Third Way (France)

Third Way (French:Troisième voie) a French Third Position organisation founded in 1985 by a merger of the small neo-fascist "Mouvement nationaliste révolutionnaire", which gathered former members of François Duprat's Revolutionary Nationalist Groups (GNR), with dissidents from the "Parti des forces nouvelles". [ [http://www.france-politique.fr/annuaire-extreme-droite.htm#TV Annuaire de l'extrême-droite en France: Troisième Voie] ]

Led by Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, the party adopted the slogan of 'neither trusts nor soviets' ("ni trusts, ni soviets") and stood against communism, capitalism and Zionism. It used a trident as its emblem. For a time the party was associated with the Groupe Union Défense but maintained a generally poor relationship with the Front National (FN). This was the case until 1991 when Malliarakis decided to approach the FN, leading to a schism within the party from those who felt the FN did not conform to their way of thinking. As a result Christian Bouchet and his followers split off to form Nouvelle Résistance, a group that was to be more National Bolshevik in tone. The Third Way itself remained in the hands of Malliarakis but was dissolved soon after the split.

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