Left Turn

{{for|the Austrian Trotskyist political organization|Linkswende}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Left Turn | logo = | logo_size = | image_file = Left Turn (magazine) January February 2011 cover art.jpg | image_size = 200px | image_alt = | image_caption = January/February 2011 cover of ''Left Turn'' | editor = [[Walidah Imarisha]] Vasudha Desikan Tej Nagaraja Rami El-Amine Pranjal Tiwari Morrigan Phillips Max Uhlenbeck Jordan Flaherty | editor_title = Editorial collective | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | photographer = | category = | frequency = Bimonthly | circulation = | publisher = | founder = Bilal El-Amine | founded = 1999 | firstdate = {{Start date|2001|04}} | finaldate = December 2011 | company = | country = [[United States]] | based = [[New York City]] | language = English | website = {{URL|leftturn.org}} | issn = | oclc = }}

'''''Left Turn''''' was a bimonthly activist [[news magazine]] that focused on international social justice movements. Based in [[New York City]] and produced by an all volunteer editorial collective, the magazine promoted [[anti-imperialism]] and [[anti-authoritarianism]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Against the Grain |url=http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/16595|publisher=KPFA|accessdate=November 17, 2011|date=August 23, 2005}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Left Turn: Notes From The Global Intifada|url=http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/leftturn|work=AK Press|accessdate=November 17, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106094813/http://www.akpress.org/2004/items/leftturn|archive-date=November 6, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref>

''Left Turn'' had its roots in the [[Anti-capitalism|anti-capitalist]] wing of the [[Global Justice Movement]]<ref>{{cite journal|last=Dixon|first=Chris|title=Building "Another Politics": The Contemporary Anti-Authoritarian Current in the U.S. and Canada|journal=Anarchist Studies|url=http://blogs.evergreen.edu/bohmerp/files/2011/10/Dixon-Another-Politics1.pdf|access-date=2011-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501235422/http://blogs.evergreen.edu/bohmerp/files/2011/10/Dixon-Another-Politics1.pdf|archive-date=2012-05-01|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was founded in the wake of the [[World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 protest activity|anti-WTO protests]] in Seattle in 1999 by a small group of socialists.<ref>{{cite news|last=Uhlenbeck|first=Max|title=From Below and to the Left — A Brief History of Left Turn, 2001-2010|url=http://www.leftturn.org/history-left-turn-2001-2010|accessdate=November 17, 2011|work=Left Turn|date=June 1, 2010}}</ref>

The magazine's tagline, "Notes from the Global Intifada", was inspired by the then ongoing [[Second Intifada|Palestinian intifada]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Uhlenbeck|first1=Max|last2=El-Amine|first2=Rami|title=Left Turn & The Movement: 2000-2010|url=http://www.organizingupgrade.com/2010/10/left-turn-and-the-movement/|accessdate=November 17, 2011|work=Organizing Upgrade|date=October 1, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017070918/http://www.organizingupgrade.com/2010/10/left-turn-and-the-movement/|archive-date=October 17, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The magazine supported grassroots activists with the [[Palestine Solidarity Movement]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Notes from the Global Intifada|url=http://www.leftturn.org/notes-global-intifada|accessdate=November 17, 2011|newspaper=Left Turn|date=2006}}</ref> The magazine ceased print publication after the August 2011 issue,<ref>{{cite web | title=Current Issue | website=Left Turn | url=http://www.leftturn.org/current-issue | access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref> but continues to operate a website.<ref>{{cite web | author=Left Turn Editorial Collective |title=The Future of Left Turn | website=Left Turn | date=12 December 2011 | url=http://www.leftturn.org/future-left-turn | access-date=15 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=About Us|url=http://www.leftturn.org/about-us|accessdate=December 5, 2016|work=Turn Left|date=December 11, 2016}}</ref>

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==External links== *[http://www.leftturn.org/ Official website]

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