Tag Archives: Front National

Viktor Orbán & Matteo Salvini

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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, France, 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

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Communism & Globalism

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Jean-Marie Le Pen as an MP in 1957.

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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, France, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Jean-Marie Le Pen, North American New Right, originals | 7 Responses

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A Voice in the Wilderness

Jean-Marie Le Pen

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: The following is a translation of the final paragraphs of the first volume of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Mémoires: Fils de la nation (Paris: Muller, 2018), pp. 402-403.

. . . in the end, the Second World War is a detail of history and a detail in the use of history for ideological ends.

On French Politics, Populism, Trump, Hungary, & Being a Right-wing Intellectual

Alain de Benoist

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Translated by Garrett Deasy

The following is an interview with Alain de Benoist that was published by the Hungarian magazine Mandiner on November 4, 2017. It was translated from the original French. Read more …

Published: March 9, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Charles De Gaulle, Christianity, Dominique Venner, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, European New Right, European Union, Euroskepticism, France, French New Right, French translations, Hungary, interviews, Left/Right divide, liberalism, mass immigration, migrant crisis, North American New Right, originals, populism, Viktor Orbán | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 213
Populism: Beyond Left & Right?
Alain de Benoist’s The Populist Moment

Michael Walker

The faces of European populism today: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.

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Alain de Benoist
Le Moment Populiste: Droite-Gauche c’est Fini!
Paris: Pierre-Guillaume de Roux, 2017 Read more …

Published: February 21, 2018 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, anti-fascism, articles, book reviews, Brexit, Donald Trump, education, elitism, European New Right, European Union, Euroskepticism, French New Right, globalization, GRECE, identity, Jeremy Corbyn, Left/Right divide, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, podcasts, populism, referenda | 6 Responses

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The Front National’s Evolution

Bruno Mégret

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: Bruno Mégret is a senior French civil servant, politician, and former right-hand man of Jean-Marie Le Pen until the notorious party split of 1998. The title is editorial. Read more …

Published: September 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Florian Philippot, France, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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Crisis in the Front National:
On the Expulsion of Florian Philippot

Jean-Yves Le Gallou

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Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: Jean-Yves Le Gallou was a member of Alain de Benoist’s GRECE in the 1970s and is a former Front National (FN) politician, as well as co-founder of Iliade, a leading identitarian think-tank inspired by the work of Dominique Venner. This article discusses the recent departure of the civic nationalist Florian Philippot from the FN, whose anti-EU and anti-euro line, to the detriment of identitarian and immigration issues, has been blamed for Marine Le Pen’s mediocre performance in the last presidential elections. The title is editorial. Read more …

Published: September 22, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Florian Philippot, France, French translations, Guillaume Durocher, Jean-Yves Le Gallou, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals | 5 Responses

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Thriving in the Populist Matrix

Michael Walker

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Five hundred years ago this year (2017), Martin Luther nailed his ninety-five theses to the church door of Wittenberg. It was not the first time that theologians and teachers had protested against certain doctrines and dogma of the Roman Church. There had been, to take two notable examples preceding Luther, John Wycliffe and Jan Hus. Read more …

Published: June 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Brexit, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, ideology, Marine Le Pen, Martin Luther, mass media, Michael Walker, Nigel Farage, North American New Right, originals, populism, social media, UKIP | 2 Responses

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Macron: Artifact & Puppet

Guillaume Faye

Macron with one of his siblings.

2,066 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note: Comments in parentheses are Faye’s, bracketed ones are my own.

An artifact is a manufactured object which replaces the real, whose true nature is distorted. Read more …

Published: June 2, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Emmanuel Macron, France, French New Right, Guillaume Durocher, Guillaume Faye, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals, translations | 5 Responses

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Suddenly, I Love the French

Jef Costello

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A few years ago, a friend of mine spent a summer in the south of France with his daughter, who was in grade school at the time. Unfortunately, the daughter caught a bug toward the end of their stay, and my friend made multiple trips to the local pharmacy trying to find the right medicine for her. His French is imperfect, so he struggled to make himself understood by the druggist. Read more …

Published: May 1, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged France, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jef Costello, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals, René Descartes | 12 Responses

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No Guilt for White Men (and Women)

Spencer J. Quinn

The Vel d’Hiv roundup, July 1942.

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National Front leader Marine Le Pen revealed her tri-colored stripes again when she recently exonerated the French for rounding up thirteen thousand Jews at the Paris Vélodrome d’Hiver cycling track in 1942 for the Nazis. Read more …

Published: April 12, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged France, Jews, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals, Spencer Quinn, the holocaust, white guilt | 8 Responses

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The French Anti-Revolution

Robert Prospect

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While Marine Le Pen could be said to be more “liberal” than her father, Jean-Marie, she is still undeniably the key figure in relation to the destruction of the European Union. Read more …

Published: March 13, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged America, Donald Trump, France, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals, Robert Prospect | 21 Responses

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Théorie et pratique

Greg Johnson

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English version here

Pour atteindre nos buts politiques, la Nouvelle Droite Nord Américaine doit comprendre la relation appropriée entre théorie sociale et changement social, métapolitique et politique, théorie et pratique. Nous devons éviter de dériver vers l’intellectualisme inactif ou vers l’activisme inintelligent et donc possiblement contre-productif.

Le livre de Guillaume Faye, L’archéofuturisme [1], offre de nombreuses leçons importantes pour notre projet. Le chapitre 1, « Le bilan de la Nouvelle Droite », est le règlement de comptes de Faye avec la Nouvelle Droite française. Read more …

Published: April 29, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Antonio Gramsci, Archeofuturism, articles, Augustin Cochin, European New Right, Guillaume Faye, in French, in translation, Jean-Marie Le Pen, metapolitics, North American New Right, originals, white activism | Leave a comment

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The Front National’s Tactical Winning Streak Continues

Patrick Le Brun

Marine Le Pen and her niece Marion Maréchal-Le Pen

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Since the election of Marine Le Pen to the head of the Front National the party has moved from one tactical victory to another. As the baton passed from the previous generation the coalition of “tendances” that forms the party has also changed. Read more …

Published: June 22, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, France, Jean-Marie Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, North American New Right, originals, Patrick Le Brun | 9 Responses

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Marine Le Pen
Le peste blonde

Michael O'Meara

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“Marine Le Pen apparaît en effet pour les Français comme le moyen actuel le plus évident d’exprimer désormais politiquement le rejet du Système.”
— Andrea Massari

In a number of opinion polls taken since January 16, when Marine Le Pen succeeded her father as head of the Front National (FN), she’s placed as one of the two presidential candidates likely to reach the second electoral round of May 2012. Read more …

Published: June 15, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, France, Marine Le Pen, Michael O'Meara, North American New Right, originals, white nationalism | 12 Responses

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Theory & Practice

Greg Johnson

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Translations: French, Polish

The aim of Counter-Currents Publishing and our journal North American New Right is to create an intellectual movement in North America that is analogous to the European New Right. We aspire to learn from the European New Right’s strengths and limitations and to tailor its approach to the unique situation of European people in North America. Our aim is to lay the intellectual groundwork for a white ethnostate in North America.