National Fascist Party

The National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was the far-right fascist political party of Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian fascism and as a reorganisation of the earlier Italian Fasces of Combat. It ruled the Kingdom of Italy from the March on Rome in 1922 until the fall of the Fascist regime in 1943, when Mussolini was deposed by the Grand Council of Fascism, and it was dissolved at the end of the Second World War. Its Republican Fascist Party successor operated in the territories of the Italian Social Republic. The party was rooted in Italian nationalism and the aim of restoring and expanding Italian territory, promoted a corporatist economic system and autarky, and took socially conservative stances. It opposed liberalism and Marxist socialism. The Constitution of Italy forbids reorganizing the dissolved Fascist party in any form.