The increasingly likely presence of American media groups, including one major TV network, as well as support for this demonstration from several French politicians that spoke out in favor of America’s operations in Iraq, are making for a nice autumn season for France’s libertarians and republicans. For some political figures, the coming together of the libertarian and republican camps is giving rise to an authentic hope that a large French libertarian-republican political current could absorb the up and coming elements of the French right as Chirac’s gaullists, the remnants of the old Gaullist right which tried to stop its decline by forming the UMP, loses its strength.

For some, this political current, which distinguishes itself by its uninhibited positions on secularity in reaction to Islam’s spread in Europe, is openly pro-Atlantic, federalist European, and clearly favorable to Israel’s policies, could represent a new generation especially because it is building on two huge victories — the succesful demonstration on June 15 initiated by Liberté Chérie, and the development of a news web site running counter to French media, Revue-politique, read everyday by approximately 15,000 readers.

The age of the movements’ leaders is also of interest to the political personnalities that are observing its emergence: almost all are in their 30s with a few 40 year olds. Independant, free, the decision to carry out ’Operation GMO’ is not without a precise objective, the target is well designated: José Bové and all he stands for, and beyond him a break with the Chiraco-Gaullism now on its last legs. The ’next generation’, the new right, the label doesn’t matter, Liberté Chérie and Revue-Politique are leading the charge.