New Politics

New Politics is an independent socialist journal. It was founded by Phyllis and Julius Jacobson in 1961. While publishing authors from a variety of leftist positions, the publication leans strongly toward a Third Camp, democratic Marxist perspective, to the left of the social democratic views in the journal Dissent and rooted in the Jacobsons' former membership in the Independent Socialist League. It is perhaps best known for having published the seminal article by Hal Draper, "The Two Souls of Socialism," in 1966. It was also the first English-language publication to publish articles by the dissident Polish socialists Jacek Kuroń and Karol Modzelewski.

New Politics has been in publication from 1961 up to the present, though not continuously. The first series ran from 1961 through 1976, after which it ceased publication for a decade. The journal was restarted in 1986 and has been in print since, publishing two issues per year. Julius Jacobson was co-editor until his death in 2003.

The current co-editors (2008) are Betty Reid Mandell and Marvin Mandell. Editorial board members include Sam Bottone, Lynn Chancer, Gertrude Ezorsky, Barry Finger, Tom Harrison, Michael Hirsch, Dan LaBotz, Joanne Landy, Stephen R. Shalom, Jason Schulman, Lois Weiner and Julia Wrigley,

Contributors have included Sidney Lens, Noam Chomsky, Stephen Eric Bronner, Herbert Hill, Tony Cliff, Howard Zinn, Martin Glaberman, Nelson Lichtenstein, Elaine Bernard, Murray Bookchin, Janet Biehl, Hal Draper, Saskia Sassen, Stanley Aronowitz, Manning Marable, Jane Slaughter, Christopher Phelps, Stephen R. Shalom, Eric Chester, Paul Buhle and Ellen Willis.

External links

• Official website

References

• Worcester, Kent. "New Politics," in The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 2d ed., ed. Mari Jo Buhle, Paul Buhle, and Dan Georgakas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998): 555-556.