The leader of Greece's Golden Dawn party, Nikos Michaloliakos, and more than 70 party members will be tried on charges including murder and belonging to a criminal group.
All 18 of the far-right party's MPs in the previous Greek parliament are among the defendants.
The crackdown follows an investigation into the 2013 murder of an anti-racist rapper by a Golden Dawn supporter.
The anti-immigrant party came third in January's elections with 6.3%.
Golden Dawn says it has no involvement in any violent activities and rejects the charges.
But it has also been linked to the murder of a Pakistani immigrant and beatings of political opponents.
Nazi paraphernalia has been found at MPs' houses and witnesses interviewed have talked of party "hit squads" formed to attack rivals.
A total of 72 people will stand trial on a date yet to be announced, judicial sources said.
Several of the lawmakers, including party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, are in pre-trial detention.
Most of the defendants will be tried for being part of a criminal organisation - a serious offence in Greece - while others are accused of crimes ranging from murder to conspiracy to murder, possession of weapons and racist violence.
It comes after an investigation into the 2013 murder of a left-wing, anti-racist rapper, Pavlos Fyssas. A man held for the stabbing claimed to be a Golden Dawn supporter, though the party denied any link to him.
Some of the defendants, who include police officers, face sentences of up to 20 years in prison.
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