Baba Aye is a contributing editor of Review of African Political Economy [RoAPE] and author of Era of Crisis & Revolts (2012). He works as policy officer with a global union federation in Geneva.
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.
