Tag Archives: France

Macronism vs. Radical Islam

Robert Hampton

1,290 words

Polish version here

French President Emmanuel Macron issued a declaration of war this month against radical Islam after a school teacher was stabbed to death for showing Muhammad cartoons to his class. “What we must attack is Islamist separatism,” Macron said earlier this month. The president emphasized that “secularism is the cement Read more …

Published: October 28, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charlie Hebdo, civic nationalism, Emmanuel Macron, Islam, Islamic terrorism, liberalism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton, secularism, white dispossession | 37 Responses

Macron: Between Naïveté & Impotence

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Nicolas Gauthier: With his speech at Les Mureaux, and his promise to begin fighting “Islamic separatism,” Emmanuel Macron seems to have discovered previously unglimpsed realities. Is this to his credit? Can we say that he is now regaining control?

Alain de Benoist: Macron has many faults, but he’s not a complete idiot. Read more …

Published: October 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, articles, Emmanuel Macron, Foreign Policy, Islam, liberalism, metapolitics, North American New Right, reprints, Russia, secularism, Turkey | 9 Responses

Jacques Mesrine:
“The Man of a Thousand Faces”

1,669 words

A blue lorry, a tarpaulin over the back, drew up alongside the BMW. The driver signaled to Mesrine that he wanted to cut across him to turn right. Mesrine waved him on and then noticed with apprehension that another lorry was drawn up behind him. The first lorry drove in front of him and stopped suddenly, right in the path of the BMW. Read more …

Published: October 21, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Algeria, articles, crime, espionage, Fenek Solère, Jacques Mesrine, North American New Right, Organisation armée secrète, originals, terrorism | Leave a comment

Trump, for Lack of Something Better

Phil Eiger Newmann, Don’t Tread on Us, 2020.

971 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

The US presidential election is fast approaching. Personally, do you want Donald Trump to be re-elected? Would a second term of this president please you, if only to see the faces of his opponents, American and European?

Alain de Benoist: I would like his re-election, but by default, for lack of something better. As you know, this character doesn’t thrill me that much. Read more …

Published: October 16, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2020 presidential election, Alain de Benoist, articles, Donald Trump, Europe, Foreign Policy, geopolitics, identity politics, in translation, Israel, North American New Right, reprints, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey | 13 Responses

The Specter of Saint-Domingue
Part II: The Horror of Saint-Domingue in the Antebellum South

Giles Corey

Auguste Raffet, Attack and take of the Crête-à-Pierrot, 1839.

2,671 words

Part I

As Saint-Domingue sank ever deeper beneath the churning waves of black filth, those whites fortunate enough to survive fled for the greater Caribbean, including the antebellum American South. The colonists were no longer welcome in their home of France, Read more …

Published: October 14, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, antebellum South, articles, colonialism, Giles Corey, Haiti, John Brown, North American New Right, originals, post-colonialism, Saint-Domingue, San Domingo, slavery, the Civil War, the South, Toussaint Louverture | 28 Responses

The Specter of Saint-Domingue
Part I: White Genocide

Giles Corey

Pierre-Jean Boquet, The Burning of Cap Français, 1791.

7,803 words

The monumental significance of the fall of Saint-Domingue, the crown jewel of the French colonial empire, and its ensuant descent into the African savagery of Haiti cannot be overstated. The terrible birth of Haiti as a mangled, stillborn phoenix from a river of white blood Read more …

Published: October 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alfred N. Hunt, articles, colonialism, Giles Corey, H. D. de Saint-Maurice, Haiti, Jeremy D. Popkin, Leonora Sansay, Lothrop Stoddard, Makandal, Michel-Etienne Descourtilz, North American New Right, originals, post-colonialism, revolution, Saint-Domingue, San Domingo, Sir Spenser St. John, slave revolt, slavery, the Enlightenment, the French Empire, the French Revolution, Toussaint Louverture, violence, white genocide | 27 Responses

Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part III: Excursus on Evola

James J. O'Meara

3,927 words

Part 1, Part 2

All this anti-Masonry and TradCath stuff; there was something familiar with all this, until at some point I exclaimed again, “You’ve seen these films before, haven’t you, my man!” It’s Baron Evola’s doppelganger!

Although to be honest, it may have been Will herself who clued me in. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, art, articles, Barbara Will, Bernard Faÿ, book reviews, Catholicism, Christianity, fascism, Freemasonry, Gertrude Stein, homosexuality, identity, James J. O'Meara, Jews in literature, Julius Evola, liberalism, modernism, North American New Right, originals, Traditionalism, Vichy France | 8 Responses

Notre Dame des Fascistes,
Part II: Special Friendships

James J. O'Meara

4,241 words

Part 1

Other than living near types like Faÿ, Toklas, and the guys, Stein had “indirect ties, notably through her close friendship with a French personalist philosopher named Henri Daniel-Rops.” Read more …

Published: August 12, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Archeofuturism, articles, Bernard Faÿ, book reviews, decadence, Freemasonry, Gertrude Stein, Henri Daniel-Rops, homosexuality, James J. O'Meara, Marcel Lefebvre, modernism, North American New Right, originals, post-war Europe, the Catholic church, Traditionalism, utopianism, Vichy France | 1 Response

Brigitte Bardot’s B. B.

Scott Weisswald

1,920 words

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a famed French actress, singer, pop culture icon, and accidental provocateur. Bardot’s marks on pop culture include her popularization of the bikini, the eponymous Bardot neckline, and her collection of absurdly fun and often intriguing slices of French pop music that feel both timeless in their replay value yet Read more …

Published: June 19, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged animal rights, articles, integrity, jazz, music reviews, North American New Right, originals, pop music, Scott Weisswald, the 1960s | 6 Responses

Alain de Benoist on France’s Response to the Coronavirus

Alain de Benoist

888 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Now that things seem to be on the mend, can we say that the government, even if manifestly taken aback, has done too much, too little, or just enough in the face of the epidemic?

There is no other word for it: the reaction of the authorities to Covid-19 has been truly calamitous. Five months after the start of the epidemic, we still have not reached the screening capacity that we should have had when the first deaths appeared. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, coronavirus, COVID-19, Globalvirus, interviews, North American New Right, originals, translations | 5 Responses

In Search of Céline

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Claude Sarraute: “And what, in your opinion, is the tragic element of our epoch?”

Céline: “Stalingrad. There’s the catharsis for you. The fall of Stalingrad was the end of Europe. There’s a cataclysm. The epicenter was Stalingrad. After that you can say white civilization was finished, really washed up.” Read more …

Published: May 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, creativity, culture distortion, Fenek Solère, French literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, North American New Right, orignals, the Jewish question, writing | 15 Responses

The Martyrdom of Robert Brasillach

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“The James Dean of French Fascism.”– Alice Kaplan, author of The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach (2001)

Such a description of the puny, bespectacled, and boyish-looking poet — especially coming from the daughter of a Nuremberg prosecutor — seems to be either thinly barbed facetiousness or malignant irony. Read more …

Published: March 31, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, Fenek Solère, French literature, Je Suis Partout, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach, Vichy France | 5 Responses

Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 264
Four French Collaborationists:
Châteaubriant, Céline, Drieu, Brasillach

Michael Walker

Alphonse de Châteaubriant

369 words / 58:30

To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.”

This is a lost London Forum talk by Michael Walker on four French artists of the Right: Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Robert Brasillach. Read more …

Published: March 13, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Catholicism, literature, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Michael Walker, National Socialism, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, podcasts, Robert Brasillach, The London Forum, World War II | 6 Responses

Remembering Pierre Drieu La Rochelle:
January 3, 1893–March 15, 1945

Greg Johnson

97 words

Pierre Drieu La Rochelle was born on this day in 1893. In commemoration, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site:

Maurice Bardèche, “Bardèche’s Six Postulates of Fascist Socialism” (Ukrainian translation here)

Published: January 3, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commemorations, fascism, literature, North American New Right, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle | Leave a comment

Charles de Gaulle, Algeria, & the JQ

Margot Metroland

2,957 words

Today I wish to talk about Charles de Gaulle and some seldom-examined aspects of the Algerian Crisis that spanned 1954 to 1962. But in order to edge into all that, I first have to talk about one of my favorite and oft-viewed movies, The Day of the Jackal (1973; the original version).

De Gaulle himself is a character in that film, since the whole plot revolves around assassination attempts on him in the early 1960s. Read more …

Published: August 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Algeria, Algerian war, articles, Charles De Gaulle, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | 9 Responses

Whose Notre Dame?

Robert Hampton

Notre Dame today

1,548 words

Notre Dame de Paris burned this week in a fitting metaphor for our civilization. We all watched as the spire crumbled in real time and the fire ripped through the interior, feeling helpless before the inevitable march of history.

Published: April 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholic Church, degeneration, modernism, North American New Right, originals, Robert Hampton | 24 Responses

De Gaulle & the Algerian War

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Lieutenant Le Pen being decorated by General Jacques Massu

1,431 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 396-398. The title is editorial.

[The civil war between Gaullists and anti-Gaullists] calmed down somewhat in the 1950s, or shifted to other areas. It came into focus again with Algeria. Read more …

Published: April 19, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Algerian war, articles, Charles De Gaulle, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Jean-Marie Le Pen, North American New Right, originals | 3 Responses

We Can’t Trust Conservatives

Robert Hampton

Martin Sellner

1,885 words

The center-right government of Austria persecutes Identitarians. The center-Right government of Poland bans Identitarians.

Both governments are seen by many Identitarians as models for nationalist governance, Poland in particular. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Austria, conservatives, cuckservatism, Identitarians, Italy, Law and Justice Party, North American New Right, originals, Poland, Robert Hampton, Russia, Sebastian Kurz, Vladimir Putin, white nationalism | 15 Responses

Against De Gaulle & the Rewriting of France’s Second World War History

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen as an MP in 1957.

2,304 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 391-396. The title is editorial.

In France, the man who marked the twenty-five years between 1944 and [President Georges] Pompidou was De Gaulle, who also maintained a complex relationship with Communism – sometimes opposing it, sometimes allying with it, sometimes seeking a consecration from the masters of Moscow. Read more …

Published: April 2, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Charles De Gaulle, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, historical revisionism, Jean-Marie Le Pen, North American New Right, originals, Second World War, Vichy France | 4 Responses

Robert Brasillach & Notre avant-guerre:
Remembering Robert Brasillach, March 31, 1909–February 6, 1945

Margot Metroland

Robert Brasillach at his trial in 1945.

3,574 words

Today is the birthday of Robert Brasillach, French journalist, novelist, and film historian (The History of Motion Pictures, co-written with Maurice Bardéche).

It is Brasillach’s fate mainly to be remembered for being the only collaborateur sentenced to death (by firing squad) for “intellectual crimes.” Read more …

Published: March 31, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Albert Camus, Alcazar Palace, Belgium, Ce Soir, Charles Maurras, Colette, commemorations, Francisco Franco, Georges Bernanos, Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Henri Massis, Jacques Maritain, Je Suis Partout, Jean Cocteau, José Antonio Primo de Rivera, La Cabeza, Léon Degrelle, M. de Lequerica, Margot Metroland, Maurice Bardèche, North American New Right, Paul Claudel, Pierre Cousteau, Pierre Daye, Pierre Gaxotte, Popular Front, reprints, Rexist Party, Robert Brasillach, Spain, Vendredi | Leave a comment

Salvador Dalí:
Monarchist, Maniac, & Mage, Part III

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Part I here, Part II here

The Moons of Gall

“Solange de Cleda re-establishes true normal passion: a profane Saint Theresa; Epicurus and Plato burning in a single flame of eternal feminine mystique.”
–Salavador Dalí, Foreword to Hidden Faces (1944)

Published: February 21, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Fenek Solère, North American New Right, originals, Salvador Dalí, surrealism | 1 Response

The Greatness & Decay of France

Emil Cioran

The French signing the armistice with the Germans at Compiègne on June 22, 1940.

3,210 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following extracts are drawn from Emil Cioran, De la France (Paris: L’Herne, 2015). The original was written in Romanian in 1941. The title is editorial.

Published: February 13, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, decadence, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals | 6 Responses

Cioran’s On France: Thriving Amidst Decay

Guillaume Durocher

2,942 words

Emil Cioran
De la France
Paris: L’Herne, 2015

This is a strange, vile little book as only Emil Cioran knew how to produce. It was only recently published, in both the original Romanian and in French translation,[1] having been written in 1941 and left to languish for decades in some cardboard box in the Cioran archives. Read more …

Published: February 11, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, decadence, Emil Cioran, Guillaume Durocher, North American New Right, originals, pessimism, vitalism | 6 Responses

The State of European Populism

Eordred

Viktor Orbán & Matteo Salvini

3,863 words

Since the American Alt Right fell apart, many commentators and outlets which formerly identified as “Alt Right” have started pointing towards European populism as an example to follow, and are often heard to say that the nationalist cause is much further ahead in Europe. As a European, I would like to comment on this, based on the Dutch populist movement, which is relatively strong for a Western European country. Read more …

Published: January 25, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alternative for Germany, articles, Austria, Belgium, Éordred, European Union, Euroskepticism, Fidesz, Front National, Geert Wilders, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lega, Matteo Salvini, North American New Right, originals, Poland, populism, Sweden, Sweden Democrats, the Netherlands, UKIP, United Kingdom, Viktor Orbán | 11 Responses

The Yellow Vests Have Made the Most French Part of France Visible

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Interviewed by Yann Vallerie; translated by Greg Johnson (The last two questions, on other topics, were omitted.)

The great national debate could be over before it even started. Read more …

Published: January 18, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emanuel Macron, gilets jaunes, interviews, North American New Right, originals, populism, translations, yellow vests | 8 Responses

Video of the Day
Alain de Benoist on the Yellow Vests Revolution

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The founder and primary thinker of the French New Right, Alain de Benoist, discusses his view of the ongoing Yellow Vests movement in France and their significance for French politics during his visit to Budapest, Hungary last week. In French with English subtitles.

Published: December 19, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emmanuel Macron, French New Right, gilets jaunes, populism, video of the day, yellow vests, Yellow Vests movement | 1 Response

Communism & Globalism

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen as an MP in 1957.

1,128 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is a translation from the concluding chapter of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 389-391. The title is editorial.

When I began to write these Memoirs in 2016, I decided to divide them into two volumes covering equal periods of forty-four years, the first going from my birth to that of the Front National, the second telling the history of the Front National as I had experienced it. Read more …

Published: December 18, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cold War, Communism, French translations, Front National, Guillaume Durocher, Jean-Marie Le Pen, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

Whatever Happens, the Yellow Vests Have Already Won

1,390 words

Interviewed by Yann Vallerie; translated by Greg Johnson

Breizh-info.com: First of all, how do you analyze the events of these recent weekends?

What I find most striking is, first of all, the continuity of the movement. While the government expected the pressure to ease, it has not. It is the fruit of an extraordinary determination, to which is added a surprising maturity. Read more …

Published: December 15, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Emanuel Macron, gilets jaunes, interviews, North American New Right, originals, populism, translations, yellow vests | 11 Responses

Populism in its Pure Form