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Far-right social centres are community spaces inspired by neo-fascist and Third Position ideas. The most famous is the Italian movement CasaPound.
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Italy
First far-right social centres were founded in Italy in 1980s. In 1990 members of Fronte della Gioventù of the Italian Social Movement squatted a building in Rome and founded social center Il Bartolo. In 1998 Italian activists squatted a building in Rome and created a social center PortAperta. They organized some concerts in the building.
In 2002 neo-fascists squatted a building in and created social center CasaMontag. On 20 September 2002 Italian nationalists squatted a building in Rome and created a social center Foro 753.
CasaPound
On 26 December 2003 Italian neo-fascists squatted a building in Esquiline Hill and founded a social center CasaPound. In June 2008 CasaPound therefore constituted an "association of social promotion" and assumed the current name CasaPound Italy. Currently the movement CPI has a lot of social centres in Italy. Some of them are Circolo Futurista Casalbertone in Rome and Casa d'Italia in Colleverde. Social center Area 19 was evicted in 2015.
Spain
In Spain there are far-right social centres in Madrid and Zaragoza. Hogar Social Zaragoza is a building squatted in June 2014. Hogar Social Ramiro Ledesma (Ramiro Ledesma Social Home) is a movement founded in 2014 in Madrid. Members of HSM squatted some buildings and organized demonstrations with some thousands participants.
Ukraine
In 2016 members of Azov Battalion founded a social center Cossack House (Ukrainian: Козацький Дім) in Azov HQ in Kiev. As they said, they are inspired by Italian CasaPound. In the building there are a library of the literary club "Flame" (Ukrainian: Літературний клуб "Пломінь"), sports club, a recording studio and tattoo saloon.
Other countries
Also In Germany nationalists trying to found their own social centres.