Helmut Dahmer is a sociologist and Professor Emeritus at the University in Darmstadt, now living in Vienna. He is the chief editor of the works of Leon Trotzky in German.
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.
