A-Infos (en) France, UCL AL #356 - Antifascism - 42. Cartography of the Horde: Always more fascists (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Every year, the antifascist collective La Horde updates its diagram of 
the extreme right in France, entitled "The extreme right: better know it 
to better fight it". A quick glance at the latest version brings an 
unequivocal conclusion: the fachosphere has not stopped expanding and 
establishing itself, while constantly evolving in its form. ---- For the 
first time last year, two versions[1]followed one another less than six 
months apart, proof of the rapid expansion of far-right networks. ---- 
The evolution of the French fachosphere is first of all due to the 
strong weakening of the national parties and organizations of the 
radical far right, which has dispersed into a myriad of local groups, 
focused on violent action. These groups are created and disappear 
quickly. There are now so many of them that La Horde has created a 
specific map of their location[2].

The far right is extending its influence in several areas, particularly 
in the media and education. In the identified structures, where 
previously there were mainly political groups, there are now schools and 
training centers (such as ISSEP or IFP)[3], but above all a dense 
network of local and national media, notably those of the Bolloré group, 
the mouthpiece of reactionary and nationalist ideologies.

The extension of this influence is also found in media personalities 
openly rallied to the fachosphere (who can be found on Cnews or TPMP): 
whether they are directly employed in friendly media or freelance on the 
networks, these personalities are the vanguard of the cultural war that 
the far right is waging on all fronts. This widespread struggle is also 
characterized by the emergence of specific structures that renew the 
intervention of fascist activists, such as the student "union" La 
Cocarde, or Nemesis, a nationalist and racist women's collective created 
in opposition to the feminist movement. However, one omission should be 
noted in this map: the absence of representation of the still timid 
attempts to build a climate-sceptic movement in the face of developments 
in environmental movements.

The RN remains the pivot of the far right
The National Rally (RN) is still the central force around which the 
entire political sphere of the far right gravitates. While she inherited 
a weakened structure at the beginning of the 2010s, Marine Le Pen now 
finds herself at the head of a very strong organization with 125 
deputies, to which are added 16 deputies from the ex-LR grouped around 
Éric Ciotti. During the legislative elections of June 2024, the RN once 
again crushed any desire to compete with its hegemony on the far right, 
with Éric Zemmour bearing the brunt. Going beyond its traditional 
ideological base, these elections allowed it to absorb or permanently 
satellize the old "republican" right. However, the RN does not have the 
smooth image it gives itself: several of its executives and 
parliamentary assistants received their political education within more 
radical groups. This is also one of the many interests of this map: to 
highlight the proximity of all the players in the nationalist nebula. A 
thousand miles from any normalization, the leader of the RN is only a 
few handshakes away from the most radical traditionalist or fascist. In 
2024 as in early 2025, the far right remains the far right and it is 
necessary to know it better in order to better combat it! Hugues (UCL 
Fougères)

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[1]"Diagram of the far right in France - winter 2024 (15th edition)", La 
Horde, November 2024: 
https://lahorde.info/Schema-de-l-extreme-droite-en-France-hiver-2024-15e-edition

[2]"Map of local far-right groups (2nd edition)", La Horde, September 
2023: 
https://lahorde.info/Combattre-l-extreme-droite-partout-ou-elle-s-implante-2e-edition.

[3]The Institute of Social, Economic and Political Sciences (ISSEP) is a 
private higher education school (business school type, 
management-oriented) founded in 2018 in Lyon by Thibaut Monnier and 
Marion Maréchal. She was its general director until 2022. The Institute 
for Political Training (IFP) is a liberal-conservative training 
organization created in 2004 by Alexandre Pesey, Jean Martinez and 
Thomas Millon. The IFP is close to La Manif pour tous and traditionalist 
Catholicism, with an identity sensitivity.

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