Union syndicale des travailleurs kanaks et des exploités - (USTKE - Union of Kanak and Exploited Workers) one of the components of the Front de libération nationale kanak et socialiste (FLNKS - Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front).
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.