New Left

New Left
noun Date: 1960 a political movement originating especially among students in the 1960s, favoring confrontational tactics, often breaking with older leftist ideologies, and concerned especially with antiwar, antinuclear, feminist, and ecological issues • new leftist noun, often capitalized N&L

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