Przemyslaw Wielgosz is the editor of the Polish left review “Lewa Noga” (“With the Left Foot”). He has published “Opium globalizacji” (“Opium of globalization”), ed. Dialog, Warsawe 2004.
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.
