National Liberation Front - Definition and Overview

National Liberation Front is a common name for guerrilla organisations fighting to free their country from foreign rule, or at least claiming to be such an organisation. 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• Sandinista National Liberation Front

• Irish National Liberation Army

• Zapatista Army of National Liberation

• National Liberation Army of Iran

• Scottish National Liberation Army

• Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front

• Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

• National Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of Haiti

• Uganda National Liberation Front

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• National Liberation Front of Tripura

• Armed Forces of National Liberation

• Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia

• National Front for the Liberation of Corsica

• Boricua Popular Army

See also: National Front National Liberation Army