Established in 1987 from the merger of the International Group and Socialist Group, the International Socialist Group was of the British section of the Fourth International until 2008, when it disolved into Socialist Resistance.
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.