Thomas Farzi is a writer and journalist. He is the author of The Battle for Europe (Pluto, 2014) and, with Bill Mitchell, of Reclaiming the State (Pluto, 2017).
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.
