Rena Lau has been working at Globalization Monitor since 2011. She is the author of the 2012 study “Restructuring of the Honda Auto Parts Union in Guangdong, China: a two-year assessment of the 2010 strike”
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.