Hilary Wainwright is co-editor of Red Pepper and Fellow of the Transnational Institute. She is the author of ’A New Politics From the Left’, Polity Press, February, 2018.
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.
