The left’s victory in France’s parliamentary election shows that the country’s most important political actors—urban workers and young people—want to fight against both fascism and neoliberalism.
According to Britain’s Economist magazine, a weekly diary of establishment opinion, the “political centre has been dented but it still holds”. Yet parties of the centre lost to the far right in the continent’s biggest countries.
In late 2001, the far right led three days of sometimes ultra-violent protests against the Victorian Labor government’s pandemic health mandates. Ben Hillier joined the throng.
