Five Davs That Shook the Party Five Davs That Shook the Party
From February 6 through February 10, more than 1,700 delegates to the French Communist Party's twenty-fifth congress met in the roofed-over sports stadium at Saint-Ouen, a suburb...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest
Recently, The Economist took out a full-page advertisement in the Financial Times of London boasting that it had predicted the coal miners' strike six years ago.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The French C.P.–On the Way Out? The French C.P.–On the Way Out?
The French Communist Party has no future in the government. Does it have a future outside it?
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Schools, Sculptors and Spring Fools Schools, Sculptors and Spring Fools
March 4. Hundreds of thousands of French citizens are marching today to defend "educational freedom"--that is, uncontrolled state subsidies for private Catholic schools.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey Mitterrand: Middle of the Journey
On March 21, French President François Mitterrand arrives in the United States for a three-day state visit. When he was elected President in May 1981, he was the subject o...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
AutoWorkers and ‘Sniffing Planes’ AutoWorkers and ‘Sniffing Planes’
As the year opened in Paris, two stories dominated the news, one of them sad, the other funny. The first occurred at the Talbot auto plant in Poissy, just outside the capital.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals
Nothing is louder than the silence of intellectuals.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Honor the Man–and the Movement Honor the Man–and the Movement
Hardly had the Nobel Peace Prize committee announced that Solidarity leader Lech Walesa was its 1983 laureate but President Reagan and other cold warriors began praising the choice...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
How Many Masses Is Poland Worth? How Many Masses Is Poland Worth?
"Oh God," Heinrich Heine wrote, "how big is your zoo!" This sentence kept popping into my head in June as I read the dispatches of my journalistic colleagues on Pope John Paul II...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Socialism Takes Two Steps Back Socialism Takes Two Steps Back
The French socialist saga makes awkward reading for left-wingers. It has a wistful air of déjà vu.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer