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 expressed opposition to the Suez War in 1956; it rejected the dominant 'revisionism' within the Labour Party, and developed a cultural critique of consumer capitalism. The New Reasoner was the publication of an oppositional current which left the ...
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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 expressed opposition to the Suez War in 1956; it rejected the dominant 'revisionism' within the Labour Party, and developed a cultural critique of consumer capitalism. The New Reasoner was the publication of an oppositional current which left the Communist Party after 1956 because it opposed the Soviet occupation of Hungary. Contributors to these journals included Edward Thompson, Ralph Miliband, Charles Taylor, Raphael Samuel, Stuart Hall, Lawrence Daly, John Saville and Doris Lessing.
The new journal appeared in January-February 1960 and has been published every two months since then becoming - as the Guardian put it in 1993 - the 'flagship of the Western intellectual Left'. The journal was initially edited by Stuart Hall, and pioneered an influential concern with popular culture....
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