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- New_Left abstract "The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms on issues such as gay rights, abortion, gender roles, and drugs, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist approach to social justice and focused mostly on labor unionization and questions of social class. They rejected involvement with the labor movement and Marxism's historical theory of class struggle. In the United States, the "New Left" was associated with the Hippie movement and anti-war college campus protest movements including the Free Speech Movement. While formed in opposition to the "Old Left" Democratic party, groups composing the New Left gradually became central players in the Democratic coalition.".