New Left Review is a British bimonthly journal, established in 1960, which analyses international politics, the global economy, social theory, and cultural topics from a leftist perspective.

History

Background

As part of the emerging British "New Left" in the late 1950s, a number of journals were launched to carry commentary on matters of Marxist theory. One of these was The Reasoner, founded by historians E. P. Thompson and John Saville in July 1956. Three quarterly issues were produced. The first editor-in-chief of the merged publication was Stuart Hall. The journal was relaunched in 2000, and Perry Anderson returned as editor until 2003. was called "the most powerful description of what has gone wrong in western societies" by the Financial Timess contributor Christopher Caldwell.

In the early 2020s, the journal's editorial committee included figures such as Tariq Ali, Robin Blackburn, Mike Davis, Nancy Fraser, Benjamin Kunkel, and Julian Stallabrass, while Oliver Eagleton served on the editorial staff.

Abstracting and indexing

In 2003, New Left Review was ranked 12th by impact factor on a list of the top 20 political science journals in the world. By 2018, however, the Journal Citation Reports rated it 51st out of 176 journals in the category "Political Science", with an impact factor of 1.967. In 2023, the citation database Scopus placed New Left Review in the 69th percentile, 214th out of 706 "Political Science and International Relations" journals, with a citation score of 2.2.

References

Further reading

  • Birchall, Ian, "New Left Review: The Search for Theory", International Socialism, Issue 115, 2 July 2007
  • Blackledge, Paul (2004). Perry Anderson, Marxism and the New Left, Merlin Press.
  • Collini, Stefan. "A Life in Politics: The New Left Review at 50", The Guardian, 13 February 2010.
  • Harding, Jeremy, "On 'NLR, London Review of Books, Vol. 47, No. 3, 20 February 2025.
  • Saval, Nikil. "New Left Review, 1962–Present", n+1, 6 October 2009.
  • Thompson, Duncan (2007). Pessimism of the Intellect? A History of New Left Review, Merlin Press.
  • of Spanish Issue
  • The New Reasoner Archive of Contents, Amiel Melburn Trust Internet Archive
  • The Reasoner Archive of Contents, Amiel Melburn Trust Internet Archive
  • Universities & Left Review Archive of Contents, Amiel Melburn Trust Internet Archive
  • Text of the March 1993 resignation of the majority of the editorial committee.