Terre et Peuple
Terre et Peuple (Land and People), abbreviated T&P, is a far-right, neopagan cultural association in France. It was founded by Pierre Vial in 1994 and publicly launched in 1995. Vial, an academic medievalist, had long been involved in far-right circles and helped create GRECE, a Nouvelle Droite group, before joining the Front National (FN). Frustrated by what he saw as too little focus on ethnicity, he started T&P with former GRECE members Jean Mabire and Jean Haudry. Some scholars see T&P as an outward expression of GRECE’s racial ideas and the FN’s neopagan current, while others note the group drew on both these influences.
T&P’s core aim, described by Vial as the “Identitarian cultural combat,” is based on the belief that cohabitation of different communities leads to conflict and that culture should be used to prepare for resistance and a future “war of liberation.” Vial links the group to the German völkisch tradition, though critics dispute labeling the group as neopagan in the religious sense. The organization’s ties to the FN weakened in 1998 when Vial aligned with Bruno Megret, and it later connected with Megret’s National Republican Movement before the 2001 split.
Internationally, T&P has branches in Belgium, Spain (Tierra y Pueblo), Portugal (Terra et Povo), and Italy (Terra Insubre). Since 2013 it has participated in the Action Européenne network based in Switzerland, a group scholars have described as neo-Nazi. In 2023, a watchdog described Terre et Peuple as a white nationalist and anti-immigrant group. T&P organizes annual roundtables, conferences, and publishes a quarterly magazine called Terre et Peuple, subtitled Résistance identitaire européenne (European identitarian resistance). The movement has claimed more than 700 members as of 2014.
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