A list of political parties, organizations, and movements adhering to various forms of fascist ideology, part of the list of fascist movements by country.
Logo | Name of movement | Country of predominant operation | Came to power? | Founded post-World War II? | Active? | General influence | Flag | Notes |
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Action Front of National Socialists/National Activists | Germany | No | Yes (1977) | No | Nazism | | Banned in 1983 | |
Artgemeinschaft | Germany | No | Yes (1951) | Yes | Esoteric Nazism | |||
Black Front | Germany | No | No (1930) | No | Strasserism | Banned in 1933 | ||
Deutsche Heidnische Front | Germany | No | Yes (1998) | No | Neo-Nazism | |||
German Reich Party | Germany | No | Yes (1950) | No | Neo-Nazism | |||
Free German Workers' Party [1] | Germany | No | Yes (1977) | No | Neo-Nazism/Strasserism | | Split in the late 1980s | |
German Alternative | Germany | No | Yes (1989) | No | Neo-Nazism | |||
German Social Union | Germany | No | Yes (1956) | No | Strasserism | |||
German Workers' Party | Germany | No | No (1919) | No | Völkism | Succeeded by the National Socialist German Workers' Party | ||
Military-sports-group Hoffmann | Germany | Yes | Yes (1973) | No | Neo-Nazism | Fascist terrorist gang | ||
National Socialist German Workers' Party | Germany | Yes | No (1920) | No | Nazism | Succeeded by the Socialist Reich Party (de facto) | ||
Nationalist Front [2] | Germany | No | Yes (1985) | No | Strasserism | Banned in 1992. | ||
National Offensive | Germany | No | Yes (1990) | No | Neo-Nazism | Banned in 1992. | ||
National Democratic Party of Germany | Germany | No | Yes | Yes | Neo-Nazism | | ||
The Immortals | Germany | No | Yes | No | Neo-Nazism | |||
The III. Path | Germany | No | Yes (2013) | Yes | Neo-Nazism | |||
The Right | Germany | No | Yes (2012) | Yes | Neo-Nazism | | ||
Socialist Reich Party | Germany | No | Yes (1949) | No | Neo-Nazism | Fragmented from German Empire Party; banned 1952 | ||
Wiking-Jugend | Germany | No | Yes (1952) | No | Neo-Nazism | |||
HIAG | West Germany | No | Yes (1951) | No | Neo-Nazism | Fragmented from German Empire Party; banned 1952 | ||
Front Line | Greece | No | Yes (1999) | No | Metaxism | |||
General Popular Radical Union | Greece | Yes | No (1932) | No | independent, Italian fascism | Led by Georgios Kondylis | ||
Golden Dawn | Greece | No | Yes (1980) | Yes | Metaxism, [3] [4] [5] Neo-Nazism | |||
Greek National Socialist Party [6] | Greece | No | No (1932) | No | Nazism | Founded by George S. Mercouris | ||
Hellenic Socialist Patriotic Organisation | Greece | No | No (1941) | No | Nazism | |||
National Party – Greeks | Greece | No | Yes (2020) | de facto banned | Neo-fascism | Split from Golden Dawn | ||
National Political Union | Greece | No | Yes (1984) | No | Metaxism | Founded by Georgios Papadopoulos | ||
National Popular Consciousness | Greece | No | Yes (2019) | No | Metaxism, Neo-Nazism | Split from Golden Dawn | ||
National Reform Party | Greece | No | No (1935) | No | Italian fascism | |||
National Union of Greece [7] | Greece | No | No (1927) | No | independent | |||
Party of Free Opinion [8] | Greece | No (its leader did) | No (1922) | No | Metaxism | The political party led by Greek dictator Ioannis Metaxas | ||
Spartans | Greece | No | Yes (2017) | Yes | Neo-fascism | National Party merged into them | ||
National Unity Party | Haiti | Yes | Yes (1957) | No | Tropical fascism | Founded by François Duvalier | ||
Arrow Cross Party | Hungary | Yes | No (1935) | No | Hungarist | Founded as “Party of National Will” | ||
Christian National Socialist Front | Hungary | No | No (1937) | No | Nazism | |||
Hungarian National Socialist Agricultural Labourers' and Workers' Party | Hungary | No | No (1932) | No | Nazism | |||
Hungarian National Defence Association [6] | Hungary | No | No (1919) | No | independent/Italian Fascism | Also known as Szeged Fascists | ||
Hungarian National Front | Hungary | No | Yes (1989) | No | Neo-Nazism | |||
Hungarian National Socialist Party [6] | Hungary | No | No (1920s–1930s) | No | independent/Nazism | Name used by several groups | ||
National Front | Hungary | No | No (1936) | No | Nazism | |||
Pax Hungarica Movement | Hungary | No | Yes (2008) | No | Neo-Nazism | |||
United Hungarian National Socialist Party | Hungary | No | No (1932) | No | Nazism | |||
Unity Party | Hungary | Yes | No (2008) | No | Szeged Idea | |||
Nationalist Party [9] | Iceland | No | No (1934) | No | light Fascism | |||
Aria Party [10] | Iran | No | Yes (1946) | No | independent | |||
Azure Party | Iran | No | No (1942) | No | Fascism, Nazism | |||
Nation Party of Iran | Iran | No | Yes (1951) | Yes | independent | | ||
Pan-Iranist Party | Iran | No | No (1941) | Yes | Independent | |||
Sumka | Iran | No | Yes (1952) | Yes | Nazism | Founded by Dr. Davud Monshizadeh in December 6, 1941 (unofficially) or October 13, 1952 (officially) | ||
Resurgence Party | Iran | Yes | Yes (1975) | No | Fascism [11] [12] | |||
Al-Muthanna Club | Iraq | No | No (1935) | No | Nazism | Founded by former Iraqi cabinet minister Saib Shawkat | ||
Ailtirí na hAiséirghe ("Architects of the Resurrection") [13] | Ireland | No | No (1942) | No | Fascism, Irish nationalism, Roman Catholicism | Founded by Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin | ||
Córas na Poblachta ("Republican System") | Ireland | No | No (1940) | No | Fascism, Irish nationalism, Roman Catholicism | |||
National Socialist Irish Workers Party | Ireland | No | Yes (1968) | No | Neo-Nazism | Dissolved in late 1980s | ||
National Corporate Party | Ireland | No | No (1934) | No | Clerical Fascism | Member of the Fascist International | ||
Army Comrades Association | Ireland | No | No (1932) | No | Fascism, Irish nationalism | Founded by Eoin O'Duffy, better known as the Blueshirts | ||
Brit HaBirionim | Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine) | No | No (1930) | No | Italian Fascism, Revisionist Maximalism | Founded by of Dr. Abba Ahimeir, Uri Zvi Greenberg and Dr. Joshua Yeivin. | ||
Kach/Kahane Chai | Israel | No | Yes (1971) | No | Kahanism, Halachic state, Zionism | Founded by Rabbi Meir Kahane, banned in 1994. | ||
Lehi [14] [15] [16] [17] | Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine) | No | No (1940) | No | Fascism, [14] [15] [17] [18] Revisionist Zionism, National Bolshevism [19] | Since 1942, Lehi was not fascist; from 1944, Lehi was national bolshevist. | ||
Patrol 36 | Israel | No | Yes (2005) | No | Neo-Nazism, Antisemitism | |||
Armed Revolutionary Nuclei | Italy | No | Yes (1977) | No | Italian Fascism | Terrorist organization | ||
CasaPound | Italy | No | Yes (2003) | Yes | Italian Fascism | Founded by Gianluca Iannone | ||
Fascism and Freedom Movement | Italy | No | Yes (1991) | Yes | Italian Fascism | Founded by Giorgio Pisanò | ||
Fasci Italiani di Combattimento | Italy | No | No (1919) | No | Italian Fascism | Succeeded by PNF | ||
Forza Nuova | Italy | No | Yes | Yes | Italian Fascism | | ||
Fronte Sociale Nazionale | Italy | No | Yes (1997) | Yes | Italian Fascism | Broke from Tricolour Flame; member of Alternativa Sociale | ||
Italian Social Movement | Italy | No | Yes (1946) | No | Italian Fascism | MSI | ||
National Fascist Party (PNF) | Italy | Yes | No (1921) | No | Italian Fascism | Disbanded 1943; succeeded by PFR | ||
National Vanguard (PNF) | Italy | Yes | Yes (1960) | No | Neo-Nazism | Took part in Golpe Borghese | ||
Ordine Nuovo | Italy | No | Yes (1956) | No | Italian Fascism | Terrorist organization | ||
Ordine Nero | Italy | No | Yes (1974) | No | Italian Fascism | Terrorist organization | ||
Republican Fascist Party (PFR) | Italy (RSI) | Yes | No (1943) | No | Italian Fascism | Disbanded 1945; succeeded by MSI | ||
Terza Posizione | Italy | No | Yes (1979) | No | Independent | Disbanded 1980 | ||
Tricolour Flame | Italy | No | Yes (1995) | Yes | Italian Fascism | Splinter group of MSI | ||
National Socialist Japanese Workers' Party | Japan | No | Yes | Yes | Neo-Nazism | |||
Tohokai ("Eastern Society") | Japan | No | No (1936) | No | Japanese fascism | In October 1940 it briefly merged into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association which it later broke away from in 1941, banned after the war. | ||
Korean National Youth Association | Korea | No | Yes (1946) | No | Fascism | |||
Pērkonkrusts [9] | Latvia | No | No (1932) | Yes | Independent | Banned after 1944; reformed after the resumption of Latvian independence | ||
German National Movement in Liechtenstein | Liechtenstein | No | No (1938) | No | Nazism | |||
Liechtenstein Homeland Service | Liechtenstein | No | No (1933) | No | Corporate statism, Nazism (later) [20] | |||
Kataeb Party | Lebanon | Yes | No (1936) | Yes | Falangism (former) | Moved to centre-right, Christian Democracy | ||
Kokumin Dōmei | Japan | No | No (1932) | No | Japanese fascism | Dissolved on 26 July 1940, merged into the Imperial Rule Assistance Association | ||
Kuomintang-Nanjing | China | Yes | No (1939) | No | Fascism | Established by Chinese Collaborators in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War; dissolved in 16 August 1945. | ||
Lithuanian Nationalist Union | Lithuania | Yes | No (1924) | No | Fascist corporatism, Clerical fascism | |||
Iron Wolves [6] | Lithuania | Yes | No (1927) | No | Clerical fascism | Movement within the Clerical Party | ||
Union of Christian Socialist Workers of the Memel Region | Memel Territory (today Lithuania) | Yes | No (1927) | No | Nazism | Banned | ||
Imperium Europa | Malta | No | Yes (2000) | Yes | Neo-fascism | |||
Concordia Association | Manchukuo | Yes | No (1931) | No | Fascism, Manchurian nationalism | | ||
Russian Fascist Organization | Manchukuo | No | No (1925) | No | Italian Fascism, Russian nationalism | Within the Russian emigrants | ||
Russian Fascist Party | Manchukuo | No | No (1931) | No | Italian Fascism, Russian nationalism | Within the Russian emigrants | ||
Gold Shirts [6] | Mexico | No | No (1933) | No | Fascism | Banned after Mexico joined the Allies in 1942 | ||
Mexican Democratic Party | Mexico | No | Yes (1975) | No | Falangism/Clerical fascism | Front party of the National Synarchist Union | ||
Mexican Fascist Party | Mexico | No | No (1923) | No | Italian Fascism | |||
National Synarchist Union | Mexico | No | No (1937) | Yes | Falangism/Clerical fascism | |||
Nationalist Front of Mexico | Mexico | No | Yes (2006) | Yes | Neo-fascism | |||
Partido Nacional-Socialista de México | Mexico | No | Yes | Yes | Neo-Nazism | |||
Social Alliance Party | Mexico | No | Yes (1998) | No | Christian right | Front party of the National Synarchist Union | ||
Tsagaan Khas | Mongolia | No | Yes (1984) | Yes | Neo-Nazism, Sinophobia, Resource nationalism | | ||
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