Gonzalo Pozo is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London. He has written extensively on Marxist theory of imperialism and Russian foreign policy. His Geopolitics of Capitalism is forthcoming from Pluto Press.
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.