Editing New Left Review (section)

== 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.<ref name=Birchall>{{cite web |url=http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/birchall/1980/xx/nlr.html |author=Ian Birchall|title=The autonomy of theory—A short history of ''New Left Review'' (Autumn 1980) |publisher=Marxists.org |access-date=29 June 2014}}</ref> Three quarterly issues were produced.<ref name=Birchall /> The publication was expanded and further developed from 1957 to 1959 as ''[[The New Reasoner]]'', with an additional ten issues produced.<ref name=Birchall /> ''The New Reasoner'' distanced itself from the [[Communist Party of Great Britain|British Communist Party]] and [[USSR]] in the wake of [[Nikita Khrushchev]]'s February 1956 "[[Secret Speech]]" on the [[Joseph Stalin's cult of personality|Stalinist cult of personality]], and the Soviet repression of the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956|Hungarian Uprising]] in November 1956.<ref name=Birchall />

Another radical journal of the period was the ''[[Universities and Left Review]]'', a publication started in 1957 with less allegiance to the British communist tradition.<ref name=Birchall /> This journal was youth-oriented and [[pacifism|pacifist]] in nature, expressing opposition to the militaristic rhetoric of the [[Cold War]], voicing strong disagreement with the 1956 [[Suez War]], and supporting the burgeoning [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] (CND).<ref name=Birchall />

=== Establishment ===
''New Left Review'' was established in January 1960 when ''The New Reasoner'' and ''Universities and Left Review'' merged their Boards.<ref name=history>{{cite web |title=A Brief History Of New Left Review 1960–2010 |url=https://newleftreview.org/pages/history |website=New Left Review |access-date=15 December 2023}}</ref> The first [[editor-in-chief]] of the merged publication was [[Stuart Hall (cultural theorist)|Stuart Hall]].<ref name=history /> The early ''New 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 sombre and academic.<ref name=Birchall /> Hall was succeeded as editor in 1962 by [[Perry Anderson]].<ref name=history />

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 of [[Perry Anderson]], his brother [[Benedict Anderson]], and [[Ronald Fraser (historian)|Ronald Fraser]]—said that a change was necessary for the financial sustainability of ''New Left Review''.<ref>{{cite web |website=www.wengewang.org |url=http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=17413 |title=Resignations from the Editorial Board of New Left Review(1993)&#124;万象视野 - 中国文革研究网 |access-date=11 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223221743/http://www.wengewang.org/read.php?tid=17413 |archive-date=23 February 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The journal was relaunched in 2000, and Perry Anderson returned as editor until 2003.<ref name=history />

===Since 2008===
''New Left Review'' closely followed the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]] as well as its aftermath and its global political repercussions. A 2011 essay by [[Wolfgang Streeck]], titled "The Crises of Democratic Capitalism",<ref>{{cite journal |title=The Crises of Democratic Capitalism |last=Streeck |first=Wolfgang |author-link=Wolfgang Streeck |date=September-October 2011 |journal=New Left Review |issue=71 |url=https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii71/articles/wolfgang-streeck-the-crises-of-democratic-capitalism}}</ref> was called "the most powerful description of what has gone wrong in western societies" by the ''[[Financial Times]]''{{'}}s contributor [[Christopher Caldwell (journalist)|Christopher Caldwell]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Christopher|last=Caldwell|url=https://www.ft.com/content/1a505772-1114-11e1-a95c-00144feabdc0#axzz1e6K3NCbC |title=The protests failed but capitalism is still in the dock|newspaper=[[The Financial Times]]|date=19 November 2011}}</ref>

In recent years, writer [[Benjamin Kunkel]] has served as a member of the ''New Left Review'' editorial committee,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theartistsinstitute.org/artists/sept-dec-2017/benjamin-kunkel/ |title=Benjamin Kunkel |publisher=The Artists Institute |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230321195454/http://theartistsinstitute.org/artists/sept-dec-2017/benjamin-kunkel/ |date= |archive-date=21 March 2023}}</ref> while Oliver Eagleton is on the editorial staff.<ref name="Eagleton 2024">{{cite web | title=Oliver Eagleton profile | website=Substack | date=30 January 2024 | url=https://substack.com/@olivereagleton | access-date=17 May 2024}}</ref>