Fanny Gallot is a feminist and anti-capitalist activist in France. She is a researcher at LHEST at the University of Evry. She is author of En Découdre (La Découverte, 2015), on women workers’ struggles in France.
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.