New Resistance Nouvelle Résistance | |
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| Founder | Christian Bouchet |
| Founded | 1991 (1991) |
| Dissolved | 1997 (1997) |
| Split from | Troisième Voie |
| Headquarters | France |
| Ideology | National Bolshevism Third Position Ecofascism Anti-Zionism Anti-clericalism |
| Political position | Far-right |
Nouvelle Résistance (NR) was aFrench far-right group created in August 1991 byChristian Bouchet as an offshoot ofTroisième Voie (Third Way), which was headed by Bouchet. Dissolved in 1997, NR described themselves as "national revolutionary" and part of theNational Bolshevism international movement. It succeeded to theTroisième voie andJeune Europe, a movement created in the 1960s byJean-François Thiriart.
NR was bothanti-Communist andanti-capitalist as well asecofascist. In 1989, then general secretary of the Troisième Voie, Christian Bouchet stated that there were two possible alternatives: either present themselves as a "National Revolutionary wing/margin of theNational Front" or present itself as a "contest movement" which supported "all forms of contest (regional,ecologic, social, popular," etc.[1] The NR first decided to oppose the National Front "reactionary right" and enacted a policy of "the peripheries against the center," advocating for the creation of an "anti-establishment front," and rejectingleft/right division. Bouchet then stated that this strategy had failed, and advocated alliance withJean-Marie Le Pen's National Front, on a "Less Leftism! More Fascism!" slogan.[1]
It also supportedstate secularism andanti-clericalism, and opposedUnited Statescultural imperialism. Practicing a politic ofentryism explicitly inspired by theTrotskyists, the NR also infiltrated the national direction of thedeep ecology movementEarth First.[1] NR was alsoanti-Zionist. They transformed themselves in theUnion des cercles résistance in Autumn 1996 during its third congress held inAix-en-Provence; theUnité radicale movement was created from this.
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