Sheila Malone is a long-time supporter of the Fourth International in Britain. She is co-author of ’Ecosocialism or Barabarism’ and an editor of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe.
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.
