Magdalena Ostrowska is a journalist and editor of the review “Rewolucja” (“Revolution”) and the daily “Trybuna”. This interview first appeared in the “Impuls” supplement to the daily “Trybuna” on December 1, 2005.
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.