Luc Michel (born 1958) is a

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political activist. He is the current leader and founder of the

Parti Communautaire National-Européen The Parti Communautaire National-Européen (PCN) is a Belgium-based political organisation led by Luc Michel, a former member of the neo-Nazi FANE party. A largely National Bolshevik movement, it also has activists in France.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.

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, ''

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'', Warner Books, p. 479 Inspired by the success of Jean-Marie LePen in

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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 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

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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, acted as observers of the Crimean status referendum.European right-wing extremists and other pro-Russian activists "observed" the Crimean "referendum"
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Ideology

Michel is a supporter of

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and has described himself as a "national communist". He has created a number of peridocials that stress opposition to

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and the

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, leader of the

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, in this endeavour. In his writing Michel has expressed admiration for several developing world figures, including

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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 spellin ...

. His attraction to the latter led him to establish the ''Mouvement Européen pour la Démocratie Directe'', a think tank inspired by the

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. Michel established contact with the

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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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