Communist Combat Formations

Communist Combat Formations (FCC) was among Italy's four largest and most active left-wing terrorist groups. It was active primarily in Northern Italy during the late 1970s. The FCC formed in Milan when members of a left-wing magazine, "Rosso," decided to take up arms. The FCC shared broad revolutionary goals with other left-wing terrorist groups, the two largest being the Red Brigades (BR) and Prima Linea (PL). The chief aim of all these groups was to overthrow the state and replace it with a dictatorship of the proletariat. The FCC however grew to only slightly over a hundred members and claimed a few dozen attacks, in contrast to the BR and the PL, which claimed thousands of members and hundreds of attacks between them. The group dissolved due to arrests. Some of its members joined the BR and some gave up the armed struggle altogether.