Unité Radicale

Unité Radicale was a French far-right political group close to the Third Position and National Bolshevism thesis. It was founded in June 1998 from the merger of Groupe Union Défense and Nouvelle Résistance/Jeune Résistance/Union des Cercles Résistance, issued from Nouvelle Résistance, and dissolved on August 6, 2002. The group was led by Christian Bouchet.

Unité Radicale promoted a racist, antisemitic and anti-american political agenda adopting Nazi imagery during activities.^[1]^[2]

The group worked with the Mouvement national républicain of Bruno Mégret and some members of Unité Radicale were members of the Conseil national of this party.

Contributors to their website included former Collaborationist Roland Gaucher, who participated to the 1972 foundation of the National Front, along with Le Pen.

At the beginning of 2002, Unité Radicale split. Christian Bouchet departed the movement with his friends, and the group was then led by Fabrice Robert and Guillaume Luyt who gave it a more racist and anti-Muslim outlook.

An Unité Radicale member, Maxime Brunerie, tried to assassinate president Jacques Chirac on Bastille Day in 2002.^[3] Although Unité Radicale contended that Maxime Brunerie was not even a bona fide member, the French government administratively disbanded the group.^[4]

Subsequently, some former members of Unité Radicale formed another group, Bloc Identitaire, while some other "nationalist revolutionaries" of Unité Radicale formed the study group Réseau Radical (2002–2006), close to Bouchet's newspaper Résistances.

References

^ Henley, Jon (20 July 2002). "France's neo-Nazi breeding ground". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ "Police hunt 'friend' of French neo-Nazi gunman". The Irish Times. 16 July 2002. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ Jon Henley Would-be assassin rooted in hard right, The Guardian, Tuesday July 16, 2002
^ Jon Henley France plans to outlaw far-right group of would-be assassin, The Guardian, Tuesday July 30, 2002

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[1] Henley, Jon (20 July 2002). "France's neo-Nazi breeding ground". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[2] "Police hunt 'friend' of French neo-Nazi gunman". The Irish Times. 16 July 2002. Retrieved 2 April 2019.

[3] Jon Henley Would-be assassin rooted in hard right, The Guardian, Tuesday July 16, 2002

[4] Jon Henley France plans to outlaw far-right group of would-be assassin, The Guardian, Tuesday July 30, 2002

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v t e Far-right politics in France
Precursors	Bonald Boulanger de Gobineau de Maistre Drumont de Lapouge
Pre-1945 groups	Action Française Antisemitic League of France Breton National Party Camelots du Roi Croix-de-Feu Faisceau French National-Collectivist Party French Popular Party Jeunesses Patriotes La Cagoule Ligue des Patriotes Milice Mouvement Franciste National Popular Rally Revolutionary Social Movement Service d'ordre légionnaire Solidarité Française
Pre-1945 people	Barrès Bainville Benoist-Méchin Bonnard Brasillach Bucard Clémenti Coston Darnard Daudet Déat Deloncle Déroulède Dorgères Doriot Drieu La Rochelle Guénon Laval Maulnier Maurras Maxence Ousset Pétain Plateau Pujo Rebatet Vallat Vaugeois
Defunct post-1945 groups	Charles Martel Group Europe-Action European Rally for Liberty Fédération d'action nationale et européenne Federation of Nationalist Students French and European Nationalist Party Front Algérie Française Groupe Union Défense Jeune Nation L'Œuvre Française Nouvelle Résistance Occident Ordre Nouveau Organisation Armée Secrète Party of New Forces Phalange Française Radical Network Rassemblement National Français Revolutionary Nationalist Groups Troisième Voie Unité Radicale
Active groups	Action Française Adsav AGRIF Alsace First Association for the Defence of the Memory of Marshal Pétain Cité catholique Civitas Carrefour de l'Horloge Debout la France Equality and Reconciliation Europe-Jeunesse The Nationalists French Renewal Generation Identity GRECE League of the South National Council of European Resistance National Republican Movement Party of France Rassemblement National Reconquête Sovereignty, Identity and Freedoms Terre et Peuple The Patriots
Post-1945 people	Aliot Antony Ayoub Bardèche Bardella Bay Benedetti Binet Bompard Bouchet Bousquet Blot Brigneau Briois Camus Coston de Benoist de Lesquen Dior Duprat Faye Fredriksen Gollnisch Holeindre Jalkh Lang Le Gallou Le Pen (Jean-Marie) Le Pen (Marine) Luce Maribe Malliarakis Maréchal Mégret Ménard Messiha Philippot Pujo Rachline Ravier Reynouard Saint-Loup Sidos Soral Stirbois Susini Tixier-Vignancour Venner Vial Zemmour
Ideologies and movements	Boulangisme Maurrassisme Nouvelle Droite Pétainism Révolution nationale
Active publications and media	Boulevard Voltaire Éléments Minute National-Hebdo [fr] Nouvelle École Présent Radio Courtoisie Rivarol TV-Libertés
Notable events	Dreyfus affair Franco-Prussian War (Revanchism) 6 February 1934 crisis Vichy France Algerian War (Algiers putsch of 1961)