— New Leftist .
( sometimes l.c. ) a radical leftist political movement active esp. during the 1960s and 1970s, composed largely of college students and young intellectuals, whose goals included racial equality, de-escalation of the arms race, nonintervention in foreign affairs, and other major changes in the political, economic, social, and educational systems.
[ 1960; phrase appar. introduced by U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills (1916-62) ]