ABSTRACT

First published in 1977. The New Left, as an organised political phenomenon, came - and went - largely in the 1960s. Was the Movement that went into precipitate decline after 1969 the same New Left that had developed a decade earlier? Nigel Young's thesis is that the core New Left, as it had evolved by the mid-1960s, had a unique identity that set

chapter |7 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|16 pages

Convergence and Breakthrough

chapter 2|27 pages

The New Left: A Core Identity

chapter 3|15 pages

A New Radicalism

chapter 5|15 pages

The Problem of Agency

chapter 6|16 pages

Black Movements in Crisis

chapter 7|14 pages

In Search of Ideology

chapter 8|19 pages

The New Left in Britain: 1956–70

chapter 9|26 pages

Vietnam and Alignment

chapter 10|16 pages

SDS in Flux

chapter 11|18 pages

Annus Mirabilis: 1968

chapter 12|31 pages

Turn Towards Violence

chapter 13|29 pages

Revolution and the New Left

chapter 14|15 pages

Provocation: Response and Repression

chapter 15|26 pages

The New Left and the Old

chapter 16|36 pages

A Crisis of Identity

chapter 17|24 pages

Picking up the Threads