Catarina Principe is a social movement activist from Portugal. She is a member of Bloco de Esquerda and a contributing editor at Jacobin, and has been a member of Die Linke. She is the coeditor of the book Europe in Revolt (Haymarket, 2016).
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.