Groupe Union Défense
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Successor | Social Bastion |
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Formation | 1968 |
Dissolved | 2017 |
Type | Far-right students' union |
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Groupe Union Défense (originally named Groupe Union Droit), better known as GUD, was a French far-right students' union.
The GUD was based in Panthéon-Assas University,[1][2][3] a renowned law school in Paris.
Ideology[]
Formed as far-right, anti-communist youth organization, in the mid-1980s, the GUD turned toward support of the Third Position movements and "national revolutionary" theories.[4]
Culture[]
GUD took as symbol the Celtic cross and the comic black rats (rats noirs).[5][6]
Some music groups of Rock identitaire français had connections with GUD.[7][8][9]
History[]
GUD was founded in 1968 under the name Union Droit at Panthéon-Assas University by Alain Robert, Gérard Longuet,[10] Gérard Ecorcheville and some members of the political movement Occident.
Members of the GUD participated in the 1969 founding of Ordre Nouveau.[11]
During the 1970s and early 1980s, linked to the Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN),[12] the GUD published the satiric monthly Alternative.
On 9 May 1994 GUD member riot police.[13][14] Following these event, some French nationalist groups formed an umbrella organization Comité du 9-Mai (C9M) and holds yearly a commemorative marches in Paris on May 9.[15][16]
died after clashes between nationalists andIn 1998, the Group united itself with Jeune Résistance and the Union des cercles résistance, offshoots of Nouvelle Résistance group, under the name Unité Radicale, but it was dissolved[17][18] after Maxime Brunerie's failed assassination attempt on president Jacques Chirac.[19]
In 2004, the GUD reformed under the name [20] Its publication is Le Dissident.
.In 2017 members of the GUD squatted a building in Lyon and founded political movement Social Bastion.[21][22][23]
Members[]
Successive leaders of the GUD were: Alain Robert, Frédéric Chatillon, William Bonnefoy, Benoît Fleury.
, Jean-François Santacroce, Serge Rep, Philippe Cuignache, Charles-Henri Varaut,Military volunteers[]
Some GUD members have fought in Lebanese Civil War[24] in 1976, Croatian War of Independence[25] in the 1990s and in Burma during Karen conflict.[26] In 1985 member of the GUD Jean-Philippe Courrèges was killed in action fighting for the KNLA.[27]
GUD members have had links with the Department of Protection-Security, which is the security organization of the far-right political party National Front.[28]
Former member of the GUD FLNC.[29]
was member of theSee also[]
- History of far-right movements in France
- Federation of Nationalist Students
References[]
- ^ L'université en Ile-de-France (4) Paris-II Assas, la longue marche vers le centre droit
- ^ Avec "Assas Patriote", l'extrême droite tente de reprendre pied à Paris-II Panthéon-Assas
- ^ Élections à Assas: le GUD tente de reprendre pied
- ^ L’Odyssée des Rats noirs : voyage au coeur du GUD
- ^ El otro Mayo del 68: la contrarrevolución de la rata negra
- ^ La rata negra mascota del neofascismo europeo
- ^ Une musique groupusculaire : le rock identitaire français
- ^ GUD, Génération identitaire, Action française... leurs racines, leurs méthodes
- ^ Le Rock Identitaire Français (5) Chapitre III : Les acteurs du RIF : les groupes
- ^ Nicolas Lebourg, « Une ligne vraiment très droite », Politis, no 1143, semaine du 10 au 16 mars 2011, p. 8-9.
- ^ Dossier extrême droite radicale: Groupe Union Défense
- ^ Dossier extrême droite radicale: Groupe Union Défense
- ^ L'extrême droite radicale tente une sortie sur le social, le 9 mai
- ^ Jacques Leclercq, « Comité du 9-Mai », Droites conservatrices, nationales et ultras : Dictionnaire 2005-2010, L'Harmattan, p. 124.
- ^ Commemoration Sebastien deyzieu (C9M)
- ^ Il y a 25 ans, Sébastien Deyzieu
- ^ Christophe Bourseiller, "Les risques de la spirale", in: Maxime Brunerie/Christian Rol, Une vie ordinaire, Paris: Denoël, 2011, 224 p., p. 8-15.
- ^ Would-be assassin rooted in hard right
- ^ Chirac escapes lone gunman's bullet
- ^ Du côté obscur de la droite
- ^ Lyon: le Gud squatte un immeuble pour venir en aide aux Français dans le besoin
- ^ A Lyon, le GUD expulsé de son squat
- ^ À Lyon, le GUD réquisitionne un bâtiment pour aider les Français
- ^ Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, p. 94
- ^ James Ciment World Terrorism: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence from Ancient Times to the Post-9/11 Era, p. 234.
- ^ La Souris rattrapée par le Chat…tillon: quand LSD choisit finalement son camp
- ^ C’était un 4 octobre…
- ^ Abel Mestre et Caroline Monnot, « Les réseaux du Front national », Sylvain Crépon, Alexandre Dézé, Nonna Mayer, Les Faux-semblants du Front national : sociologie d'un parti politique, Presses de Sciences PoP
- ^ Alain Orsoni: seul face à sa peur
Bibliography[]
- Frédéric Chatillon, Thomas Lagane et Jack Marchal (dir.), Les Rats maudits. Histoire des étudiants nationalistes 1965-1995, Éditions des Monts d'Arrée, 1995, ISBN 2-911387-00-7.
- Roger Griffin, Net gains and GUD reactions: patterns of prejudice in a Neo-fascist groupuscule, Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 33, n°2, 1999, p. 31-50.
- Collectif, Bêtes et méchants. – Petite histoire des jeunes fascistes français, Paris, Éditions Reflex, 2002, ISBN 2-914519-01-X.
External links[]
- Student societies in France
- Far-right politics in France
- French nationalism
- Anti-communist organizations
- Neo-fascism
- Third Position
- France politics stubs