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| Discipline | Politics |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Susan Watkins |
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| History | 1960–present |
| Publisher | New Left Review Ltd (United Kingdom) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| 1.967 (2018) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | New Left Rev. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| ISSN | 0028-6060 |
| LCCN | 63028333 |
| OCLC no. | 1605213 |
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TheNew Left Review is a British bimonthly journal, established in 1960, which analyzes international politics, the global economy, social theory, and cultural topics from a leftist perspective.
As part of the emerging British "New Left" in the late 1950s, a number of journals were launched to carry commentary on matters ofMarxist theory. One of these wasThe Reasoner, founded by historiansE. P. Thompson andJohn Saville in July 1956.[1] Three quarterly issues were produced.[1] The publication was expanded and further developed from 1957 to 1959 asThe New Reasoner, with an additional ten issues produced.[1]The New Reasoner distanced itself from theBritish Communist Party andUSSR in the wake ofNikita Khrushchev's February 1956 "Secret Speech" on theStalinist cult of personality, and the Soviet repression of theHungarian Uprising in November 1956.[1]
Another radical journal of the period was theUniversities and Left Review, a publication started in 1957 with less allegiance to the British communist tradition.[1] This journal was youth-oriented andpacifist in nature, expressing opposition to the militaristic rhetoric of theCold War, voicing strong disagreement with the 1956Suez War, and supporting the burgeoningCampaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).[1]
New Left Review was established in January 1960 whenThe New Reasoner andUniversities and Left Review merged their Boards.[2] The firsteditor-in-chief of the merged publication wasStuart Hall.[2] The earlyNew Left Review style, featuring illustrations on the cover and in the interior layout, was more irreverent and free-flowing than the publication's later issues, which tended to be more somber and academic.[1] Hall was succeeded as editor in 1962 byPerry Anderson.[2]
In 1993, nineteen of the members of the editorial committee resigned, citing a loss of control over content by the Editorial Board/Committee in favour of a Shareholders' Trust, which they argued was undemocratic. The Trust—composed ofPerry Anderson, his brotherBenedict Anderson, andRonald Fraser—said that a change was necessary for the financial sustainability ofNew Left Review.[3] The journal was relaunched in 2000, and Perry Anderson returned as editor until 2003.[2]
New Left Review closely followed thefinancial crisis of 2007–2008 as well as its aftermath and its global political repercussions. A 2011 essay byWolfgang Streeck, titled "The Crises of Democratic Capitalism",[4] was called "the most powerful description of what has gone wrong in western societies" by theFinancial Times's contributorChristopher Caldwell.[5]
In recent years, writerBenjamin Kunkel has served as a member of theNew Left Review editorial committee,[6] while Oliver Eagleton is on the editorial staff.[7]
In 2003,New Left Review was ranked 12th byimpact factor on a list of the top 20 political science journals in the world.[8] By 2018, however, theJournal Citation Reports rated it 51st out of 176 journals in the category "Political Science", with an impact factor of 1.967.[9] In 2023, the citation databaseScopus placedNew Left Review in the 69th percentile, 214th out of 706 "Political Science and International Relations" journals, with a citation score of 2.2.[10]
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