"The New Flame") was a left-wing journal for political, social and cultural issues primarily aimed at intellectual audiences in the former Yugoslavia and the related diaspora.

The name of the journal is an allusion to the distinguished left-wing magazine Plamen [sh] which was published in 1919 and edited by Miroslav Krleža and August Cesarec.

In so doing it has become a factor which contributes to the re-unification of the scattered gems of the South Slavic intelligentsia around, simply put, the idea of a more humane civilisation".

The journal had an Advisory Board consisting of well-known international left-wing figures such as Noam Chomsky, philosopher Slavoj Žižek, Ken Coates MEP, John McDonnell MP, Michael Löwy 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, former Croatian Minister of Economy Ljubo Jurčić MP, former Croatian Minister of Culture Antun Vujić MP, Croatian MP Milorad Pupovac, president of the Croatian Writers' Association Velimir Visković, President of the Croatian PEN Club Nadežda Čačinovič, politician and historian Latinka Perović, Serbian sociologist and philosopher Zagorka Golubović, writers Slobodan Šnajder, Filip Erceg, Igor Štiks and Predrag Matvejević (Vice-President of the International PEN Centre), former Bosnian Minister for Multiculturalism Marko Oršolić and former Minister for Foreign Trade Dragoljub Stojanov, sociologist and politician Slavo Kukić, professor and politician Bogdan Denitch, actor Josip Pejaković, professor Ljubomir Cuculovski, the Canadian academician Darko Suvin and others.

[10] The journal was the first to publish a list of political prisoners interned on the Goli Otok labour camp in the 1950s, which provoked much interest in the mass media throughout the region.