Luc Michel is a far-left Belgian

Belgium

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 political activist and supporter of the ideas of Jean-François Thiriart

Jean-François Thiriart

Jean-François Thiriart was a Belgian far right politician.-Youth:Initially a Socialist, Thiriart eventually adopted a form of non-Marxist, Nationalist Socialism....

 (having been his personal secretary). He is the current leader and founder of the Parti Communautaire National-Européen

Parti Communautaire National-Européen

The Parti communautaire national-européen is a Belgium-based political organisation led by Luc Michel, a former member of the Neo-Nazi FANE party. A largely National Bolshevik movement, it also has activists in France....

 as well as a former member of Fédération d'action nationaliste et européenne.

A supporter of National Bolshevism

National Bolshevism

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, Michel is also a Slavophile

Slavophile

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, anti-Zionist and ecologist. A lawyer by profession, he has also written extensively on his political ideas. He has sought the growth of Europe

Europe

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 as an alternative leader in the world to the United States

United States

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 and has claimed to have the support of Gennady Zyuganov

Gennady Zyuganov

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, leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation

Communist Party of the Russian Federation

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, in this endeavour. Previously he had also sought contact with Action directe as part of his moves to link the far left

Far left

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 and the left

Left

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Publications

• Le Parti Historique Révolutionnaire
• Orientations NR
• Manifeste à la Nation-Europe
• Pour une Europe unitaire et communautaire
• Mythes et réalités du national-bolchévisme (Russie, Allemagne, Europe)
• La résistance allemande anti-hitlérienne
• Moammar Kadhafi et la révolution lybienne