline this change, the party adds to his name "National Right".

Manifesti pubblicati su il Secolo d'Italia per la campagna elettorale del 1972
.......... Almirante's strategy sees even a rinnovate militantism against “the communist subvertion" with the purpose, even, to catch a good part of that radical dissident part which had feed moviments as “New order” and “Nation avantgarde”. So the party offers itself as wild defenser of the "silent majority" and, at the same time, as potential partner for a moderate coalition.
.......... despite the clamorous electoral success at the partial administrative election of 1971 (13.9 % with 21.5 % in Catania and of 16.2 % in Roma) and in the politic elections of 1972 in which MSI reaches his storical maximum (8.7 %) and organizative expansion (200.000 subscribers circa), this strategy doesn't bring to concrete results. Its internal contradictions - superficial ideological revision and clearly strumental, incapacity to control the most militant frings and the youth organizations, accomplice with the most violent groups of radical right - and the restraint politic of D.C., worried by the pouring of the votes in favour of MSI, lead a strategy of national right to a close road. the electoral loss of 1976 (2.6 5 less) gives some tension between the moderates, upholder of a more resolute ideological renewal and of a close entent with DC, and the Almirante's secretary. the clash brings to the exit of such component which gathers more than half parliament group but not any federation: at the pools, in 1979, the secessionists' party, national democracy, won't reach neither the 1% and it breaks up. the exit of the moderates mean a clear shift of the party to major system protest positions, but moreover gives space to Pino Rauti, the ancient leader of “Ordine nuovo” reentered iinto MSI at the beginning of seventies and been defilated till that day. Rauti gives birth to a new current with innovative caracteristics becouse it constitutes a laboratory of project turned to beyond the obsessive recall of the past.

a french manifest of the new right international. together with the french Ordre Nouveau, the german NPD, the spanish Falange, ecc., even MSI. of particular interest the mistificatory use of the closed hand and the password of the european indipendence
.......... The starting point for the riflections of rauti's group is the tear down of ideologies liberal and marxists, both unable to answer to society's needs, and moreover, of the young generations. Capitalism with his making good any relation, has destroyed any chance to live in community, genuine spirithual: massification, consumism and alienation - not any longer disorder, subversion and communism - are the real problems of contemporary society.

By Centro Sociale La Strada............Last Modified in 27/12/1996