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The Identitarians Les Identitaires | |
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| President | Fabrice Robert |
| Founded | 6 April 2003 |
| Preceded by | Radical Unity |
| Headquarters | BP 13 06301 Nice Cedex 04 |
| Newspaper | Novopress |
| Youth wing | Generation Identity/Generation Identitaire (formerly) |
| Ideology | French nationalism Ethnopluralism Identitarianism Anti-Americanism Anti-Islam Neo-fascism Factions: Neo-Nazism |
| Political position | Far-right |
| Colours | Black, Blue |
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| les-identitaires.fr | |
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Les Identitaires (English: The Identitarians), formerly the Bloc identitaire[1] (English: Identitarian Bloc), is an Identitarian nationalist movement in France.[2][3][4][5][6][7] Like the French New Right, some generally consider the movement far-right or sometimes as a syncretic mixture of multiple ideologies across the political spectrum.[2][8][9][10][11]
Les Identitaires contain a number of strains of political thought including nativism, Catholic social teaching, direct democracy, regionalist decentralisation, and Yann Fouere's concept of a Europe of 100 Flags.[5] The group additionally advocates an anti-American and anti-Islamic foreign policy, calling the United States and Islam the two major imperialistic threats to Europe.[4]
It was founded in 2003 by some former members of Unité Radicale and several other anti-Zionist and National Bolshevik sympathisers. It includes Fabrice Robert, former Unité Radicale member, former elected representative of the National Front (FN) and also former member of the National Republican Movement (MNR), and Guillaume Luyt, former member of the monarchist Action française, former Unité Radicale member, former director of the youth organisation of the FN, National Front Youth (FNJ). Luyt claims inspiration by Guillaume Faye's works in the Nouvelle Droite movement.
The movement is widely considered neo-fascist, although Les Identitaires does not consider itself as such.[3][4] Génération Identitaire was banned in March 2021.[12] On 14 February 2023, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) released a report in which it classified Les Identitaires as a "white nationalist" and "Anti-Muslim" group.[13][14]
- ^ "Génération identitaire : des militants d'extrême droite à la com' bien rodée" (in French). LCI. 22 April 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2019.
- ^ a b Kleinfeld, Philip (9 January 2015). "A Close Look at the French Far Right". Vice News. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ a b Valencia-García, Louie Dean (22 February 2018). "Generation Identity: A Millennial Fascism for the Future?". EuropeNow Journal. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ a b c Staff (12 October 2015). "American Racists Work to Spread 'Identitarian' Ideology". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ a b Haydn Rippon (2 November 2012), "Occupy Le Mosque: France's New Radical Nativism", The Conversation – via Boston University
- ^ Feder, J. Lester (4 May 2018). "Facebook Targets Major White Nationalist Group In France". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ Beirich, Heidi (21 November 2014). "Identitarianism Worldwide". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
- ^ « Le mouvement d'extrême droite Bloc identitaire se lance dans les régionales », Le Point, 17 octobre 2009
- ^ Abel Mestre et Caroline Monnot, « Du Bloc identitaire au FN, l'extrême droite française se concentre sur la peur de l'islam », Le Monde, 1 décembre 2009
- ^ Rémi Noyon (interviewer), Stéphane François (interviewé), « Oubliez "Game of Thrones" : les identitaires ont des théories plus folles », Rue89, 11 mai 2014.
- ^ Cependant, Jean-Yves Camus classe le BI non à l'extrême droite, mais « à droite de la droite » : « Oskar Freysinger et ses inquiétantes fréquentations européennes » Archived 4 June 2012 at archive.today (interview par Patricia Briel), Le Temps, 18 novembre 2010, le BI promeut l'« alter-Europe » et une certaine forme de régionalisme
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autowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ "GPAHE report: Far-Right Hate and Extremist Groups in Australia". Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
- ^ Conge, Paul (14 February 2023). "Un rapport américain s'inquiète de l'essor des "groupes d'extrême droite haineux" en France". www.marianne.net (in French). Retrieved 7 April 2023.