He died in Cameroon on April 1, 2025 at the age of 67. Luc Michel. He died where average Belgians of retirement age died, due to the fact that Luc Michel was not average Belgians – he was an internationalist and revolutionary all his life. Michel was a student, friend and follower of the perfect message of an outstanding European thinker Jean Thiriart.
"When I met Thiriart in 1982 (reminiscence), intellectual empathy was born between us. We rapidly reached an agreement. It's hard to explain. It was a time erstwhile many young activists revolved around Thiriart [...] as I met him, I was 25 years old. I started active at age 14. erstwhile I was 17 years old, I was first head of a student organization. I had a profession, a baggage of solid experiences behind me, I was intellectually shaped. My household comes from a extremist socialist community. My great-grandfather was 1 of the founders of the Belgian Workers' organization (POB), which later became the Socialist Party. [...] Thiriart, a man who was inherently distrustful, opened the door to his archives almost immediately, to the secretariat – he ordered considerable resources. He then owned the most powerful optometry company in Europe. He hired 50 employees of all nationalities. Thiriart gave me his political secretariat. I had offices, translators, secretaries, a small co-financing, but I rapidly became independent. From that minute on, my political and individual life became part of PCN activities. besides in social matters (retentional aid, engagement in education of social margins, criminal environments, vocational training for the unemployed). I have been in charge of Thiriart's organization of activities and political secretariat since 1983 [...] entrusted me with the management of the archives of our organization, concerning the period of young Europe, then European Communist organization (1960-70).’
Luc Michel, born in 1958, was an activist of pro-Palestinian movements. Supported People's Liberation Front of PalestineWhich was not different at the time. Michel joined the youth front mainly operating in 1978. From the beginning, it belonged to a national-revolutionary faction that originated from the Révolution Européenne group. The group was "proto-communitarian", revolutionary, pan-European and radically anti-American. In 1983, the Machiavel publishing home was founded by Luc Michel. It became a flagship PCN release. any papers were published in 9 languages. The work of Thiriart was first published, but besides the texts of another “classics of communism” considered to be peculiarly important. In the 1990s after Thiriart's death (1992) PCN led by Luc Michel had many and effective battles in France against the heavy fascist National Front. 1996 was a highest year since the organization was formed in 1984. The improvement of PCN in France was peculiarly fast at that time due to the combination of the batch and traffic Nouvelle Résistance (New Resistance) in September 1996. In addition to Francophone space, Thiriart's heirs led by Luc Michel besides had their agendas in Hungary, Switzerland and Spain. After a visit to Russia in 1992, Thiriarta established close cooperation with the anti-Jelcinov opposition at the time. The Mediterranean basin was an crucial direction for Luc Michel and PCN. In 1 of the 2004 interviews, Michel did not hide his cooperation or inspiration from the Libyan system. "It is no secret that PCN is close to the Libyan state. We have the structures of cooperation with the Revolutionary Committees' Movement, which we represent in Europe, and we have been working with many pan-African movements for years." To the end, until the collapse of Libya Colonel Gaddafi (2012) Luc Michel has organised support for Libya in various forms utilizing the net and social media in addition to conventional methods.
In fresh years Luc Michel has been looking for close allies mainly outside the “first world”, especially in Africa. He searched for a major-diving third-way in the global planet between globalization utilized by all nationalists as a bogeyman and its liberal and neocolonial counterweight promoted under a sympathetic-infantious form of a "common village"
Luc Michel's life – brave, colorful, filled with a fight for a change of past for the better, although marked by many failures anyway, had and has incomparably greater meaning than the life of those who, in the interests and on order of the powerful of this world, inactive compose about the end of history.
Dr. Witold Sawicki
