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Tricolour Flame Social Movement Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore
Italian National Party
Leader	Luca Romagnoli
Coalition	House of Freedoms
Political ideology	Neo-fascism, Nationalism
Membership	5,000 (2005)
Official newspaper	None
Website	http://www.fiammatricolore.net
See also	Politics of Italy Political parties in Italy Elections in Italy

The Tricolour Flame Social Movement, normally just Tricolour Flame (Movimento Sociale Fiamma Tricolore, MS-FT), is a hardline Italian neo-fascist party.

It was started by the more radical members of the fascist Italian Social Movement, who supported party founder Pino Rauti in refusing to join the relatively mainstream Alleanza Nazionale. Rauti was later ousted by Luca Romagnoli, who took the leadership. The conservative coalition House of Freedoms attracted controversy when they made an electoral pact in Sicily with the party for the elections in 2001 and for the general elections of 2006.

In the 2004 European Parliamentary Election the party gained enough votes in the Southern constituency to elect Mr. Romagnoli to the European Parliament.

Tricolour Flame is currently the Italian far right party more closely tied to the legacy of Italian Social Republic. The RSI is usually seen by the party as the example of what Fascism should have been, in particular as an example of true welfare state. As a sign of this legacy, Tricolour Flame, for example, guarantees free membership for ex-RSI military[1]. A press release from the Rome section of the Fiamma stated:

Tricolour Flame is a movement born just to remark its own ideal proximity to the Social Republic and its fighters. Republic on which side we would surely have fought, if only the fate would have let us born these years. And we should have surely fought to win, because for us the political synthesis originated from the thought of Benito Mussolini is for us the only political, economical and spiritual system able to bring the freedom and social justice that are today denied to Italians and all other world populations. [...][We] relaunch our battle for a better tomorrow, embodying the ideals of the Black Shirts of Alessandro Pavolini.

(Maurizio Boccacci, from [2])

Tricolur Flame maintains a fairly strong anti-capitalistic stance, and it can be thought to be the Italian party closest to third positionist ideology. This is in contrast with its practical belonging within the liberal House of Freedoms alliance, that actively supports free market.

Recently Tricolur Flame has been peculiar, among Italian neo-fascist organizations, in actively trying to attract the young masses and renewing its political practices and communication techniques in a more modern, innovative fashion. Political manifests often tend towards attractive, modern graphics and clear-cut, even humorous slogans. Tricolur Flame is also very close to youth far-right organizations and initiatives, of which the most relevant is the social center Casa Pound in Rome.

Among the more controversial elements of Tricolur Flame, there are Pietro Puschiavo and Maurizio Boccacci^[1]. Puschiavo has been a founding member (in 1985) of the Veneto Fronte Skinhead, a Nazi-Skinhead movement based in Veneto and connected to Blood and Honour. Boccacci is the former leader of the Movimento Politico Occidentale, a skinhead organization based in Rome.^[2]

1. ^ List of active members of Tricolour Flame, from their own website.
2. ^ Anti-Semitism Worldwide 1997/8, by the Stephen Roth Institute for the study of contemporary antisemitism and racism, Tel Aviv University.

• Footage of a Tricolur Flame rally in Rome

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