John Tully is a member of the Socialist Democracy group in Australia and is a long time supporter of the Fourth International. He worked as a rigger and dogman during the 1970s and 1980s and was often a BLF shop steward.
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.