NEW LEFT REVIEW

The '''New Left Review''' is a political journal, founded in 1960 in the UK after the editors of the ''New Reasoner'' and the ''Universities and Left Review'' merged their boards. The ''Universities and Left Review'' had grown 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 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.
The name "New Left" came from radical American sociologist C.Wright
Mills. He wrote an "Open letter to the New Left", 1960. He disclaimed
the "Old Left", both Communist and Reformist, as well as radical Liberals, who betrayed the ideals of freedom and justice. Mills called
himself a "Plain Marxist", a man that works in tradition of the
young Marx, Alienation Theorie. He made a great impact on young
intellectuals.
The journal was initially edited by Stuart Hall, but he was replaced in 1962 by Perry Anderson, who in his first period as editor expanded the focus of the review to debates within Western Marxism. Robin Blackburn took over from Anderson in 1982, and continued in this role until a redesign and relaunch in 2000 The period of Blackburn's editorship was marked by a major rift on the editorial committee which culminated in the resignation of the majority of its members in 1993, a fact that is not mentioned in the official history on the New Left Review website. Perry Anderson became the editor again, briefly; Susan Watkins took over the role of editor in 2003.
In its new form, 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.

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★ New Left Review website Articles, interviews and book reviews, with an archive going back to 1960. The site also includes an article on the journal's history here.

★ Text of the March 1993 resignation of the majority of the editorial committee.

★ The precursors of the ''New Left Review'', ''The New Reasoner'' and ''Universities & Left Review'', have their contents archived at the Amiel Melburn Trust Internet Archive.