The current mayor of Milan is Giuliano Pisapia, expression of a progressive alliance composed by the Democratic Party of Italy, Left Ecology Freedom, the Greens and the Communist Refoundation Party.

* The Italian The Left-The Rainbow: a short-lived political alliance, formed in December 2007 and dissolved in May 2008, comprising the Federation of the Greens, the Communist Refoundation Party, Party of Italian Communists and the Democratic Left.

However, by November 2009, both the Greens and Socialists had abandoned the alliance.

* In Italy, The Olive Tree and The Union coalitions comprised the Federation of the Greens along with a heterogenous mix of social-democratic, socialist, centrist and other parties in a broad centre-left alliance.

Some Greens, such as those in Hawaii, find more effective alliances with more conservative groups ( Blue-Green alliance ) or indigenous peoples-who seek to prevent disruption of traditional ways of life or to save ecological resources they depend on.

Ralph Nader, the 2000 presidential nominee of the US Greens, campaigned with ultra-conservative Pat Buchanan on joint issues such as farm policy and bans on corporate funding of election campaigns, although this " alliance " between Nader and Buchanan was very specifically limited to the purpose of showing that there was broad support for certain specific issues, across the political spectrum.

As those nine MEPs did not entitle the Greens to form a parliamentary group on their own, they concluded an alliance with MEPs from Italy, Denmark, and regionalists from Flanders and Ireland to form the GRAEL ( Green Alternative European Link ) group, also known as the Rainbow group.

In the letter Garrett urged voters not to vote for the Greens, claiming they were in alliance with the conservative Liberal party.

They also took part in the Nuclear Disarmament Party project during the 1980s, as well as a number of other left regroupment projects, and were part of the political and activist alliance that led to the formation of the Australian Greens.

One part of the Brandenburg state alliance advocated against a unification with the Greens, including Matthias Platzeck, Günter Nooke, Ute Platzeck, Peter Schüler, Manfred Kruczek and Gerd Gebhardt.

After the 2005 results, Peter Cranie, the Greens ' election co-ordinator called for further discussion about how to further build the left of Labour vote, but did not advocate forming a Green-Respect alliance.

Obviously one deputy of the alliance of SPD, Grüne ( Greens ) and SSW abstained.

The results were a triumph for the parties of the left, led by the French Socialist Party ( PS ) in alliance with minor parties including the French Communist Party ( PCF ), the Left Radical Party ( PRG ) and The Greens ( Les Verts ).

For the 2001 general election the party formed an unusual alliance with the Federation of the Greens ( the so-called Sunflower, that was disbanded soon after the election, due to political divergences and ultimately to the disappointing result they had together: 2. 2 % of the vote, while the combined result of the two parties in 1999 was 4. 0 %.

Even if those who proposed an alliance with the Democratic Party ( notably Boato, leader of the Greens in Trentino ) were defeated, the party seemed to be headed to cut its ties with the far left.

Di Pietro, after he was refused entry the PD, and before several clashes with Clemente Mastella, even proposed an electoral list between its party, the UDEUR Populars and the Union of Christian and Centre Democrats, ruling out any future alliance with the far left ( Federation of the Greens, Party of Italian Communists and Communist Refoundation Party ).

In 2009, Harper and Harvie vividly demonstrated the Greens were not in an alliance with the SNP when they voted to reject an SNP government budget.

She oversaw a loose alliance between the Greens and Liberals after the 1996 general election, allowing the Liberals to govern in a minority until 1998 when the major parties voted to restructure the House of Assembly ( from 35 to 25 seats ), a move the Greens claimed was deliberately aimed at removing their influence in parliament.

The party, in alliance with The Greens obtained about 14 % of the vote in the French regional elections, 1992 ; but the 1993 legislative election was disappointing for the Green-GE alliance, as it failed to win any seats and won only 7 % ( other ecologist parties brought the score up to 11 %), when polls had given them up to 16 %.

Members of it take part as independents in the electoral alliance Unitarian Democratic Coalition, along with the Portuguese Communist Party and the Ecologist Party " The Greens ".

An alliance was struck between the Reds and Greens.

In 1927, after a large-scale purge of Communists from the Kuomintang in Shanghai that ended their alliance during the Northern Expedition, Mao conducted the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Changsha as commander-in-chief.

The Communists ' two allied parties broke their long-standing alliance, forcing Jaruzelski to appoint Solidarity's Tadeusz Mazowiecki as the country's first non-Communist prime minister since 1948.

Hostilities ceased while the Nationalists and Chinese Communists formed a nominal alliance during the Second Sino-Japanese War from 1937 until 1945.

His party, which formed a fragile alliance with the Communists, split into two factions after his death.

At the direction of the Comintern, Chen and the Chinese Communists formed an alliance with Sun Yat-sen and the Kuomintang ( Nationalist Party ) in 1922.

Although there were occasional electoral pacts between the Swatantra Party and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam ( DMK ), Rajaji remained non-committal on a formal tie-up with the DMK due to its existing alliance with Communists whom he dreaded.

Mitterrand felt that the left could not win without the alliance between the Socialists and the Communists.

In February 1968 the French Communists and French Socialists formed an electoral alliance.

A member of the Presidium of the Executive Committee of the Comintern from 1922 on, and from 1923 on Secretary of the French Federation of Young Communists, later elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, he came to advocate an alliance between the Communists and Social Democrats.

Mao then made an alliance with the local bandit chieftains Wang Zuo and Yuan Wencai, who had previously had little association with the Communists.

His refusal to send arms to Spain strained his alliance with Communists, who followed Soviet policy, and urged all-out support for the Spanish Republic.

He advocated the alliance between the center-left and the center-right parties in order to support the Fourth Republic against the Gaullists and the Communists.

Leon Trotsky, now exiled from Stalin's USSR, argued that the first policy was disastrous because it prevented unity against the far right, and that the second was disastrous because the terms of the struggle would be dictated by mainstream liberal parties, and that Communists would have to subordinate their politics within the alliance.

The Communists ' longtime satellite parties, the United People's Party and Democratic Party, broke their alliance with the Communists and threw their support to Solidarity.

After concluding his alliance with the Communists he allowed agents under Zhou Enlai to establish a secret headquarters in Taiyuan.

It comprises an alliance of Party of the Catalonian Communists, PSUC viu, POR, PRT-IR, PASOC, CEA and CLI.

Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, Lloyd Brown, Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Paul Robeson, Frank Marshall Davis, Gwendolyn Brooks, and many more were one-time members or supporters of the Party, and the Communists also had a close alliance with Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Despite the Naderi's alliance with the Communists, they also maintained positive relations with the Mujahideen as well, permitting them to move through the area provided they refrained from attacks.

In 1924 Zhang attended the First National Congress of the Kuomintang ( KMT ) during the policy of alliance between the Communists and the Kuomintang and was elected as Substitute Commissioner of Central Executive Committee.

In 1934, following the Comintern directive, he helped form the Popular Front, an alliance between Communists, Socialists, and radical Socialists.

He later became the Chinese Ambassador to the United States and focused in maintaining the alliance between the Republic of China and the United States as the Kuomintang began losing to the Chinese Communists and had to retreat to Taiwan.