Something is stirring in France, and its name is Génération Identitaire:

We are Génération Identitaire.

We are the generation who get killed for glancing at the wrong person, for refusing someone a cigarette, or having an “attitude” that annoys someone.

We are the generation of ethnic fracture, total failure of coexistence,| and forced mixing of the races.

We are the generation doubly punished: Condemned to pay into a social system so generous with strangers it becomes unsustainable for our own people.

Our generation are the victims of the May ‘68’ers who wanted to liberate themselves from tradition, from knowledge and authority in education. But they only accomplished to| liberate themselves from their responsibilities.

We reject your history books to re-gather our memories.

We no longer believe that “Khader” could ever be our brother, we have stopped believing in a Global Village and the Family of Man.

We discovered that we have roots, ancestry and therefore a future.

Our heritage is our land, our blood, our identity. We are the heirs to our own future.

We turned off the TV to march the streets.

We painted our slogans on the walls, cried through loudspeakers for “youth in power”, and flew our Lambda flags high.

The Lambda, painted on proud Spartans’ shields, is our symbol.

Don’t you understand what this means? We will not back down, we will not give in.

We are sick and tired of your cowardice.

You are from the years of post-war prosperity, retirement benefits, S.O.S Racism and “diversity”, sexual liberation, and a bag of rice from Bernard Kouchner.

We are 25 percent unemployment, social debt, multicultural collapse and an explosion of anti-white racism. We are broken families, and young French soldiers dying in Afghanistan.

You won’t buy us with a condescending look, a state-paid job of misery, and a pat on the shoulder.

We don’t need your youth-policies. Youth IS our policy.

Don’t think this is simply a manifesto. It is a declaration of war.

You are of yesterday, we are of tomorrow.

We are Génération Identitaire.

Génération Identitaire is a youth movement founded last month by Fabrice Robert’s Bloc Identitaire. The latter has a history of ten years, but its antecents stretch back to 1974 and the formation of The Clock Club, an intellectual movement of a national conservative nature established at the same time as, but independently from, Alain de Benoist’s GRECE.

Perhaps it is this separation which underlies Fabrice Robert’s rejection of (the title of) nationalism. Bloc Identitaire describes itself as a force for grassroots, street and internet activism, and places some considerable emphasis on cultural projects. It is allied with movements of a similar nature in Portugal, Catalonia, Holland, Belgium (Vlaams Belang), and Italy (Lega Nord). Interestingly, Fabrice Robert states that “We do not fight to have more but to be ourselves”, and speaks of Reclamation. I think he probably is a nationalist. I think he is rejecting the usual philosophical default for continental European nationalism.

In any case, this video, with its very Gallic, almost film noire atmosphere has been doing the rounds of nationalist sites, with the result that it is now subtitled in Polish, in Greek, in Dutch, in Italian, in Spanish, and in German, as well as English.

There have been four German versions because the German state has blocked them on YouTube. That can’t be because French identity is “National Socialism”. It can only be because something about this film alarms the state apparatus. Mind you, they may have a different kind of rebellion on their hands in a few years.

Oh, and Lambda, by the way, means Everyman.