Partisan Coffee House, Soho, London. The Partisan was a radical venue of the New Left, at 7 Carlisle Street, established by historian Raphael Samuel in 1958 in the aftermath of the Suez Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Hungary. It closed in 1962. Stuart McPhail Hall (1932?2014) - cultural theorist, political activist and sociologist ? is pictured here (second from left). Hall was part of the group that founded the Partisan, which initially came together in Oxford, as editors and contributors of the Universities & Left Review magazine.