ABSTRACT
Many projects which had very strong relationships with the New Left (NL) continued and even flourished. One undoubted and lasting result of the NL, as April Carter points out, was that direct - even illegal action had become 'normal' by the 1970s. The neglected Utopian aspect of the Movement in its re-development in the 1970s represents yet another confirmation of the thesis that the NL represents continuity with the traditions of libertarian Socialism, and Anarchist thought. The NL, because of such shifts, and others they discerned in the counter-culture, was judged to be becoming a less overtly political movement. The women's movement survived the NL organizationally because a radical consciousness itself had highlighted rather than solved the problems of maleness - the Gay Liberation movements were inevitable by-products of the same crisis. The shifts in the movement of the 1970s were also accelerated by the development of a new sociological and philosophical appraisal of post-industrial society.
