New Times (politics)

New Times was an intellectual movement that emerged among leftists in Great Britain during the late 1980s. The movement was centred on the Eurocommunist faction of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and developed its theoretical framework primarily through the party's official journal, Marxism Today. New Times theorists, including Martin Jacques and Stuart Hall, argued that Western societies were undergoing a transformation from Fordism to Post-fordism, which they claimed required the left to adapt its political strategies and move away from traditional class-based approaches toward broader coalitions and identity politics.

The movement gained prominence with the launch of the "New Times" project in Marxism Today's October 1988 special issue, which asserted that mass production, big cities, and nation-states were in decline while flexibility, diversity, and decentralisation were ascendant. According to its proponents, the theoretical framework drew heavily on Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and French Regulation School economics to support a reformist rather than revolutionary approach to social change.

New Times reportedly had significant influence on British politics, particularly through its impact on Labour Party modernisation under Neil Kinnock and later Tony Blair. The movement also attracted substantial criticism, notably from A. Sivanandan, who argued that it legitimised Thatcherite values. Following the dissolution of the CPGB in 1991, many New Times adherents continued their work through Democratic Left and various New Labour think tanks.