Alona Liasheva is an intern at LeftEast and an Urban Studies Master student focusing on migration and spatial segregation. She is a co-editor of Commons: Journal for Social Criticism.
The first round of the local elections took place against a backdrop of widespread creeping fascism in France and comes after a brutal offensive by the far right, during which the traditional ‘Republican’ right has decisively broken from much of its historical framework and values.
