Angelo Plume (Telegram, YouTube) did a solo news roundup on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, discussing the recent French elections as well as other current things, and of course answered listener questions. It is now available for download and online listening. (more…)
Tag: France
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July 10, 2024 F. Roger Devlin
Alain de Benoist k populismu
English original here
Následující text je překladem přednášky F. Roger Devlina z jarního setkání Counter-Currents 2023
Termín populismus se v Americe hojně rozšířil od vzestupu Donalda Trumpa, v Evropě pak ještě o něco dříve, jako negativně zabarvené zastřešující označení protiimigračních protestních stran. Po všelidovém hlasování o Brexitu a zvolení Trumpa prezidentem se v anglicky hovořícím světě vyrojily knihy o populismu jako houby po dešti. Vsadil bych si, že za mnoha z nich stojí zadání vypočítavých vydavatelů, kteří doufali ve snadný zisk z náhle módní materie. (more…)
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The following was translated by Greg Johnson from the original French with permission from Breizh-info. The interview was conducted by YV.
We asked Alain de Benoist for his views on the recent European elections in France, as well as the French legislative elections, Macron’s dissolution of the Assembly, the nation’s current political theater, and of course the “two weeks of hate” that we are currently experiencing under the impetus of the Left. (more…)
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National Rally’s leader Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen on election night. (Image source: Marine Le Pen’s Facebook wall)
National Rally’s leader Jordan Bardella with Marine Le Pen on election night. (Image source: Marine Le Pen’s Facebook wall)
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The European Union Parliament elections have come and gone. While some results were being finalized just this morning, the dust has settled more or less and we can take stock of what occurred.
France
We’ll start with what is arguably the most momentous election result. In France, National Rally, of which Marine Le Pen is a member and which is now led by the handsome and charismatic Jordan Bardella, won 31% of the votes and gained 12 seats in the EU Parliament. (more…)
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Portrait of Gabriel Nicolas de La Reynie by Pierre Mignard (1670). (Source: Wikipedia.)
Portrait of Gabriel Nicolas de La Reynie by Pierre Mignard (1670). (Source: Wikipedia.)
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Like many social-media junkies on the Right, I find it incredibly entertaining to read and respond to posts on Twitter/X written by grievance-mongering liberals or delusional Africanists if only because it gives me the opportunity to pounce on at least some of the half-baked idiocy that passes for thinking these days. These “ratios” are, if futile, quite satisfying nonetheless, at least as much for me as for the original shit-poster who banged out nonsense on his or her keyboard just because. (more…)
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Antonio Gramsci (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
Antonio Gramsci (photo courtesy of Wikipedia)
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The following essay was written by Serhiy Zaikovsky, a Ukrainian historian, translator, and writer who was one of the founders of the Plomin publishing house. Born in 1994, Zaikovsky also served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and was killed in action on March 24, 2022.
The Statesman, Niccolò Machiavelli’s seminal work, was conceived as something that was intended to codify the laws of politics and the mechanisms of the exercise of power that had not yet been expressed by anyone (since antiquity?) and turn them into clear rules that would be understandable to every prince. In the Ukrainian translation by Anatoly Perepadi, the treatise contains 73 pages. (more…)
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As you probably already know, the “Left wing” versus “Right wing” political chasm first appeared when it cracked through the French National Assembly during the Revolution of 1789, when defenders of France’s monarchy and the Catholic faith positioned themselves on the right side of the Assembly, and supporters of the republican revolutionaries aligned themselves on the left side. The most technically correct and pedantic definition of “Right wing”, therefore, is a political system or ideology which favors hierarchy, aristocracy, monarchy, tradition, and Catholicism. (more…)
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Editor’s Note: March 31 marks the 115th birthday of Robert Brasillach, the French journalist, novelist, film historian, and man of the Right who was sentenced to death and executed by firing squad for “intellectual crimes” he was alleged to have committed as a German collaborator during the Second World War. The following translation is offered as a commemoration, and links to other resources regarding Brasillach’s life and work are included at the end. (more…)
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Renaud Camus
Enemy of the Disaster: Selected Political Writings
Blowing Rock, N. C.: Vauban Books, 2023Enemy of the Disaster is the first extensive English-language collection of Renaud Camus’ writings in opposition to what he was the first to name “the Great Replacement” of France’s — and Europe’s — people. The book consists of ten pieces written between 2007 and 2017. Co-translator Louis Betty also provides a useful introduction, though marred by his compulsion to triangulate against shadowy “white supremacists.” (more…)
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Robert Darnton
The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985Historical dissident literary and artistic movements that have had an impact on the political realm are worth studying. One such example is the literary underground in pre-Revolutionary France. In The Literary Underground of the Old Regime, historian Robert Darnton advances the thesis that dissident writers and publishers played an important role in undermining the ancien régime. (more…)
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Jim Goad has produced a short film to accompany his latest essay, “Holding France at Knifepoint,” on the already terrible and rapidly worsening levels of violent crime perpetrated by migrants in France, in response to which the authorities are doing nothing. (more…)
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Last week at a grade school in France, a 12-year-old girl attempted to stab her teacher. Other schoolchildren say she told them she was planning a copycat stabbing in honor of a 20-year-old Chechen named Mohamed who’d shouted “Allahu Akbar!” while stabbing his former teacher to death at another school in France this October.
Witnesses say the unnamed fifth-grade student shouted “I’m going to kill you, ma’am!” — at least she was polite enough to call her “ma’am” — before pulling out a knife and lunging at the teacher, who fled the classroom before the girl was restrained and taken into custody. (more…)
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Part 5 of 5 (Part 1 here, Part 4 here)
A German war with Poland was now a certainty, but a new continental war involving Britain and France was not. The most important obstacle to the widening of the conflict was that Britain quietly viewed French participation as an indispensable precondition of her own involvement, and the French had not committed themselves to action against Poland. (more…)