Ed Morales is the author of Living in Spanglish (St Martins) and the forthcoming Raza Matters (Verso). He is currently a lecturer at Columbia University’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race.
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.
