" Left-wing ", it contends, has simply become an umbrella designation for protest groups and organisations demanding amendments and reforms to capitalism.

Dr Lewis was a leading opponent of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, and other Left-wing organisations, throughout the 1980s.

The new Democratic Coalition party is to be a “ Western, Left-wing ” formation with ten lawmakers, Gyurcsány announced on the first anniversary that its forerunner, the Democratic Coalition Platform, was set up.

Left-wing critics assert that National-Anarchism represents what many anti-fascists see as the potential new face of fascism.

In the emerging Soviet state there appeared Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks which were a series of rebellions and uprisings against the Bolsheviks led or supported by left wing groups including Socialist Revolutionaries, Left Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, and anarchists.

Among the public figures in this movement associated with Left-wing nationalism were Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak Tabenkin, Icchak Cukierman, Zivia Lubetkin, Eliezer Livneh, Moshe Shamir, Zev Vilnay, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Isser Harel, Dan Tolkovsky, and Avraham Yoffe.

Left-wing workers ' and students ' movements were formed, countered on the right by Islamist and militant nationalist groups.

At the time ( 1919 – 1923 ), these vital infrastructure facilities were under threat from sabotage and attack during a period bordering on civil war, which was caused by the collapse of German economy following the end of World War I and exacerbated by a spate of politically motivated wildcat strikes, usually by Left-wing elements.

Left-wing revivalists like Charles Seeger and Lawrence Gellert interpreted folk music as a grass-roots cultural form that came from the people and was written for the people such that it could be used in ' people's ' struggles for social and political rights.

Left-wing journalists outed Adolf Hitler's closest ally Ernst Röhm in the early 1930s, causing Brand to write, " when someone — as teacher, priest, representative, or statesman — would like to set in the most damaging way the intimate love contacts of others under degrading control — in that moment his own love-life also ceases to be a private matter and forfeits every claim to remain protected hence-forward from public scrutiny and suspicious oversight.

Durgnat's socio-political approach-strongly supportive of the working classes and, almost as a direct result of this, American popular culture, and dismissive of Left-wing intellectuals who he accused of actually being petit-bourgeois conservatives in disguise, and dismissive of overt politicisation of film criticism, refusing to bring his own Left-wing views overtly into his writings on film-can best be described as " radical populist ".

Murray Rothbard criticized what amounted to the cultural aspect of left-libertarianism of the Carson-Long school ( Left-wing market anarchism ), challenging the tendency of proponents of libertarianism to appeal to “‘ free spirits ,’ to people who don't want to push other people around, and who don't want to be pushed around themselves ” in contrast to “ the bulk of Americans ,” who “ might well be tight-assed conformists, who want to stamp out drugs in their vicinity, kick out people with strange dress habits, etc .”

Left-wing movements therefore have often taken up anti-imperialist positions.

The Socialist Party, the Green Party and Labour have a solid two-thirds majority in City Council, making Nijmegen the only major city in the Netherlands with a solely Left-wing government.

Left-wing and liberal groups have traditionally been more open to a united Ireland.

Left-wing critics have represented Figes as a conservative because of his negative assessment of Lenin and his focus on the individual and ' the random succession of chance events ' rather than on the collective actions of the masses.

Despite this, locally the region has been governed by a Left-wing coalition led by the Democratic Party and the Left Ecology Freedom party since 2005.

This term has since been re-translated back into Chinese as " Left-wing Buddhism " ( 左翼佛教 ) to denote the liberal emphasis held by this type of Buddhism.

Left-wing nationalism can also refer to any nationalism which emphasises a working-class populist agenda which seeks to overcome perceived exploitation or oppression by other nations.

Left-wing critics of post-modernism assert that cultural studies inflates the importance of culture by denying the existence of an independent reality.

Left-wing journalists opposed to Kaiser Wilhelm II's policies outed a number of prominent members of his cabinet and inner circle — and by implication the Kaiser — beginning with Maximilian Harden's indictment of the aristocratic diplomat Prince Eulenburg.

In official publications the movement claims that " the partition between Right-wing and Left-wing is anachronistic "; it holds " dovish " political opinions and believes in the solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by establishing an independent and demilitarized Palestinian state ( see two-state solution ).

Left-wing Peronism was represented by many organizations, from the Montoneros and the Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas to the Peronist Youth, the Frente Revolucionario Peronista and the Revolutionary Peronist Youth, passing by Peronismo en Lucha or Peronismo de Base, which supported a Marxist viewpoint.

Left-wing members of the party, led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, strongly opposed the war, and the SPD soon suffered a split, with the leftists forming the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany ( USPD ) and the more radical Spartacist League.

Left-wing and right-wing anti-democratic parties in the Reichstag ( the German parliament ) obstructed parliamentary work, while different cabinets resorted to government by the special emergency powers of the Weimar constitution.

No other candidates stood, but left-wing candidates ran for congressional delegates and received 14. 6 % of party members votes won by the DS Left-wing – Returning to win, 4. 0 % by the DS Left-wing for Socialism and 2. 4 % by the Ecologist Left.

Before the 2007 convention, the left-wing opposition was led by the DS Left-wing-Returning to win ( Sinistra DS-Per tornare a vincere ), a left-wing democratic socialist tendency, with other smaller groups including DS Left-wing for Socialism ( Sinistra DS per il Socialismo ), left-wing democratic socialists and the Ecologist Left ( Sinistra Ecologista ), left-wing environmentalists.

Image: Sweden. 2002. coalition. purple. map. svg | Votes by municipality as a scale from red / Left-wing bloc to blue / Centre-right bloc.

* A Left-wing uprisings against the Bolsheviks, was sometimes referred to as the Third Russian Revolution ( after February and October ) by its supporters.

During the Second Cartel des gauches ( Left-wing Coalition ), this party published the Cahiers bleus ( 1928 – 1932 ), which hosted essays by widely different personalities, including Marcel Déat ( a future neo-socialist excluded from the French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ) and then Collaborationist ), Bertrand de Jouvenel ( co-founder of the Mont Pelerin Society, a liberal organisation that exists to this day ), Pierre Mendès France ( one of the young guards or jeunes loups of the Radical-Socialist Party, he was to become Prime Minister of the Fourth Republic ), and Edouard Berth.

This radical Right fairy tale, which is now an accepted folk myth in many groups in America, pictured the recent history of the United States, in regard to domestic reform and in foreign affairs, as a well-organized plot by extreme Left-wing elements ....

For European Socialism, joint-group of members of DS Left-wing – Returning to win, DS Left-wing for Socialism, some affiliates to the Ecologist Left and most Labourites – Liberal Socialists scored 15. 0 %; this motion was instead opposed to the Democratic Party.

On its date of publication ( May 1996 ), Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as " a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense.

CounterPunch, a critic of RWB, cited Reich's involvement with the group as a source of controversy: when Reich headed the Reagan administration's Office of Public Diplomacy in the 1980s, the body partook in what its officials termed " White Propaganda " – covert dissemination of information to influence domestic opinion regarding US backing for military campaigns against Left-wing governments in Latin America.

The group stated its willingness to combat the " Red Peril " and the Cartel des Gauches ( Left-wing Coalition ), and chose to back Raymond Poincaré who came to power after the Cartel des gauches.

Left-wing community radio station 3CR has its offices in Smith Street, south of Gertrude Street.

Left-wing groups and seditionist cells believe this system is highly corrupt.

Left-wing Eurosceptic parties tend to criticize the liberal agenda of the EU, although they usually support a unification of countries ( albeit under a socialist system ) and the abolition of national borders.

Left-wing organizations, such as the Japan Socialist Party and the Japanese Communist Party, quickly reestablished themselves, as did various conservative parties.

Left-wing post-modernism opposes attempts to supply universal explanatory theories, including Marxism, deriding them as grand narratives.

Left-wing opposition to the government mounted and some miners formed a clandestine Marxist union in 1973.

The aristocracy sat on the right of the Speaker ( traditionally the seat of honor ) and the commoners sat on the Left, hence the terms Right-wing politics and Left-wing politics.

* Fatah – Largest faction, Left-wing Nationalism, Palestinian nationalist.

" Pink tide " is a term being used in contemporary 21st century political analysis in the media and elsewhere to describe the perception that Leftist ideology in general, and Left-wing politics in particular, are increasingly influential in Latin America.

The West-Pakistan's political system had consisted popular influential Left-wing sphere against elite Right-wing circles.

* July 30 – Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and a third person assassinate Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.

* Left-wing governments emerge in South American countries.

Left-wing and right-wing columns are often featured on the editorial pages.

Left-wing activists of the 1970s still party on May Day.

Left-wing papers later claimed that Spaggiari had received help from his political friends, in particular from ex-OAS militants close to the mayor of Nice, Jacques Médecin.