Daniel Singer

Europe Correspondent

Daniel Singer, for many years The Nation's Paris-based Europe correspondent, was born on September 26, 1926, in Warsaw, was educated in France, Switzerland and England and died on December 2, 2000, in Paris.

He was a contributor to The Economist, The New Statesman and the Tribune and appeared as a commentator on NPR, "Monitor Radio" and the BBC, as well as Canadian and Australian broadcasting. (These credits are for his English-language work; he was also fluent in French, Polish, Russian and Italian.)

He was the author of Prelude to Revolution: France in May 1968 (Hill & Wang, 1970), The Road to Gdansk (Monthly Review Press, 1981), Is Socialism Doomed?: The Meaning of Mitterrand (Oxford, 1988) and Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours? (Monthly Review Press, 1999).

A specialist on the Western European left as well as the former Communist nations, Singer ranged across the Continent in his dispatches to The Nation. Singer sharply critiqued Western-imposed economic "shock therapy" in the former Eastern Bloc and US support for Boris Yeltsin, sounded early warnings about the re-emergence of Fascist politics into the Italian mainstream, and, across the Mediterranean, reported on an Algeria sliding into civil war.

The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation was founded in 2000 to honor original essays that help further socialist ideas in the tradition of Daniel Singer.

 

‘Les Affaires,’ or Zola Was Right ‘Les Affaires,’ or Zola Was Right

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Dawn in Poland Dawn in Poland

Dual power, Lenin wrote, cannot last long. But just how long?

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Gladiators The Gladiators

In order to perpetuate capitalism as the final stage of history, Washington has less Hegelian means at its disposal than Francis Fukuyama suggested.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Coup in Algeria Coup in Algeria

CORRECTION: 28 percent of registered voters chose the Islamic Salvation Front. (3/2/92).

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Yeltsin in Dubious Battle Yeltsin in Dubious Battle

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Election ’95—Fractured France Election ’95—Fractured France

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Only a Beginning… Only a Beginning…

Nothing is over but the counting and not even that.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest A Prophecy, a Protest, a Priest

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Poland—Ashes and Diamonds Poland—Ashes and Diamonds

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Solidarity—The Road to Power Solidarity—The Road to Power

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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