Jean-Gilles Malliarakis

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

Biography

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 says 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. First a member of Action française's youth branch, he later joined the student movement Occident, alongside other notable French political figures such as future government members Alain Madelin, Gérard Longuet, Patrick Devedjian and future National Front executive François Duprat [1] He eventually stopped frequenting Occident in 1966[2] and was formally expelled from the group the next year.[3]

Whilst a student at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, he created his own movement, Action nationaliste[4], which was classified as neofascist.[5] In 1969, he notoriously organized at the Institute of Political Studies a meeting the celebrate 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 groupe Ordre Nouveau.[8] Afterwards, he left frontline politics for a few years.[9] He resurfaced in the mid-1970s when he bought the bookstore owned by Henry Coston and his wife. His shop, the "Librairie française", became a notorious venue for the far 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.[10] In 1979, he renamed the GAJ Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire (MNR). He advocated at that time "national revolutionary" positions.[11] Historian Pierre Milza described Malliarakis' positions as somewhat similar to Mussolini's early left-wing fascism and Georges Valois's interwar Faisceau.[12]

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. As the National Front became dominant in the French far right, he tried to create an alliance with the Party of New Forces and, in 1984, renamed his own movement Third Way. He also tried to form an alliance with the GRECE but this attempt was fruitless. An alliance with the GUD was equally short-lived.[11] Also during the 1980s, he started working for the neo-Poujadist syndicate Confédération de défense des commerçants et artisans[11] and became a speaker at the right-wing station Radio Courtoisie.[13].

In 1991, the Third Way movement split after a conflict with Christian Bouchet's tendency.[14] Malliarakis later dissolved what was left of the movement and retired from frontline 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 neoliberal positions and joined Alain Madelin's Idées action mouvement.[15] In February 2007, after the death of station founder Jean Ferré, he left Radio Courtoisie as he disagreed 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]

Ouvrages

  • Yalta et la naissance des blocs, Albatros (1982).
  • Ni trust ni soviets, Paris, La Librairie française-Le Trident, 458 p. (1985).
  • L'Éditeur emprisonné, avec Franco Freda, La Librairie française (1985).
  • Le Livre noir des retraites, Le Trident (1997).
  • La Droite la plus suicidaire du monde, Le Trident (1998).
  • L'histoire recommence toujours, Le Trident (1998).
  • La Question turque et l'Europe, Le Trident (2009).
  • L'Alliance Staline-Hitler, 1939-1941, Le Trident (2011).
  • Pour une libération fiscale, Le Trident (2012).
  • La Faucille et le Croissant : islam et bolchevisme au congrès de Bakou, Le Trident (2015).

References

  1. ↑ Charpier, pp. 95-96
  2. ↑ Charpier, p. 205
  3. ↑ Charpier, p. 143
  4. ↑ Chebel d'Apollonia, p. 315
  5. ↑ Milza, p. 134
  6. ↑ Milza, p. 142
  7. ↑ Charpier, p. 217
  8. ↑ Charpier, p. 221-222
  9. ↑ Camus, p.89
  10. ↑ Chebel d'Apollonia, p. 350
  11. 1 2 3 Camus, p. 90
  12. ↑ Milza, p. 142-143
  13. ↑ Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, radio-courtoisie.over-blog.com, 26 juin 2005
  14. ↑ Camus, p. 341
  15. ↑ Charpier, p. 343
  16. ↑ LJ Jean-Gilles Malliarakis 23/2, radio-courtoisie.over-blog.com, 23 février 2007
  17. ↑ La mairie de Paris exfiltre un colloque sur l’islamisme organisé avec Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, Droites extrêmes, on Le Monde, 19 October 2016

Bibliography

  • Frédéric Charpier, Génération Occident : de l'extrême droite à la droite, Seuil, 2005, 353 p.
  • Pierre Milza, L'Europe en chemise noire : Les extrêmes droites en Europe de 1945 à aujourd'hui, Seuil, 2002, 480 p.
  • Ariane Chebel d'Apollonia, L'extrême droite en France : de Maurras à Le Pen, Seuil, 1999, 520 p.
  • Jean-Yves Camus, Les Droites nationales et radicales en France, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1992, 526 p.
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