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1975
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How to Cite

Crenshaw, M., & Robinson, K. (2025). Mapping Militants Project. Rice University. https://doi.org/10.25613/G0K4-WF70

Mapping Militants Project. “Armed Communist Formations.” Last modified . https://mappingmilitants.org/node/333/

Profile Contents

Narrative

Narrative of the Organization's History

Organization

Leadership, Name Changes, Size Estimates, Resources, Geographic Locations

Strategy

Ideology, Aims, Political Activities, Targets, and Tactics

Interactions

Foreign Designations and Listings, Community Relations, Relations with Other Groups, State Sponsors and External Influences

Maps

Mapping relationships with other militant groups over time in regional maps

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Overview
Formed: 
January 1, 1975
Disbanded: 
January 1, 1976

Armed Communist Formations (FCA) was a small short-lived, left-wing Italian group active primarily in Milan, Florence, and Rome, beginning in 1975. It had at most two dozen members. It is notable mostly for its many connections to other groups. Like many other Italian left-wing terrorist groups, it formed after the dissolution of the legal left-wing organization Worker Power. One of FCA's leaders helped form the Roman branch of the Red Brigades, Italy's main left-wing terrorist group; other FCA members founded the Union of Communist Combatants (UCC); still others founded Communist Revolutionary Committees (CoCoRi). FCA committed a handful of sabotage attacks and one intentional wounding over its year-and-a-half lifespan, and like other left-wing terrorist groups, used a variety of names. The group dissolved when most of its members left to join the Red Brigades.

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