Gabriele Adinolfi

Gabriele Adinolfi (Rome, January 3 1954) is an Italian far right ideologue and essayist. He was one of the prominent characters of the 1970's extraparliamentary far right.

Biography

Early political career and Terza Posizione

Adinolfi starts his political activity in the years of student protest. In 1968 he is into the Roman Italian Social Movement scene, in particular being active in the "Filippo Anfuso" section in via Livorno (next to Piazza Bologna).

From 1970 he begins to join far right extraparliamentary movements: the Fronte Studentesco, then Avanguardia Nazionale, Lotta di Popolo and, in the end, Alternativa Studentesca. Together with Giuseppe Dimitri and Roberto Fiore, in 1976, he is one of the founders of Lotta Studentesca, in the bookshop of Walter Spedicato. In 1977 Lotta Studentesca becomes Terza Posizione, which will be one of the most important extraparliamentary far right movements.

Takedown of Terza Posizione and exhile

In the investigations following the Bologna Massacre (and the discovery of explosives being smuggled by members of Terza Posizione in Rome during a casual control) an arrest warrant is issued the August 28 1980 for Adinolfi, Fiore and other 26 far right exponents. Interrogations take place in Ferrara, Rome, Padua and Parma. The September 23, 1980 Terza Posizione is declared illegal. Another arrest warrant is declared, for the crime of subversive association.

Adinolfi was found guilty of associative and ideologous crimes, and flees abroad, settling in France. He will sometimes clandestinely come back and forth from Italy, following the evolution of the far right scene.

In 1982 in Paris Adinolfi collaborates in the realization of three numbers of the journals "Terza Posizione" and "Dixie", this one focused on finance and power. In the same year, Adinolfi and Spedicato give life to the "Centro Studi Orientamenti e Ricerca" ("Scholarship Center for Orientation and Research") in which they elaborate five political documents and ten years of trimonthly bulletins. "Orientamenti e Ricerca" will end publications in 1995, with the death of Spedicato.

Back in Italy

In 2000 Adinolfi can come back in Italy for prescription. He is since then one of the most active and innovative ideologues and thinkers of the Italian far right scene. He proposes a socially oriented, anti-globalization, uncompromised far right politics. His political analysis is peculiar for the combination of uncompromised far right ideology and strive for objectivity (for example, he regularly stated that the far right should honour Ernesto Che Guevara, regardless of him being Communist, because of his human and political virtues). He coordinates the journal "Orion" and the far right news website NoReporter. He also backed initiatives like the "Guardia d'Onore Mussolini" ("Mussolini Guard Of Honour", a voluntary organization that guards the Mussolini grave in Predappio) and the recent explosion of far right squats, of which the most famous is Casa Pound. He currently leads the "Centro Studi Polaris" ("Polaris Scholarship Center"), a think-tank of far-right politics.

He is author of several books, among them "Noi Terza Posizione" ("We, Third Position") with Roberto Fiore, on the Terza Posizione movement, and "Quel domani che ci appartenne" ("That Tomorrow that Belonged to Us").