Jean-Claude Laumonier is a retired nurse and a member of the CGT. He is a member of the Health-Sociali Security Commission of the NPA in France, and a member of the Fourth International.
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.