| Italian Fasci of Combat
Fasci Italiani di Combattimento
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| Abbreviation | FIC |
| Leader(s) | Benito Mussolini |
| Founded | 23 March 1919 |
| Dissolved | 9 November 1921 |
| Merger of | Fasci d'Azione Internazionalista Fasci Autonomi d'Azione Rivoluzionaria Futurist Political Party |
| Split from | Italian Socialist Party |
| Succeeded by | National Fascist Party |
| Headquarters | Milan |
| Newspaper | Il Popolo d'Italia |
| Ideology | Italian Fascism Republicanism Sansepolcrismo National syndicalism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Color(s) | Black |
The Italian Fasci of Combat (Italian: Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, FIC), until 1919 called Fasci of Revolutionary Action (Italian: Fasci d'Azione Rivoluzionaria, FAR), was an Italian fascio organization, created by Benito Mussolini in 1914. Its associated political party was the Revolutionary Fascist Party (Partito Fascista Rivoluzionario, PFR).
Its ideology was based around Italian nationalism and support for the Italian intervention in the Great War, as well as republicanism and a form of non-class struggle based "socialism" sometimes labelled national syndicalism. It was decidedly "third position", hoping to unite left-wing syndicalists with right-wing liberals, conservatives and nationalists.
In the 1921 elections it took part in an electoral alliance known as the National Blocs, which included the Italian Liberal Party. It was succeeded by the National Fascist Party as part of a concession to the right-wing of the party by Mussolini. He had personally preferred a more proletarian-oriented name like “Fascist Labor Party” or “National Labor Party”.
Some figures who initially supported the movement would later reject it. Among them was trade unionist Alceste De Ambris, who would go on to support the Arditi del Popolo.