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.

 

The Specter of Capitalism The Specter of Capitalism

The rulers of the capitalist world who came to Paris for the bicentennial celebrations last month were in a smug mood.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Poland Chooses—What’s at Stake Poland Chooses—What’s at Stake

Walesa vs. Mazowiecki.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer and Lawrence Goodwyn

Germany Muscles In Germany Muscles In

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Emperors Are Naked The Emperors Are Naked

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Triumph of Euroamericanism The Triumph of Euroamericanism

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Ghosts of May The Ghosts of May

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Mitterrand Redux Mitterrand Redux

Mitterrand can make it. He is, undoubtedly, the winner of the first round in the French presidential election.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The French C.P.—On the Way Out? The French C.P.—On the Way Out?

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / 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

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