Abstract
The paper deals with the issue of the Left-wing radicalism and terrorism, developed from the extra-parliamentary movement and from the student protests in Italy in the late 1960s. It presents the homegrown factors of radicalization of the movement.
The main analyzed factors are the neo-Fascist bombings and the "Strategy of Tension", the tradition of the anti-Fascist resistance, the policy of the Italian Communist Party and the influence of the wealthy terrorists' benefactor Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. The paper provides a brief introduction in the positions and the specifics of the most important radical groups - the Continuous Struggle, the Workers' Power and October 22 Group, as well as the Red Brigades and its predecessors (Political Metropolitan Collective, the Group of the Apartment).
The factors of the radicalization are analyzed on the example of these groups.