Jean-Gilles Malliarakis (born 22 June 1944 inParis) is a Frenchfar-right politician and writer.
Jean-Gilles Malliarakis is the son ofGreek painter 'Mayo' (Antoine Malliarakis) and of a French mother. He grew up in an intellectual, artistic background, as his father was a friend ofJacques Prévert andAlbert Camus. He has said that he became stronglyanti-communist at the age of 15 after seeing a play written by Camus and based onDostoevsky'sDemons. While still a teenager, he began frequenting far-right groups. Malliarakis became close toAction française andJeune Nation,[1] and eventually joined the student movementOccident in 1964, alongside French political figures such as future government membersAlain Madelin,Gérard Longuet,Patrick Devedjian and futureNational Front executiveFrançois Duprat.[2] He eventually stopped frequenting Occident in 1966 and was formally expelled from the group the next year.[3]
Whilst a student atSciences Po, he created his own movement,Action nationaliste,[4] which was classified asneofascist.[5] In 1969, he organized a meeting at Sciences Po celebrating the 50th anniversary of theFasci Italiani di Combattimento's founding byMussolini.[6] In May of that year, he was arrested after a left-wing student was grievously wounded during a fight between student activist groups. Malliarakis, who had been knocked out during the fight, was found unconscious by police forces and put in detention. He was eventually freed three weeks later.[7]
In 1970, he took part to the founding meeting of the neo-fascist groupOrdre Nouveau.[8] Afterwards, he left frontline politics for a few years,[1] and resurfaced in the a few years later in the mid-1970s when he bought the bookstore owned by far-right journalistHenry Coston and his wife. His shop, the "Librairie française", became a notorious venue for the radical right in Paris. At the same time, he joined theGroupe action jeunesse (GAJ), a movement which advocatedsolidarist andanticapitalist positions and a "third way" between communism and capitalism.[9] In 1979, the GAJ was renamed Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire (MNR). Malliarakis advocated at that time "national revolutionary" positions.[10] HistorianPierre Milza described his positions as somewhat similar to Mussolini's early left-wingfascism andGeorges Valois's interwarFaisceau.[11]
In 1982, Malliarakis attempted to create a coalition with other far right groups such asPierre Sidos'L'Œuvre Française, but the alliance was short-lived.[10] He also tried to form an alliance with theGRECE, which held joined meeting with Malliarakis' MNR in 1984, but this attempt was fruitless. An alliance with theGroupe Union Défense (GUD) was equally short-lived.[10] With the support of GRECE and the GUD, Malliariakis announced in the autumn of 1985 the creation ofTroisième Voie ('Third Way') from the merger of the MNR and theParty of New Forces. The Jeune Garde (Young Guard) was portrayed as a third group, although it was actually a branch of the MNR.[12] During the 1980s, Malliarakis also started working for the neo-Poujadist syndicateConfédération de défense des commerçants et artisans,[10] and became a speaker at the right-wing stationRadio Courtoisie.[13]
In 1991, theTroisième Voie movement split after a conflict withChristian Bouchet's tendency.[14] Malliarakis later dissolved what was left of the movement and retired from front-line politics to concentrate on his work at Radio Courtoisie and to his activity as a book publisher under the imprintÉditions du Trident. He eventually adoptedneo-liberal positions and joinedAlain Madelin'sIdées action movement.[15] In February 2007, after the death of station founderJean Ferré, he left Radio Courtoisie as a disagreement with the policies of the radio's new directorHenry de Lesquen.[16] He has since then continued his activity as book publisher and as an online politics commentator. He also works for the anticommunist think tankInstitut d'histoire sociale.[17]
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