In 1960 in the UK, the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and Left Review merged their boards and formed the New Left Review. The Universities and Left Review grew out of the Suez crisis in 1956; their journal centred on a rejection of the dominant 'revisionist' orthodoxy within the Labour Party.
Together they would be at the forefront of the New Left in Britain, with the New Left Review as their theoretical journal. Through the journal, the members of the New Left would create 'New Left Clubs', and began working towards the reestablishment of Socialism as a viable force in English working-class politics. As Raphael Samuel observed, "the New Left defined not so much a politics but a stance; it was concerned not so much to establish a platform but to open a space! […] a space between the two dominant Cold war Socialist alternatives--Stalinism and social democracy."
Since a redesign and relaunch in 2000, NLR has led with major articles on the United States, China, Japan, Europe, Britain, Indonesia, Cuba, Iraq, Mexico, India and Palestine. It has featured major analyses of the global economy, the post-Seattle anti-corporate globalization activism, discussions of world literature and cinema, cultural criticism and the avant-garde. It's current editor is Perry Anderson.
External link
New Left Review website (http://www.newleftreview.org). Articles, interviews and book reviews, with an archive going back to 1960.
The "NewLeft" was an intellectually driven movement which attempted to correct the perceived errors of "Old Left" parties in the post-WWII period.
The NewLeft opposed the prevailing authority structures in society, which it termed "The Establishment," and those who rejected this authority became known as "anti-Establishment." The NewLeft avoided recruiting industrial workers, and concentrated on a social activist approach to organizing.
Loosely associated with the NewLeft was the Berkeley Free Speech Movement which began in 1964 as a coalition of student groups opposing restrictions to leftist political activity on campus.
In 1960 in the UK, the editors of the New Reasoner and the Universities and LeftReview merged their boards and formed the NewLeftReview.
The Universities and LeftReview grew out of the Suez crisis in 1956; their journal centred on a rejection of the dominant 'revisionist' orthodoxy within the Labour Party, from a Marxist perspective.
Together they would be at the forefront of the NewLeft in Britain, with the NewLeftReview as their theoretical journal.
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