During the 1920s, it was tied to the Estonian Language Federation of the United Communist Party of America.
Already during the 1930s, the newspaper had very few subscribers and most of the circulation was distributed free of charge.
During the World War II events, the newspaper supported the Soviet line, also approving of the forceful integration of Estonia into the USSR.
The paper depicted the life in Estonian from the Soviet point of view and treated Marxism and the issues of the US workers of Estonian descent.
[1] Uus Ilm stopped being published in June 1989[2] due to lack of purchasers.