Nizar Amami is a Tunisian trades unionist in the PTT and a member of the Ligue de la gauche ouvrière (LGO – Workers’ Left League). This article first appeared in TEAN NPA, France) on January 12, 2011.
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.
