An Infantile Disorder?

First published in 1977. Nigel Young traces the New Left Movement's growth and crisis mainly in Britain and America, where it reached its greater strength, but attention is also paid to parallel developments in similar movements elsewhere.

Nigel Young, now mainly based in Yorkshire, Northern England, has been active in transnational peace activity for at least a half century. He is presently Editor-in-Chief of the 'Oxford International Encyclopedia of World Peace' (a four-volume reference work) for which he won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He is also active in the Balkans Peace Park Project, UK (B3P).

Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; Introduction; 1. Convergence and Breakthrough 2. The New Left: A Core Identity 3. A New Radicalism 4. After Reformism: The Dilemmas of Extra-Parliamentarism 5. The Problem of Agency 6. Black Movement in Crisis 7. In Search of Ideology 8. The New Left in Britain: 1956-70 9. Vietnam and Alignment 10. SDS in Flux 11. Annus Mirabilis: 1968 12. Turn Towards Violence 13. Revolution and the New Left 14. Provocation: Response and Repression 15. The new Left and the Old 16. A Crisis of Identity 17. Picking Up the Threads; Appendix; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index