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New Left
noun
Definition of NEW LEFT
: 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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1960
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