National Liberation Front
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National Liberation Front is a common name for guerrilla organization fighting to free their country from foreign rule, or at least claiming to be such an organization. The term is typically associated with left wing politics, however militant right wing and even fascist movements use the term. National liberation fronts typically appeal to a radical nation, in the 19th century sense, or to a reactionary nationalism in the 20th century sense.
National Liberation Fronts include:
- An Albanian guerrilla group fighting Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany during World War II. The group was led by Enver Hoxha, who later became prime minister of Albania. See History of Albania.
- Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia
- Armed Forces of National Liberation
- Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia
- Boricua Popular Army
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front
- The Front de Libération Nationale, an Algerian group fighting for independence from France during the 1950s and 1960s, which later became the sole Algerian party, and is now one among many Algerian parties.
- Gorkha National Liberation Front
- Gorkha National Liberation Front (C.K. Pradhan)
- Irgun Zvai Leumi - National Military Organization (Israel)
- Irish National Liberation Army
- Lehi (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel)
- National Liberation Front in South Arabia - in today's Yemen
- National Front for the Liberation of Corsica
- The National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, also known as the "Viet Cong," a guerrilla group fighting the United States Army and the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War.
- National Liberation Army of Iran
- National Liberation Front - Bahrain
- National Liberation Front - Burundi (FROLINA)
- National Liberation Front of Tripura
- National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti
- Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
- Sandinista National Liberation Front
- Scottish National Liberation Army
- Uganda National Liberation Front
- Zapatista Army of National Liberation
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