Pierre-Yves Salingue is a member of the Ligue communiste révolutionnaire (LCR - French section of the Fourth International). He visited the occupied territories for several months in 2001 and 2002.
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.