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.

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 politics and right-wing politics are often presented as opposed, and although a particular individual or party may take a left-wing stance on one matter and a right-wing stance on another, the terms left and right are used to refer to two globally opposed political families.

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.

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.

Left-wing magazine The New Statesman reported that the US administration consequently had " concerns about Cameron among top members of the team ", according to quotes from an unnamed Democratic Party source.

Left-wing in the Swedish Church ( in Swedish: Vänstern i Svenska kyrkan ) is a nominating group of consisting of members of the Left Party that work within the Church of Sweden.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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 ....

Left-wing and labour organisations underlined that the new version were not as favourable to workers as it pretends to be, and that the " country of origin principle " would have probably been applied by the European Court of Justice, as a record of its preceding decisions led believe.

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.

She spoke fluent Dutch and was involved with various Left-wing, Feminist and Jewish dissident groups.

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.

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.

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.

After the Russian Revolution the party adopted the name Communist and with the departure of the Left-wing grouped around De Internationale, the party adopted Marxism-Leninism, the official ideology of the USSR and the Comintern.

Left-wing fascism and left fascism are terms used to describe tendencies in left-wing politics that contradict or violate the progressive ideals with which the Left is usually associated.

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

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

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.

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.

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.