French far-right students' union
Groupe Union Défense (originally namedGroupe Union Droit ), better known asGUD , was a Frenchfar-right students' union formed in the 1960s. After a period of inactivity it relaunched in 2022.[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
The GUD was based inPanthéon-Assas University ,[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] Paris .
On 26 June 2024, the French government ordered the dissolution of the GUD.[ 1]
Formed asfar-right ,anti-communist youth organization, in the mid-1980s, the GUD turned toward support of theThird Position movements and "national revolutionary " theories,[ 8] anti-Zionism ,anti-Americanism and support forHafez al-Assad .[ 9]
GUD took as symbol theCeltic cross and thecomic black rats (rats noirs ).[ 10] [ 11]
Some music groups ofRock identitaire français had connections with GUD.[ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
Members of the GUD during demonstration inParis in 2012 GUD was founded in December 1968 under the nameUnion Droit at Panthéon-Assas University[ 9] Alain Robert (homme politique) [fr ] ,Gérard Longuet ,[ 15] political movementOccident . In its early period, it was a reactionary bourgeois student movement, and some of its early members went on to become mainstream conservative politicians, includingGérard Longuet ,Hervé Novelli andAlain Madelin .[ 9] [ 16]
Members of the GUD participated in the 1969 founding ofOrdre Nouveau .[ 17]
During the 1970s and early 1980s, linked to theParti des forces nouvelles (PFN), the GUD published thesatiric monthlyAlternative .[ 17] Alain Orsoni , a Corsican nationalist linked to organised crime and suspected of the murder ofMarie-Jeanne Bozzi .[ 9]
On 9 May 1994 GUD memberSébastien Deyzieu [fr ] died after clashes between nationalists andriot police .[ 18] [ 19] Comité du 9-Mai (C9M) and holds[clarification needed yearly a commemorative marches in Paris on May 9.[ 20] [ 21]
In 1998, the Group united itself withJeune Résistance and theUnion des cercles résistance , offshoots ofNouvelle Résistance group, under the nameUnité Radicale , but it was dissolved[ 22] [ 23] Maxime Brunerie 's failed assassination attempt on presidentJacques Chirac .[ 24]
In 2004, the GUD reformed under the nameRassemblement étudiant de droite [fr ] . Its publication wasLe Dissident .[ 25]
In 2017 members of the GUDsquatted a building in Lyon and founded political movementSocial Bastion .[ 26] [ 27] [ 28]
In late 2022,graffiti appeared in educational institutions in Paris (including theÉcole Normale Supérieure ) saying "GUD is back"; a video was released onOuest Casual [fr ] , aTelegram channel used by the far right, commemorating some Greek neo-Nazis; and the GUD slogan “Europe, Youth, Revolution” appeared on stickers in Paris and chants at a right-wing demonstration inLyon . Its activists were reported to be drawn from far-right trade union La Cocarde Étudiante, the ultra-right group theZouaves ,traditionalist Catholics from Versailles, andfootball hooligans .[ 9]
Successive leaders of the GUD were: Alain Robert,Jack Marchal , Jean-François Santacroce, Serge Rep, Philippe Cuignache, Charles-Henri Varaut,Frédéric Chatillon , William Bonnefoy, Benoît Fleury.
Military volunteers [ edit ] Some GUD members have fought inLebanese Civil War with theKataeb Party [ 29] Croatian War of Independence [ 30] Burma duringKaren conflict .[ 31] Karen National Liberation Army .[ 32]
GUD members have had links with theDepartment for Protection and Security National Front .[ 33]
Former member of the GUDAlain Orsoni was member of theFLNC .[ 34]
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