The French Far Right has taken the world by storm after Marine Le Pen managed to secure their highest score ever. Le Pen’s National Front is the most racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic political party in France, and whose sudden surge in popularity badly for any hopes of a narrowing of consensus towards ending the horrors of neo-colonialism in its former colonies.

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The one in five votes for the Far Right brought summons bitter memories of the horrors of the Algerian wars, recurring political coups and instabilities in former Frenchcolonies.

It looks as though the National Front is planning a fierce and hate fuelled comeback, poised to stigmatise and discriminate against foreigners around the world in order to secure their party’s future.

In fact, the Front National (FN) was founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen, who was opposed to the independence of Algeria, and allegedly tortured prisoners.

Many of its members would later join various anti-communist struggles around the world. Le Pen obtained 0.74% when he first presented himself for presidential election in 1974. His party became stronger throughout the 1980s.

The Daily Telegraph correspondent in Paris, Henry Samuel, in his article of 23 April 2012, entitled ‘One in five votes for the Far-Right as Sarkozy is beaten into second place’, wrote:

“Miss Le Pen’s success will boost her influence on the French political scene, and is likely to hand her party seats in parliament later in the year. It could affect relations with minorities in France and in the other European countries after a campaign based on rhetoric against immigration, Islam and the European Union.”

In an exclusive interview with Amanpour from CNN on April  23, 2012 at 8pm, the French philosopher, journalist and socialist, Bernard Henry Levy, admitted that “Ms Le Pen’s political party is representing the old dark fascism, a kind of racism and xenophobic philosophy.”

The tune is too grave and should be taken very seriously: The Front National may have chosen the perfect profile to reshape its appearance: the clever, attractive, young blonde with a distinguished voice, Ms Marine Le Pen.

But it is only appearances that have changed: Marine is just the fresh new face of the same ugly party her father founded in 1972 with Jacques Bompard:

A former organisation member of “l’armée secrète” (in English, ‘the secret army’), or OAS, which is believed to have operated as a nationalist terrorist organization during the Algerian War of 1954 to 1962, which it exploited in an armed struggle to attempt to prevent Algeria’s independence. Its leitmotiv was ‘L’Algérie est française et le restera’ (in English: Algeria is French and will remain so).

The secret army’s primary concern was to organise sabotage and assassination of high profile politicians in French territories to prevent them from becoming independent and consequently to have a total control of all their mineral and natural resources.

The comeback of the National Front could be associated with the stigmatisation and discrimination of foreigners living in France and around the world, while secretly continuing monopolise their mineral, human, cultural, political and economic resources, using all means necessary, such as political coups, and the jailing or assassination of African high profile intellectuals and political leaders….

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