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TheBreton Social-National Workers' Movement (French:Mouvement Ouvrier Social-National Breton) was anationalist,separatist, andFascist movement founded in 1941 byThéophile Jeusset. It emerged inBrittany from a deviationist faction of theBreton National Party; it disappeared the same year.
Its 25-point program was based on the principle of a "popular Breton state made for the people and by the people", integrated into anew European order, rejecting "Gaullism, the last redoubt of the Bretonbourgeoisie" and resting on "the peasant class, the most numerous in Brittany", asserting "bread for Bretons, peace within Europe and freedom for Brittany", taking as given that it could count "not onEngland, norFrance, norGermany to acquire it", but only "through the power and confidence that one finds in the Breton people".
Having adopted for a flag a standard (designed byOlier Mordrel several years before) closely resembling aNazi flag — blackermine at the center of a white circle on a red field representing "the blood of the worker" — Théophile Jeusset recruited several followers in the workshops and factories ofIlle-et-Vilaine and organized about twenty meetings in the back rooms ofrestaurants inRennes. Its founder renounced the dialectic, and embarked on direct action with a small group of Communist-separatists who it had joined his cause. He then took up agraffiti campaign directed againstFrançois Ripert (thepréfet of Ille-et-Vilaine), and unleashed some of his comrades into the botanical garden of Rennes, to smash the statue of the "traitor"Bertrand du Guesclin.
