New Left

The New Left is a term used in political discourse to refer to radical left-wing movements from the 1960s onwards. They differed from earlier leftist movements that had been more oriented towards labor activism, and instead adopted a broader definition of political activism commonly called social activism. The "New Left" was an intellectually driven movement which attempted to correct the perceived errors of "Old Left" parties in the post-WWII period. The movement began to wind down in the 1970s, when activists either committed themselves to party projects, developed social justice organizations, or became inactive in the movement.

Further reading

U.K. New Left

• Hock, Paul and Vic Schoenbach. LSE: the natives are restless, a report on student power in action London: Sheed and Ward, 1969. ISBN 722005962
• Ali, Tariq. Street fighting years: a autobiography of the sixties London: Collins, 1987. ISBN 0-00-217779-X

U.S. New Left

• Archives
• New Left Movement: 1964-1973. Archive # 88-020. Title: New Left Movement fonds. 1964-1973. 51 cm of textual records. Trent University Archives. Peter Borough, Ontario, Canada. Online guide retreived April 12, 2005.
• Russ Gilbert "New Left" Pamphlet Collection: An inventory of the collection at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Online guide retrieived October 8, 2005
• Reference*
• Breines, Wini. Community Organization in the New Left, 1962-1968: The Great Refusal 216 pp Rutgers University Press; Reissue edition (March 1, 1989). ISBN 0813514037.
• Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left 288 pages. Vintage (January 12, 1980). ISBN 0394742281.
• Frost, Jennifer. "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing & the New Left in the 1960s 266 pp New York University Press (September, 2001). ISBN 0814726976.
• Gosse, Van. The Movements of the New Left, 1950-1975: A Brief History with Documents Bedford St. Martin's, 2004). 224 pp. Bedford/St. Martin's (October 29, 2004). ISBN 0312133979.
• Isserman, Maurice. If I had a Hammer: the Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left 259 pp University of Illinois Press; Reprint edition (June 1, 1993). ISBN 0252063384.
• McMillian, John and Buhle, Paul (eds.). The New Left Revisited 280 pp Temple University Press. (Jan 2003). ISBN 1566399769.
• Oglesby, Carl (ed.) The New Left Reader Grove Press(1969). ISBN 0887690700. Influential collection of texts by Mills, Marcuse, Fanon, Cohn-Bendit, Castro, Hall, Althusser, Kolakowski, Malcolm X, Gorz & others.
• Rubenstein, Richard E. Left Turn: Origins of the Next American Revolution. 286pp Boston: Little Brown, (1973). 286p. 1st edition.
• Publications
• Munk, Michael. The New Left: What It Is ... Where It's Going ... What Makes it Move. 22pp A National Guardian Pamphlet. New York. n.d. . Stapled softcover. Photos.
• Massimo, Teodri, ed., The New Left: A documentary History. London: Jonathan Cape (1970).