Third Way a French

France

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 Third Position

Third Position

Third Position is a revolutionary nationalist political ideology that emphasizes its opposition to both communism and capitalism. Advocates of Third Position politics typically present themselves as "beyond left and right", instead claiming to syncretize radical ideas from both ends of the...

 organisation founded in 1985 by a merger of the small neo-fascist

Neo-Fascism

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 Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire, which gathered former members of 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:...

's Revolutionary Nationalist Groups

Revolutionary Nationalist Groups

The Revolutionary Nationalist Groups were a French far-right organization which gathered the nationalist revolutionary tendency between 1976 and 1978....

 (GNR), with dissidents from the Parti des forces nouvelles

Parti des forces nouvelles

Parti des forces nouvelles or Party of New Forces was a French far right political party formed in November 1974 from the Comité faire front, a group of anti-Jean-Marie Le Pen dissidents who had split from the National Front .-Development:...

.

Led by Jean-Gilles Malliarakis

Jean-Gilles Malliarakis

Jean-Gilles Malliarakis is a French far-right politician and writer. He is the son of noted painter 'Mayo' and was educated at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris.-Early career:...

, the party adopted the slogan of 'neither trusts

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 nor soviets

Soviet (council)

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' (ni trusts, ni soviets) and stood against communism

Communism

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, capitalism

Capitalism

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 and Zionism

Zionism

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. It used a trident

Trident

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 as its emblem. For a time the party was associated with the Groupe Union Défense but maintained a generally poor relationship with the Front National (FN). This was the case until 1991 when Malliarakis decided to approach the FN, leading to a schism within the party from those who felt the FN did not conform to their way of thinking. As a result 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....

 and his followers split off to form Nouvelle Résistance

Nouvelle Résistance

Nouvelle Résistance was a French far right group created in August 1991 by Christian Bouchet as an offshoot of Troisième Voie , which was headed by Bouchet. Dissolved in 1997, NR described themselves as "national revolutionary" and part of the National Bolshevism and Third Position movement...

, a group that was to be more 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...

 in tone. The Third Way itself remained in the hands of Malliarakis but was dissolved soon after the split.

Troisième voie also maintianed links with the white power music scene as Gaël Bodilis, who set up the Rebelles Européens record label

Record label

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 in Brest

Brest, France

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, was for a time a member of the group.