Radical Network was a French far right study group formed in June 2002, with a number of its early members coming from those who split from Unité Radicale

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...

 that April, notably Christian Bouchet

Christian Bouchet

Christian Bouchet is a French far right journalist and politician. An exponent of the Third Position, with sympathies to National Bolshevism....

, Luc Bignot and Giorgio Damiani.

Adhering to solidarism

Solidarism

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, the group avowedly rejected Left-Right politics

Left-Right politics

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 and claimed to be inspired not only by rightists

Right-wing politics

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 like Aleksandr Dugin

Aleksandr Dugin

Aleksandr Gelyevich Dugin is a politologist and one of the most popular ideologists of Russian expansionism, nationalism, and fascism, with close ties to the Kremlin and Russian military. He was the leading organizer of National Bolshevik Party, National Bolshevik Front, and Eurasia Party...

, François Duprat

François Duprat

François Duprat was a writer and Holocaust denier. He was known also for being a founding member of the Front National party and part of the leadership until his assassination in 1978.-Biography:...

, Julius Evola

Julius Evola

Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist...

 and 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....

 but also by socialists

Socialism

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 such as Louis Auguste Blanqui

Louis Auguste Blanqui

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. It used the trident

Trident

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 as its emblem and also organised a youth movement, Jeune dissidence. In keeping with their status as a study group it numbered around 40 hardcore activists.

With their activities co-ordinated by a Conseil solidariste radical, it adopted a position of Anti-Americanism

Anti-Americanism

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, Anti-capitalism

Anti-capitalism

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 and Anti-Zionism

Anti-Zionism

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, whilst leaning towards the ideas of Neo-Eurasianism. In keeping with such ideas, it supported Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein

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, Serbia and Montenegro

Serbia and Montenegro

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, Carlos the Jackal

Carlos the Jackal

Ilich Ramírez Sánchez , better known as Carlos the Jackal, is a Venezuelan pro-Palestinian currently serving a life sentence in France for shooting to death two French secret agents and a Lebanese informer in 1975....

 and Hugo Chávez

Hugo Chávez

Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías is the 56th and current President of Venezuela, having held that position since 1999. He was formerly the leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when he became the leader of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela...

, amongst others. It was close to the magazine Résistance, a National Bolshevik

National Bolshevism

National Bolshevism is a political movement that claims to combine elements of nationalism and Bolshevism. It is often anti-capitalist in tone, and sympathetic towards certain nationalist forms of communism and socialism...

 publication produced by sometime member Bouchet.

The group was dissolved by its creators in early 2006, with some regrouping as Les nôtres.

Note

• This article is based on a translation of an article from the French Wikipedia.

External links

• A news site ran by Réseau Radical