PARIS (AP) — Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s main far-right party and a polarizing figure in French politics, is being buried Saturday in a private family ceremony in his hometown of La Trinité-sur-Mer in Brittany.

as Le Pen was a polarizing figure, convicted multiple times of antisemitism, discrimination and inciting racial violence. Family members, including his daughter Marine Le Pen, now the leading far ...

Over 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died last week at the age of 96

Marine Le Pen, became the leader of the National Front in 2011. She sought to make the party more mainstream, trying to remove the stigma of racism and antisemitism that clung to the party under ...

The death of French fascist leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was accompanied by cloying tributes from fascists, conservatives and liberals alike, writes Olly Haynes – quite a send-off for a man once described as the ‘devil’ of French politics.

More than 1,000 people attended a memorial ceremony yesterday in central Paris for the founder of France’s main far-right party, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who died earlier this month aged 96. The “mass for the repose of the soul” at Notre-Dame du Val-de-Grace church took place under tight security,

After the Axis powers’ defeat in World War II, many former Nazis and Vichyites recycled themselves as anti-communists. Jean-Marie Le Pen sought to rally such forces with radicalized conservatives in a common front against the red peril.

More recently, Musk has faced criticism for hosting a conversation with Alice Weidel, the leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right political party. The AfD has been linked to Nazi-sympathetic rhetoric that has even alienated other far-right movements, such as Marine Le Pen’s National Rally in France.

Jean-Marie Le Pen brought fascist views into the French mainstream, writes Nabila Ramdani. She reflects on his far-right legacy following his death.

Thomas Piketty is one of the world’s leading economists, a socialist who has been studying the corrosive effects of inequality for decades. Last May, he sat down with Harvard’s Michael Sandel, one of the world’s most prominent political philosophers,

Once called the 'most hated man in France', Le Pen maintained that his ideas were simply 'ahead of their time'

The United Nations announced new actions on Friday (January 17, 2025) to counter the surge in antisemitism, including encouraging governments to enforce laws against hate crimes and discrimination.