Groupe Union Défense


Groupe Union Défense, better known as GUD, was a French far-right students' union.
The GUD was based in Panthéon-Assas University, a renowned law school in Paris.

Ideology

Formed as far-right, anti-communist youth organization, in the mid-1980s, the GUD turned toward support of the Third Position movements and "national revolutionary" theories.

Culture

GUD took as symbol the Celtic cross and the comic black rats.
Some music groups of Rock identitaire français had connections with GUD.

History

GUD was founded in 1968 under the name Union Droit at Panthéon-Assas University by Alain Robert, Gérard Longuet, Gérard Ecorcheville and, and some members of the political movement Occident.
Members of the GUD participated in the 1969 founding of Ordre Nouveau.
During the 1970s and early 1980s, linked to the Parti des forces nouvelles, the GUD published the satiric monthly Alternative.
On 9 May 1994 GUD member died after clashes between nationalists and riot police. Following these event, some French nationalist groups formed an umbrella organization Comité du 9-Mai and holds yearly a commemorative marches in Paris on May 9.
In 1998, the Group united itself with Jeune Résistance and the Union des cercles résistance, offshoots of Nouvelle Résistance group, under the name Unité Radicale, but it was dissolved after Maxime Brunerie's failed assassination attempt on president Jacques Chirac.
In 2004, the GUD reformed under the name. Its publication is Le Dissident.
In 2017 members of the GUD squatted a building in Lyon and founded political movement Social Bastion.

Members

Successive leaders of the GUD were: Alain Robert,, Jean-François Santacroce, Serge Rep, Philippe Cuignache, Charles-Henri Varaut, Frédéric Chatillon, William Bonnefoy, Benoît Fleury.

Military volunteers

Some GUD members have fought in Lebanese Civil War in 1976, Croatian War of Independence in the 1990s and in Burma during Karen conflict. In 1985 member of the GUD Jean-Philippe Courrèges was killed in action fighting for the KNLA.
GUD members have had links with the Department of Protection-Security, which is the security organization of the far-right political party National Front.
Former member of the GUD was member of the FLNC.