World

Rouge et Noir Rouge et Noir

Were there half a million or a million people marching in the Parisian drizzle on January 16? No one can say.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Hate in a Warm Climate Hate in a Warm Climate

He came, he threatened, but he didn't conquer. The French Riviera will not be the first important region in Europe to be ruled by neofascists.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

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

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

Creeping Capitalism Creeping Capitalism

Europe's landscape is changing--dramatically in its Eastern half, which is groping toward capitalism, and less spectacularly in the Western part, which is on the road to a sin...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Fast Forward Fast Forward

The sorcerer's apprentices could not even stage a coup.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

Something Rotten in the Kingdom Something Rotten in the Kingdom

When in London, if you have some time to spare, go east to the Isle of Dogs to visit what was to have been Europe's biggest office-plus-housing project.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Algeria Slides Into Civil War Algeria Slides Into Civil War

Voici le temps des assassins, the bilingual Algerians could exclaim, echoing Rimbaud, when nearly a year ago, their intellectuals began to be slaughtered by Islamic fundamentali...

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Election ’95–Fractured France Election ’95–Fractured France

The miracle did not happen. Dynamics, as Lionel Jospin had hoped, did not defeat arithmetic. On his third try, Jacques Chirac made it. The Socialist interlude is over.

Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer

Gdansk Showdown Gdansk Showdown

In the medieval city of Gdansk, in a courtroom packed with police, three men stand in the dock.

Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer

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