Movement for Social Action Mouvement d'Action Civique | |
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| Founded | 1960; 65 years ago (1960)[a] |
| Dissolved | 1963; 62 years ago (1963) |
| Preceded by | Action and Defence Committee for Belgians in Africa[b][1] |
| Succeeded by | Jeune Europe |
| Newspaper | Belgique-Afrique[1] |
| Ideology | Fascism[1] Anti-communism[1] Belgian colonialism[1] Belgian ultranationalism[1] European nationalism[1] |
| Political position | Far-right[1][2] |
| European affiliation | National Party of Europe |
| Colours | Black |
Mouvement d'Action Civique (French pronunciation:[muvmɑ̃daksjɔ̃sivik],MAC;English:Movement for Social Action)[2] was a minorfar-right political movement inBelgium during the 1960s. The party's logo, aCeltic cross, was adopted in 1961 and was also the logo of the successor party,Jeune Europe.[1]
The origins of the MAC lay in the 1960 independence of theBelgian Congo and the resultingCongo Crisis which saw the vast majority ofwhite colonials, who were largelyFrench-speaking, return to Belgium.[3] From within this group a number of extremist organisation began to grow up, most notably theComité d'Action et de Défense des Belges d'Afrique (CADBA or Committee for Action and the Defence of African Belgians), which had worked against thedecolonization of the Belgian Congo. When this aim was not forthcoming (and became increasingly undesirable due to the trouble in Congo and the return of most Belgians) CADBA reinvented itself as the MAC, becoming more of an extremist white armed group. A minor movement, it worked withJeune Europe domestically, as well as the BritishUnion Movement and theOrganisation armée secrète inFrance and was a founder member of theNational Party of Europe.
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