Mahdi Sâad-Eddine is a member of the leadership of the Parti socialiste des travailleurs (PST – Socialist Workers’ Party, Algerian section 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.