Thomas Vescovi is an independent researcher in contemporary history. He has just published L’échec d’une utopie: une histoire de la gauche en Israël. (Editions La Découverte, Paris).
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.
