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.

 

Achille’s Gamble Achille’s Gamble

The P.C.I. has no intention now of attacking capitalism. It has become a social democratic party in all but name.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Western Front Western Front

Fundamentalism is spreading westward; now it has invaded the Maghreb.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Dream and the Nightmare The Dream and the Nightmare

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Bonjour Tristesse Bonjour Tristesse

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Back to Rwanda Back to Rwanda

The arrival of French peacekeeping troops in Rwanda was rather like arsonists returning as the fire brigade.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Death of a Collaborator Death of a Collaborator

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

May in December May in December

It's not May in December. The ten days that shook the Chirac government are not a repetition of the great rising of students and workers that precipitated the fall of Gen. Charles ...

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals The Rise of the Nouveaux Liberals

Letter From Europe

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

The Apparatchiks The Apparatchiks

What price is Poland paying for its Stalinist heritage?

Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer

New Days That Shake the World New Days That Shake the World

The legacy of 1917.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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