What is the racist and fascist danger in France today?
The major factor of recent months in France is Hollande's loss of the credit he had when elected in 2012. This is a longer version of the article than in the printed paper. It presents a somewhat different angle on the Dieudonné affair from Yves Coleman's article in Solidarity 309 . Hollande was able to beat Sarkozy not because of his programme and his campaign, but because the masses sought a political way out, and that will to get rid of Sarkozy was boosted by the campaign of the Front de Gauche and [Jean-Luc] Mélenchon, especially following on from the success of the Paris demonstration of...