Dan Jakopovich is the main editor of Novi Plamen, a left-wing magazine on the territory of former Yugoslavia. He was a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Party USA, and the chair of its Labor Commission, in 2007 and 2008.
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.