Tom Heyden and the Destiny of the "New Left" in the Usa: From Conflict to Transformation

Tom Hayden (11.12.1939–23.10.2016) was a leader of the “New Left” organization “Students for a Democratic Society” (SDS) and an author of their main document the Port-Huron Statement (1962), an anti-war activist, a defendant in the case of “Chicago Seven” in 1968, a lawmaker with 18 years of experience and an initiator of major social, interracial and economic programs, a university professor and an author of more than 20 books of articles, a member of the Advisory Council of the “Progressive Democrats of America”, belonging to the left wing of the US Democratic Party. Hayden began journalistic activities early. Among the “New Left” editions of the 1960s – 1970s, which he collaborated with, were Radical America, New Left Notes, New Weekly, and Research Left. In the 1990s - 2000s. Hayden began publishing in influential editions such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, Denver Post, Huffington Post, Harvard International Review, Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2009, Hayden became a member of the editorial board and columnist for the magazine the Nation.