The New Leader

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The New Leader is a political magazine begun in 1924 and published in New York by the American Labor Conference on International Affairs. Its orientation is leftist but anti-communist. The Tamiment Institute was the magazine's primary supporter. The New Leader ceased print publication following the January/February 2006 issue.

Its contributors were dominant liberal thinkers and artists. The New Leader first published Joseph Brodsky and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in the United States. It first published "Letter From Birmingham City Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr.. Other contributors, who were generally paid nothing or only a modest fee, included Willy Brandt, Theodore Draper, Ralph Ellison, Hubert H. Humphrey, George F. Kennan, Murray Kempton, Hans J. Morgenthau, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Albert Murray, Ralph de Toledano, Reinhold Niebuhr, George Orwell, Bertrand Russell, Bayard Rustin, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr..

The New Leader was also the name of a weekly newspaper published by Britain's Independent Labour Party. It adopted the name New Leader in 1923; before then it had been known as The Labour Leader. Fenner Brockway was editor of The Labour Leader for several years. In 1914 the paper took a strongly anti-war line, in accordance with the ILP position.