Novi Plamen

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Novi Plamen
Cover of issue 7, January/February 2008
Editors-in-Chief	Filip Erceg Mladen Jakopović Goran Marković
Categories	Political magazine
Frequency	Bi-Monthly
First issue	March 2007
Company	Demokratska misao
Country	Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language	Croatian, Serbian
Website	www.noviplamen.org
ISSN	1846-386X

Novi Plamen (English: The New Flame) is a left-wing democratic socialist magazine aimed at audiences on the territory of former Yugoslavia. It is published by the Demokratska misao (English: Democratic Thought) publishing company, and its editors-in-chief are Filip Erceg, Mladen Jakopović (pseudonym Dan Jakopovich) and Professor Goran Marković.

The magazine has an Advisory Board consisting of well-known international left-wing figures such as Noam Chomsky, Ken Coates, David Graeber, Michael Albert, John McDonnell MP, Catherine Samary and Jean Ziegler, as well as leading intellectuals and public figures from South East Europe, including the Deputy Prime Minister of the Croatian government Slobodan Uzelac, Croatian MP Milorad Pupovac, president of the Croatian Writers' Association Velimir Visković, writers Slobodan Šnajder and Predrag Matvejević, Bosnian ex-ministers Marko Oršolić and Dragoljub Stojanov, professor and politician Bogdan Denitch, actor Josip Pejaković , philosopher Miodrag Živanović and others. Contributors to the magazine have also included Igor Mandić, Todor Kuljić, don Ivan Grubišić, Drago Pilsel, illustrator Branko Ilić, Srećko Pulig, Rastko Močnik, Sonja Lokar and Inoslav Bešker. ^[1]

Novi Plamen and the Demokratska misao publishing company co-organized an international scientific conference titled Participation, Self-management, Democracy held in Zagreb in November 2007, along with the International Left Forum of the Swedish Left Party.

The name Novi Plamen (The New Flame) is an allusion to the distinguished magazine Plamen that was published in 1919 and edited by Miroslav Krleža and August Cesarec.