Jean-Gilles Malliarakis

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Jean-Gilles Malliarakis (born 22 June 1944 in Paris) is a French far-right politician and writer.

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Biography

Early far-right activism

Jean-Gilles Malliarakis is the son of Greek painter 'Mayo' (Antoine Malliarakis) and of a French mother. He grew up in an intellectual, artistic background, as his father was a friend of Jacques Prévert and Albert Camus. He has said that he became strongly anti-communist at the age of 15 after seeing a play written by Camus and based on Dostoevsky's Demons . While still a teenager, he began frequenting far-right groups. Malliarakis became close to Action française and Jeune Nation, [1] and eventually joined the student movement Occident in 1964, alongside French political figures such as future government members Alain Madelin, Gérard Longuet, Patrick Devedjian and future National Front executive François Duprat. [2] He eventually stopped frequenting Occident in 1966 and was formally expelled from the group the next year. [3]

Whilst a student at Sciences Po, he created his own movement, Action nationaliste, [4] which was classified as neofascist. [5] In 1969, he organized a meeting at Sciences Po celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento's founding by Mussolini. [6] In May of that year, he was arrested after a left-wing student was grievously wounded during a fight between student activist groups. Malliarakis, who had been knocked out during the fight, was found unconscious by police forces and put in detention. He was eventually freed three weeks later. [7]

In 1970, he took part to the founding meeting of the neo-fascist group Ordre Nouveau. [8] Afterwards, he left frontline politics for a few years, [1] and resurfaced in the a few years later in the mid-1970s when he bought the bookstore owned by far-right journalist Henry Coston and his wife. His shop, the "Librairie française", became a notorious venue for the radical right in Paris. At the same time, he joined the Groupe action jeunesse (GAJ), a movement which advocated solidarist and anticapitalist positions and a "third way" between communism and capitalism. [9] In 1979, the GAJ was renamed Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire (MNR). Malliarakis advocated at that time "national revolutionary" positions. [10] Historian Pierre Milza described his positions as somewhat similar to Mussolini's early left-wing fascism and Georges Valois's interwar Faisceau. [11]

Troisième Voie

In 1982, Malliarakis attempted to create a coalition with other far right groups such as Pierre Sidos' L'Œuvre Française, but the alliance was short-lived. [10] He also tried to form an alliance with the GRECE, which held joined meeting with Malliarakis' MNR in 1984, but this attempt was fruitless. An alliance with the Groupe Union Défense (GUD) was equally short-lived. [10] With the support of GRECE and the GUD, Malliariakis announced in the autumn of 1985 the creation of Troisième Voie ('Third Way') from the merger of the MNR and the Party of New Forces. The Jeune Garde (Young Guard) was portrayed as a third group, although it was actually a branch of the MNR. [12] During the 1980s, Malliarakis also started working for the neo-Poujadist syndicate Confédération de défense des commerçants et artisans, [10] and became a speaker at the right-wing station Radio Courtoisie. [13]

In 1991, the Troisième Voie movement split after a conflict with Christian Bouchet's tendency. [14] Malliarakis later dissolved what was left of the movement and retired from front-line politics to concentrate on his work at Radio Courtoisie and to his activity as a book publisher under the imprint Éditions du Trident. He eventually adopted neo-liberal positions and joined Alain Madelin's Idées action movement. [15] In February 2007, after the death of station founder Jean Ferré, he left Radio Courtoisie as a disagreement with the policies of the radio's new director Henry de Lesquen. [16] He has since then continued his activity as book publisher and as an online politics commentator. He also works for the anticommunist think tank Institut d'histoire sociale. [17]

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  1. 1 2 Camus & Monzat 1992, p. 89.
  2. ↑ Charpier 2005, pp. 95-96.
  3. ↑ Charpier 2005, pp. 143, 205.
  4. ↑ D'Appollonia 1998, p. 315.
  5. ↑ Milza 2002, p. 134.
  6. ↑ Milza 2002, p. 142.
  7. ↑ Charpier 2005, p. 217.
  8. ↑ Charpier 2005, pp. 221–222.
  9. ↑ D'Appollonia 1998, p. 350.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Camus & Monzat 1992, p. 90.
  11. ↑ Milza 2002, p. 142–143.
  12. ↑ Camus & Lebourg 2017, pp. 135–136.
  13. ↑ Gautier 2017.
  14. ↑ Camus & Monzat 1992, p. 341.
  15. ↑ Charpier 2005, p. 343.
  16. ↑ LJ Jean-Gilles Malliarakis 23/2, radio-courtoisie.over-blog.com, 23 février 2007
  17. ↑ Faye, Olivier; Mestre, Abel; Monnot, Caroline (19 October 2016). "La mairie de Paris exfiltre un colloque sur l'islamisme organisé avec Jean-Gilles Malliarakis". Le Monde (in French).

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