New Left

The New Left was a political movement in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of educators, agitators and others who sought to implement a broad range of reforms on issues such as gay rights, abortion, gender roles, and drugs, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements.

The Society of the Spectacle
Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che
Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Haymarket Series)
Detroit: I Do Mind Dying: A Study in Urban Revolution
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
Assata: An Autobiography
The Young Lords: A Radical History
Bringing the War Home: The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies
Heavy Radicals - The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists: The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Truth and Revolution: A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986
Students of the World: Global 1968 and Decolonization in the Congo (Theory in Forms)
Black Skin, White Masks
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Still, in summing up the situation, we must not forget that the New Left expresses certain truths and truisms and provides us with not a few straws in the wind. However immature, destructive, sterile, and confused, it is a cry of anguish and protest against a mechanized, profoundly leftish age. It is, in a sense, leftism to end all leftism.
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Leftism Revisited: from de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot

The Environmental Movement’s Retreat from Advocating U.S. Population Stabilization (1970–1998): A First Draft of History by Roy Beck and Leon Kolankiewicz Having much in common with the emerging Green parties of Europe (social justice, peace, and ecology), the new “greens” of America joined with the wilderness preservationists and resource conservationists as the modern environmental movement was born in the 1960s. But the New Left greens held opposite views on population from those of most pre ...more
Roy Beck

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