Maurice Najman (1948–1999) was a French

political journalist Political journalism is a broad branch of journalism that includes coverage of all aspects of politics and political science, although the term usually refers specifically to coverage of civil governments and political power. Political j ...

during the late 1960s. He had a leftist political stance and mainly worked for ''

Libération ''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France ...

'' and ''

Le Monde diplomatique ''Le Monde diplomatique'' (meaning "The Diplomatic World" in French) is a French monthly newspaper offering analysis and opinion on politics, culture, and current affairs. The publication is owned by Le Monde diplomatique SA, a subsidiary com ...

''. He was one of the leading figures of the youth movement of 1968 and cofounded a leftist organization, Comités d’Action Lycéens (CAL), targeting high school students in 1967.

Biography

Najman was born in

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in 1948. His parents were of

Polish-Jewish The history of the Jews in Poland dates back at least 1,000 years. For centuries, Poland was home to the largest and most significant Ashkenazi Jewish community in the world. Poland was a principal center of Jewish culture, because of the lon ...

origin. His father was a communist militant His mother, Solange, was a survivor of Auschwitz. Her mother was

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’s cousin. Najman was a member of the Revolutionary Marxist Alliance (AMR), a

Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a ...

organization, in the 1970s. He contributed to ''Libération'', ''Le Monde diplomatique'' and ''L’Autre'' journal in which he published articles on international politics. He died in Paris on 4 February 1999.

References

French political journalists 1948 births 1999 deaths 20th-century French journalists French male journalists French people of Polish-Jewish descent French Trotskyists Journalists from Paris {{France-journalist-stub