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{{Infobox newspaper
|name = Next Left Notes
|image = Next Left Notes 2008 07 28.jpg
|image_size = 220px
|type = web/print journal
|format = web, magazine
|foundation = 2004
|owners =
|political = [[New Left]]
|headquarters = [[New York City]]
|editor = Thomas Good / NLN Editorial Collective
|website = {{URL|nextleftnotes.net}}
}}
'''''Next Left Notes''''' ('''''NLN''''') is an independent radical publication and [[weblog]] connected to the 2006 re-incarnation of [[Students for a Democratic Society (2006 organization)|Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS). ''NLN'' began producing print versions in March 2008 - to mark its 4th anniversary.

==Founding and new SDS==
''Next Left Notes'' was founded in March, 2004, by Thomas Good, its current editor.<ref>[http://www.iww.org/en/node/1901 Students for a Democratic Society (re)Form National Organization], [[Industrial Workers of the World]], 2006-01-16.</ref><ref>Harvey Pekar, Paul Buhle, Gary Dumm. ''Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History''. Hill and Wang (2008) {{ISBN|0-8090-9539-4}}</ref>
Good and other ''NLN'' contributors were one source of the refoundation statement of SDS in January 2006.<ref name="New National SDS">{{cite press release
|publisher=Students for a Democratic Society
|date=January 16, 2006
|url=http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/michigan/pdfs/Students%20for%20a%20Democratic%20Society%20-%20Original%20Press%20Release.pdf
|title=Students for a Democratic Society Chapters form National Organization
|accessdate=2007-04-14
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704023258/http://www.studentsforademocraticsociety.org/michigan/pdfs/Students%20for%20a%20Democratic%20Society%20-%20Original%20Press%20Release.pdf
|archive-date=July 4, 2007
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref>GARY SHAPIRO. [http://www.nysun.com/arts/radicals-to-return-to-chicago-after-37-years/36594/ Radicals To Return To Chicago After 37 Years], The [[New York Sun]], 24 July 2006.</ref>

''Next Left Notes'' differs from ''[[New Left Notes]]'', the publication of SDS in the 1960s from which it takes its name, in that it is not officially connected with SDS - although Good and other members of the ''NLN'' "collective" are members of [[Movement for a Democratic Society]] (MDS), the non-student entity that emerged from SDS at the National Convention in Chicago, Illinois in 2006.<ref>[http://www.afn.org/~iguana/archives/2006_09/20060901.html Jenny Brown. SDS Meets in Chicago]. The Gainesville Iguana, September 2006.</ref>

Contributors have included [[Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization)|1960s SDS]] veterans
([[Bernardine Dohrn]], [[Bill Ayers]], [[Paul Buhle]],<ref>[http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/buhle150106.html SDS: Why Now (Again)? by Paul Buhle.] [[Monthly Review]], 15 January 2006</ref> [[Mark Rudd]]) and
young people who are involved in the new SDS ([[Allison Van Doren]], [[Brendan Dunn]], Brian Kelly,<ref>Kelly, B. [http://antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/current/kelly_ageism.html "'Youthism' and Ageism in Our Movement?"] ''Next Left Notes'' (2006).</ref> [[Pat Korte]]) and members of pacifist ([[Frida Berrigan]], [[David McReynolds]]) and labor activist groups ([[Penelope Rosemont|Penny Rosemont]] of [[Charles H. Kerr]], various members of the [[Industrial Workers of the World]]<ref>[http://nymag.com/daily/food/2008/07/brandworkers_turn_on_city_bake.html Brandworkers Turns on City Bakery, Calls Wild Edibles Boss Racist]. [[New York Magazine]], 18 July 2008.</ref>).

==Publication and ideology==
According to ''Next Left Notes'',<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20081009121120/http://nextleftnotes.org/NLN/?page_id=2 Next Left Notes: About]}}, Retrieved 2008-07-28.</ref> their role in the movement is to cover the [[New Left]] actions, conferences and other aspects of the struggle. They provide news articles on left wing events in the United States,<ref>[http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4547&Itemid=223 Iraq Moratorium, February 15, 2008] [[The World Can't Wait]]</ref> as well as commentary and photographic galleries.

Like the 1960s magazine ''New Left Notes'', the publication's contributors and readers are largely New Left and [[anti-authoritarian]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2011}} The articles written for ''NLN'' support [[participatory democracy]] and [[direct action]]. The original ''New Left Notes'' motto, "Let the People Decide", appears on the ''NLN'' masthead.<ref>Matt Meyer and Sara Steele. What if They Gave an Empire and Nobody Came? Peace & Change
Volume 32 Issue 1 (January 2007), Pages 89 - 98. "Good, a founder and editor of the web-based Next Left Notes (a reference to the original SDS ''New Left Notes''), has been the key publicist of the new SDS."</ref>

===Criticism===
Some writers outside the new SDS have criticized Good and ''NLN'' as "militant", "sectarian" and too close to former members of the [[Weather Underground]].<ref>[[Jesse Lemisch]], [http://hnn.us/articles/29922.html Sectarian Rage in the New SDS], [[History News Network]], 18 August 2006.<br />Christopher Phelps. [http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/phelps The New SDS], [[The Nation]], 2 April 2007.</ref>

===Format===
''NLN'' has published as both a web based news site and, since March 2008, as a print publication.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110823065559/http://nextleftnotes.org/NLN/?p=404 Vol 1, no. 1, March 2008]}}</ref> Its content, along with an increasing amount of video and photographic work, is largely released under the [[GNU General Public License]].<ref>[http://antiauthoritarian.net/NLN/?p=174 NLN license statement], retrieved 2008-07-28.</ref>

==See also==
*[[Port Militarization Resistance]]
*[[March 17, 2007 anti-war protest]]
*[[Brian Flanagan]]
*[[Jeff Jones (activist)]]

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* {{Official website}}
* [http://www.newsds.org/wiki/index.php?title=Next_Left_Notes newsds.org: Next Left Notes].

[[Category:Magazines established in 2004]]
[[Category:Alternative magazines]]
[[Category:Political magazines published in the United States]]
[[Category:New Left]]
[[Category:Magazines published in New York City]]

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