Articles

The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly The Revolution Seen Through a Glass Darkly

A film beginning with a shot of a little boy being beaten for not having learned the Declaration of the Rights of Man by heart, and closing in the overwhelming shadow of the guillo...

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

Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power Imagination Has Not Yet Taken Power

"What has happened to your 'socialist' France? Is it going the way of all social-democratic flesh?"

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

‘Solidarity Will Never Die’ ‘Solidarity Will Never Die’

If Polish law supposes that a huge social movement can be voted out of existence, then, as Mr.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Three on Poland Three on Poland

In August 1980 the Gdansk shipyard workers astonished the world by winning the right to set up a genuinely independent labor union.

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

Solidarity–Lest We Forget Solidarity–Lest We Forget

Those on the left who cherished the illusion that Poland would somehow vanish from the news and that Solidarity would disappear from our political consciousness have been disappoin...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Communism and the Left Communism and the Left

On the evening of February 6 at Town Hall in New York City, various elements of the American left (spanning Gore Vidal and PATCO and including E.L.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Various Contributors

Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks Jaruzelski Sends in the Tanks

Sunday, December 13, order reigned in Warsaw. Martial law had been proclaimed. Tanks patrolled the streets of the capital.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard How the Left Is Helping to Re-elect Giscard

Suspense without passion is France's strange electoral mood for the moment. President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing's advisers are both perturbed and fundamentally optimistic.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Only a Beginning… Only a Beginning…

Nothing is over but the counting and not even that. In the last two Sundays of June, Frenchmen will return to the polls, and François Mitterrand will invite them to confirm ...

Jan 2, 1998 / 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

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