The Independent Front (French: Front de l'Indépendance, pronounced [fʁɔ̃ də lɛ̃depɑ̃dɑ̃s], FI; Dutch: Onafhankelijkheidsfront, pronounced [ˌɔn.ɑfˈɦɑŋkələkɦɛitsˌfrɔnt], OF) was a left-wing faction of the Belgian Resistance in German-occupied Belgium in World War II.

[1] The FI established sabotage operations, escape routes and a false document service, and distributed 250 different underground publications.

This essential part of the war, in the area of information, found a culmination of sorts in the publication by the Front on 9 November 1943 of Faux Soir, a spoof version of the Le Soir newspaper circulated under the noses of the occupation authorities.

He came back in May with the first reliable report on their fate, as well as with detailed information on the functioning of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

By the end of the war, it had formed alliances with representatives of a large number of institutions, including:[3]