National Liberation Front of Corsica (1976-1990)

National Liberation Front of Corsica
Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica
Leaders	Direzione (1976-1979) Cunsigliu and Ghjunta (1979-1988) National Congress (1988-1990)
Foundation	5 May 1976
Dissolved	17 October 1990
Merger of	Corsican Peasant Front for Liberation Ghjustizia Paolina
Split to	Resistenza FLNC-Canal Historique FLNC-Canal Habituel
Ideology	Corsican Nationalism Marxism-Leninism
Political position	Far-left
Allies	Provisional Irish Republican Army Euskadi ta Askatasuna Breton Revolutionary Army Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front Caribbean Revolutionary Alliance Fatah Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine Czechoslovakia Libya (allegedly)
Opponents	France New Action Front Against Independence and Autonomy Belgium
Battles and wars	Corsican conflict

The National Liberation Front of Corsica (Corsican: Fronte di Liberazione Naziunale di a Corsica, abbreviated FLNC), informally known as “the front” (Corsican: u fronte) was a Corsican nationalist guerrilla and paramilitary organization formed on 5 May 1976. The group formed to violently overthrow French rule in Corsica to establish an independent Corsican state. It was the first group to form during the Corsican conflict, and the first to use the name “National Liberation Front of Corsica”. The group was declared an unlawful organization in 1983 and ordered to dissolve, but continued to operate regardless of the ruling.

The FLNC engaged the French in a guerrilla war in Corsica throughout its existence, defining the early period of the Corsican conflict. FLNC attacks were primarily in Corsica, but attacks on the French mainland were also common, mostly along the French Riviera and in Paris. The FLNC was allied with many other separatist armed organizations in Europe, as well as Palestinian militant groups. The FLNC declared a ceasefire twice during its existence: Once in 1981 for the Defferre agreements, and once in May 1988 to open dialogue with the recently re-elected Mitterand government. The latter ceasefire was extremely controversial, and led to the implosion of the group and the creation of Resistenza, the FLNC-Canal Habituel, and the FLNC-Canal Historique.