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Successor | Social Bastion |
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Formation | 1968 |
Dissolved | June 26, 2024[1] |
Type | Far-right students' union |
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Groupe Union Défense (originally named Groupe Union Droit), better known as GUD, was a French far-right students' union formed in the 1960s. After a period of inactivity it relaunched in 2022. [2] [3] [4]
The GUD was based in Panthéon-Assas University, [5] [6] [7] a law school in Paris.
On 26 June 2024, the French government ordered the dissolution of the GUD. [8]
Formed as far-right, anti-communist youth organization, in the mid-1980s, the GUD turned toward support of the Third Position movements and " national revolutionary" theories, [9] as well as embracing anti-Zionism, anti-Americanism and support for Hafez al-Assad. [10]
GUD took as symbol the Celtic cross and the comic black rats (rats noirs). [11] [12]
Some music groups of Rock identitaire français had connections with GUD. [13] [14] [15]
GUD was founded in December 1968 under the name Union Droit at Panthéon-Assas University [10] by Alain Robert (politician) , Gérard Longuet, [16] Gérard Ecorcheville and some members of the political movement Occident. In its early period, it was a reactionary bourgeois student movement, and some of its early members went on to become mainstream conservative politicians, including Gérard Longuet, Hervé Novelli and Alain Madelin. [10] [17]
Members of the GUD participated in the 1969 founding of Ordre Nouveau. [18]
During the 1970s and early 1980s, linked to the Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN),the GUD published the satiric monthly Alternative. [19] Members in this period included Alain Orsoni , a Corsican nationalist linked to organised crime and suspected of the murder of Marie-Jeanne Bozzi. [10]
On 9 May 1994 GUD member Sébastien Deyzieu died after clashes between nationalists and riot police. [20] [21] Following these event, some French nationalist groups formed an umbrella organization Comité du 9-Mai (C9M) and holds[ clarification needed] yearly a commemorative marches in Paris on May 9. [22] [23]
In 1998, the Group united itself with Jeune Résistance and the Union des cercles résistance, offshoots of Nouvelle Résistance group, under the name Unité Radicale, but it was dissolved [24] [25] after Maxime Brunerie's failed assassination attempt on president Jacques Chirac. [26]
In 2004, the GUD reformed under the name Rassemblement étudiant de droite . Its publication was Le Dissident. [27]
In 2017 members of the GUD squatted a building in Lyon and founded political movement Social Bastion. [28] [29] [30]
In late 2022, graffiti appeared in educational institutions in Paris (including the École Normale Supérieure) saying "GUD is back"; a video was released on Ouest Casual , a Telegram channel used by the far right, commemorating some Greek neo-Nazis; and the GUD slogan “Europe, Youth, Revolution” appeared on stickers in Paris and chants at a right-wing demonstration in Lyon. Its activists were reported to be drawn from far-right trade union La Cocarde Étudiante , the ultra-right group the Zouaves, traditionalist Catholics from Versailles, and football hooligans. [10]
Successive leaders of the GUD were: Alain Robert, Jack Marchal, Jean-François Santacroce, Serge Rep, Philippe Cuignache, Charles-Henri Varaut, Frédéric Chatillon, William Bonnefoy, Benoît Fleury.
Some GUD members have fought in Lebanese Civil War [31] in 1976, Croatian War of Independence [32] in the 1990s and in Burma during Karen conflict. [33] In 1985 member of the GUD Jean-Philippe Courrèges was killed in action fighting for the Karen National Liberation Army. [34]
GUD members have had links with the Department for Protection and Security, which is the security organization of the far-right political party National Front. [35]
Former member of the GUD Alain Orsoni was member of the FLNC. [36]
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Successor | Social Bastion |
---|---|
Formation | 1968 |
Dissolved | June 26, 2024[1] |
Type | Far-right students' union |
Location |
Groupe Union Défense (originally named Groupe Union Droit), better known as GUD, was a French far-right students' union formed in the 1960s. After a period of inactivity it relaunched in 2022. [2] [3] [4]
The GUD was based in Panthéon-Assas University, [5] [6] [7] a law school in Paris.
On 26 June 2024, the French government ordered the dissolution of the GUD. [8]
Formed as far-right, anti-communist youth organization, in the mid-1980s, the GUD turned toward support of the Third Position movements and " national revolutionary" theories, [9] as well as embracing anti-Zionism, anti-Americanism and support for Hafez al-Assad. [10]
GUD took as symbol the Celtic cross and the comic black rats (rats noirs). [11] [12]
Some music groups of Rock identitaire français had connections with GUD. [13] [14] [15]
GUD was founded in December 1968 under the name Union Droit at Panthéon-Assas University [10] by Alain Robert (politician) , Gérard Longuet, [16] Gérard Ecorcheville and some members of the political movement Occident. In its early period, it was a reactionary bourgeois student movement, and some of its early members went on to become mainstream conservative politicians, including Gérard Longuet, Hervé Novelli and Alain Madelin. [10] [17]
Members of the GUD participated in the 1969 founding of Ordre Nouveau. [18]
During the 1970s and early 1980s, linked to the Parti des forces nouvelles (PFN),the GUD published the satiric monthly Alternative. [19] Members in this period included Alain Orsoni , a Corsican nationalist linked to organised crime and suspected of the murder of Marie-Jeanne Bozzi. [10]
On 9 May 1994 GUD member Sébastien Deyzieu died after clashes between nationalists and riot police. [20] [21] Following these event, some French nationalist groups formed an umbrella organization Comité du 9-Mai (C9M) and holds[ clarification needed] yearly a commemorative marches in Paris on May 9. [22] [23]
In 1998, the Group united itself with Jeune Résistance and the Union des cercles résistance, offshoots of Nouvelle Résistance group, under the name Unité Radicale, but it was dissolved [24] [25] after Maxime Brunerie's failed assassination attempt on president Jacques Chirac. [26]
In 2004, the GUD reformed under the name Rassemblement étudiant de droite . Its publication was Le Dissident. [27]
In 2017 members of the GUD squatted a building in Lyon and founded political movement Social Bastion. [28] [29] [30]
In late 2022, graffiti appeared in educational institutions in Paris (including the École Normale Supérieure) saying "GUD is back"; a video was released on Ouest Casual , a Telegram channel used by the far right, commemorating some Greek neo-Nazis; and the GUD slogan “Europe, Youth, Revolution” appeared on stickers in Paris and chants at a right-wing demonstration in Lyon. Its activists were reported to be drawn from far-right trade union La Cocarde Étudiante , the ultra-right group the Zouaves, traditionalist Catholics from Versailles, and football hooligans. [10]
Successive leaders of the GUD were: Alain Robert, Jack Marchal, Jean-François Santacroce, Serge Rep, Philippe Cuignache, Charles-Henri Varaut, Frédéric Chatillon, William Bonnefoy, Benoît Fleury.
Some GUD members have fought in Lebanese Civil War [31] in 1976, Croatian War of Independence [32] in the 1990s and in Burma during Karen conflict. [33] In 1985 member of the GUD Jean-Philippe Courrèges was killed in action fighting for the Karen National Liberation Army. [34]
GUD members have had links with the Department for Protection and Security, which is the security organization of the far-right political party National Front. [35]
Former member of the GUD Alain Orsoni was member of the FLNC. [36]