Luc Michel (born 1958) is a
Belgian
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*Ancient Belgian language, an extinct language ...
political activist. He is the current leader and founder of the
Parti Communautaire National-Européen (PCN). According to research by the BBC and Logically he is also the chief responsible person for a big francophone African social network and fake news network spreading pro-Russian and anti-Western propaganda.
Life
Luc Michel is from
Charleroi
Charleroi ( , , ; wa, Tchålerwè ) is a city and a municipality of Wallonia, located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. By 1 January 2008, the total population of Charleroi was 201,593. . In his youth Michel was a member of ''
Front de la Jeunesse'', a private militia group on the extreme right.
However he first came to prominence when he served as
Thiriart's personal secretary.
Martin A. Lee
Martin A. Lee is an American author and activist who has written books and articles on far-right movements, terrorism, media issues, and drug politics.
Education and career
Lee has an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Mich ...
, ''The Beast Reawakens
''The Beast Reawakens'' (later prints carried the subtitle ''Fascism's Resurgence from Hitler's Spymasters to Today's Neo-Nazi Groups and Right-Wing Extremists'') is a 1997 book by investigative journalist Martin A. Lee, in which the author discus ...
'', Warner Books, p. 479 Inspired by the success of
Jean-Marie LePen
Jean Louis Marie Le Pen (, born 20 June 1928) is a French far-right politician who served as President of the National Front from 1972 to 2011. He also served as Honorary President of the National Front from 2011 to 2015.
Le Pen graduated from ...
in
France
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, Michel attempted to establish a group using the National Front name in 1984, but this proved unsuccessful. A more long-lasting
Belgian National Front was established by
Daniel Féret
Daniel Féret (born 7 August 1944 in Momignies) is Belgian politician most noted as founder and long-term leader of the National Front. Féret worked as a physician.David Art, ''Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties i ...
the following year, although Michel took no role in this group due to a strong personal antipathy towards Féret.
[David Art, ''Inside the Radical Right: The Development of Anti-Immigrant Parties in Western Europe'', Cambridge University Press, 2011, p. 68]
He established the PCN in 1984, following the failure of his National Front initiative. Michel has been leader since foundation, although following the collapse of the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
he convinced his mentor Thiriart to become a member. Thiriart died soon afterwards however.
In 2014, Michel and Jean-Pierre Vandersmissen, as representatives of a group called the
Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections
Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections (EODE) is a Russia-based Eurasianist non-governmental organization which on its website claims that it monitors elections.
According to its website, it specializes in the "self-proclaimed republics" ...
, acted as observers of the
Crimean status referendum.
[European right-wing extremists and other pro-Russian activists "observed" the Crimean "referendum"](_blank)
, Searchlight magazine
''Searchlight'' is a British magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism and fascism in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
''Searchlights main focus is on the far right in the United Kingdom, as ...
Ideology
Michel is a supporter of
National Bolshevism
National Bolshevism (russian: национал-большевизм, natsional-bol'shevizm, german: Nationalbolschewismus), whose supporters are known as National Bolsheviks (russian: национал-большевики, natsional-bol'sheviki ...
and has described himself as a "national communist". He has created a number of peridocials that stress opposition to
Zionism
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a Nationalism, nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is ...
and the
United States
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.
[Pierre-André Taguieff, ''La Judéophobie des Modernes: Des Lumières au Jihad mondial'', Odile Jacob, 2008, p. 638] He is a lawyer by profession, he has also written extensively on his political ideas. He has claimed to have the support of
Gennady Zyuganov
Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (russian: Генна́дий Андре́евич Зюга́нов; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician, who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as M ...
, leader of the
Communist Party of the Russian Federation
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF; russian: Коммунистическая Партия Российской Федерации; КПРФ, Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Rossiyskoy Federatsii; KPRF) is a left-wing nationalist and c ...
, in this endeavour.
In his writing Michel has expressed admiration for several developing world figures, including
,
Juan Peron
''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of '' John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, ...
,
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...
and
Muammar Gaddafi
Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, . Due to the lack of standardization of transcribing written and regionally pronounced Arabic, Gaddafi's name has been romanized in various ways. A 1986 column by '' The Straight Dope'' lists 32 spelli ...
.
His attraction to the latter led him to establish the ''Mouvement Européen pour la Démocratie Directe'', a think tank inspired by the
Third International Theory
The Third International Theory () was the style of government proposed by Muammar Gaddafi in the early 1970s, on which his government, the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, was officially based. It was partly inspired by Islami ...
.
Michel established contact with the
Libya
Libya (; ar, ليبيا, Lībiyā), officially the State of Libya ( ar, دولة ليبيا, Dawlat Lībiyā), is a country in the Maghreb region in North Africa. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Su ...
n regime and in August 2003 organised with their help the ''quatrieme universite d'ete pour les mouvements verts, pacifistes et alternatifs en Europe'' as an attempt to encourage co-operation between elements of the far right and the far left.
[Taguieff, ''La Judéophobie des Modernes'', p. 639]
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''
References
External links
Luc Michel - official website
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1958 births
Belgian politicians
Living people
National Bolsheviks