from the “ultraleft” to the “antifas”, what’s the actuality behind these labels? | EUROtoday

The loss of life of far-right activist Quentin Deranque, who succumbed to his accidents on Saturday February 14, two days after being overwhelmed on the sidelines of clashes between radical teams in Lyon, provokes an indictment of the“extreme left”of the“ultraleft” and even “antifa” by a big a part of the political spectrum – from the co-president of Place publique (heart left), Raphaël Glucksmann, to the chief of the National Rally (far proper), Jordan Bardella.

Some of those phrases, greater than two centuries previous, are used at present by each the left and the far proper, usually with meanings far faraway from their historic actuality. Les Décoders revisit 4 qualifiers commonly utilized in present public debate, in an effort to higher perceive their historical past and modern use.

“Far left”

Since the nineteenth century, the far left has introduced collectively political forces positioned to the left of the reformist left, which advocate the overthrow of capitalism. It is the French Communist Party which embodies it till the Popular Front (1936) and its “institutionalization”in response to the historian Sylvain Boulouque, specialist in anarchism and the intense left, and writer of Communism and syndicalism in interwar France (Deer, 2026).

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