The more leftist members of the Democrat Party became involved in the leadership of labor unions and broke off to launch the Socialist Workers ' Party ( – POS ) in 1912.

However, a national unity government was not achieved due to the leftist AKEL and centrist Democratic Party rejecting the offer, preferring to remain opposition parties.

Meantime, Arbenz allowed the Communist Party to organize and include leaders notably his adviser who were leftist.

The government was a coalition of ZZS, TP ( People's party ), and LPP ( First Party ); the coalition has only 46 out of 100 seats in Latvia's parliament, but was also supported by TSP, the leftist party of national harmony.

The presidential elections held in 1988 marked a watershed in Mexican politics, as they were the first serious threat to the party in power by an opposition candidate, Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, a defector from the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) and son of former President Lazaro Cardenas, who was nominated by a broad coalition of leftist parties.

However, low membership and voter support in Germany's western states continued to plague the party on the federal level until it formed an electoral alliance in July 2005 with the Electoral Alternative for Labor and Social Justice ( WASG ), a leftist faction of dissident Social Democrats and trade unionists, with the merged list being called the Left Party.

It endorses radical leftist policies, with respect to the traditionalist leftist politics of LSSP and Communist Party.

The latest elections took place on 17 June 2006, where leftist Smer won elections with 29. 14 % ( around 670 000 votes ) of the popular vote and formed coalition with Slota's Slovak National Party and Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia.

This " magic formula " has been repeatedly criticised: in the 1960s, for excluding leftist opposition parties ; in the 1980s, for excluding the emerging Green party ; and particularly after the 1999 election, by the People's Party, which had by then grown from being the fourth largest party on the National Council to being the largest.

The leftist parties, the most notable of which is the Republican People's Party ( CHP ), with a stable electorate, draw much of their support from big cities, coastal regions, professional middle-class, and minority groups such as Alevis.

The independents ( whose majority are the leftist pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party candidates ) won 28 seats.

There are currently two major blocs of political parties in Venezuela: the incumbent leftist bloc United Socialist Party of Venezuela ( PSUV ), its major allies Fatherland for All ( PPT ) and the Communist Party of Venezuela ( PCV ), and the opposition bloc led by A New Era ( UNT ) together with its allied parties Project Venezuela, Justice First, Movement for Socialism ( Venezuela ) and others.

Due partly to his own politics ( Barak was from the leftist Labor Party, whereas Netanyahu was from the rightist Likud Party ) and partly due to insistence for compromise by President Clinton, Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state in 73 % of the West Bank and all of the Gaza Strip.

In the early 2000s, the leftist Green Party won the largest number of votes to nearly carry a majority in regional and local representation.

* 1978 – The leftist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) seizes power during the Saur Revolution.

The PFLP has therefore formed alliances with other leftist groups formed within the Palestinian Authority, including the Palestinian People's Party, the Popular Resistance Committees of Gaza.

He was a person of leftist ideas who nationalized different industries and provided many social institutions which are dear to the Mexican people and had the party renamed to Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PRM ).

In the second stage of the civil war in December 1944 ( The Dekimvriana ), the British helped prevent the seizure of Athens by the leftist National Liberation Front ( EAM ), controlled effectively by the Greek Communist Party ( KKE ).

Black Panther Party founder Huey P. Newton prompted John Sinclair to found the White Panthers, a militant leftist organization of white people working to assist the Black Panthers.

Suharto's " New Order ", which had effectively eliminated Indonesia's Communist Party PKI in 1965, was alarmed by what it saw as the increasingly left-leaning Fretilin, and by the prospect of a small independent leftist state in the midst of the archipelago inspriring separatism in parts of the sourrounding archipelago.

In Scotland, Connolly's thinking was hugely influential for socialists such as John Maclean, who would similarly combine his leftist thinking with nationalist ideas when he formed his Scottish Workers Republican Party.

He also became involved in a " liberal group ... with a leftist slant ", along with Ronald Reagan.

Cariocas, or Rio de Janeiro natives, are commonly stereotyped as more politically leftist and socially liberal than paulistas, or São Paulo natives, and according to most recent IBGE data the 2nd least Catholic ( 49, 83 %) and most irreligious ( 15, 95 %) people in the country are those from Rio de Janeiro state, soon after those from Roraima ( 46, 78 % and 19, 39 %), respectively — also the popularity of Spiritism ( 3, 37 %) and Afro-Brazilian religions ( 1, 61 %) is the nation's biggest there, and excluding the capital, the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area is the least Catholic and the most Irreligious.

In 1841 he went to Zurich, where he became acquainted with political émigrés ( like Georg Herwegh, Julius Fröbel, and August Follen ), most of whom were members of the democratic or liberal leftist movements of the early 19th century.

This group rejects what they see as left-wing appeasement of Palestinian terrorism by leftist groups ; they reach out to moderate liberal and centrist Israelis who want to advance the peace process ; they reach out to Palestinian moderates who reject terrorism and suicide-bombings ; they work to cultivate a moderate political leadership on both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and are trying to pressure both the Israeli government and Palestinian Authority into reaching a just peace.

The combination of President Árbenz Guzmán ’ s political toleration of the Guatemalan Party of Labour ( PGT ) and other leftist politicians, prompted the CIA to prepare the contingency plan Operation PBFORTUNE in 1951, for overthrowing his liberal government, when the CIA could definitively determine that he and his regime were a Communist threat to the Western Hemisphere.

As Dollinger ( 2002 ) has found, for the last century the most secular Jews have tended toward the most liberal or even leftist political views, while more religious Jews are politically more conservative.

A tension existed especially for leftist Jews, between their liberal ideology and Zionist backing in the midst of this conflict.

While these tactics may have helped to more than double party support in the 2002 elections ( to 13. 3 %), they have also provoked accusations of betraying liberal ideology from within leftist factions of the party, and led to criticism from the strong liberal press in Sweden.

Since 1977, it has officially been politically neutral, though it has kept its position as a liberal newspaper, also incorporating some radical ( leftist ) stands in issues like the language struggle, church policies, feminism, intimate relationship, criminal care etc.

This was the version published by Schwäbisches Tagblatt ( a paper widely regarded as liberal to leftist and respected for its journalistic quality ), which later stated that Däubler-Gmelin herself had confirmed the wording of the report, as well as several present at the meeting.

The New York Evening Post would later morph into a tabloid ; the New York Post was a left-leaning afternoon tabloid under owner Dorothy Schiff from 1939 to 1976 and, since then, has been a conservative tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, while The Nation became known for its markedly liberal ( and sometimes leftist ) politics.

Wisely or unwisely, I have not taken my scepticism to be a reason for any active hostility to the Nouvelle Droite people, some of whom I count as friends ... Time permitting, I accept invitations from that side, so that I spoke at their conference in Antwerp in 2000, if only as a stand-in for an announced speaker who had cancelled at the last minute for health reasons ( Pim Fortuyn, no less, the Dutch liberal sociology professor who criticized Islam, subsequently went into politics, and ended up murdered by a leftist ).

With the rise of Nazism, many of Germany's philosophers, especially those of Jewish descent or leftist or liberal political sympathies ( such as many in the Vienna Circle and the Frankfurt School ), fled to the English-speaking world.

The new commander of the uprising, Tomasz Wawrzecki, was not able to control the spreading internal struggles for power and ultimately became only the commander of weakened military forces, while the political power was held by General Józef Zajączek, who in turn had to struggle with both the leftist liberal Polish Jacobins and the rightist and monarchical nobility.

It marked his transition from revolutionary leftist politics to liberal Left-center position, and reflected his ties to the social-science-oriented Annales School.

Although the Kadets had moderated their position in the Second Duma, in May 1907 they refused to vote for a resolution denouncing revolutionary violence, which gave the government of Pyotr Stolypin a pretext to dissolve the Second Duma on June 3, 1907 and change the electoral law to drastically limit the representation of leftist and liberal parties.

Reeves ' opinions generally have a liberal bent — he opposed the war to topple Saddam Hussein as " stupid and unnecessary " ( column, March 19, 2003 )— but shuns " extreme " leftist positions.

The Progressive Party was a liberal party ( deemed " leftist " in the peculiar terminology of the apartheid-era ) in South Africa that opposed the ruling National Party's policies of apartheid, and championed the Rule of Law.

The self described " politically pluralistic " human rights organization is composed of Israeli women to the exclusion of men, with a " bias towards mature, professional women " who tend to have a " liberal or leftist background ".

For the American version of this character, the Trotskyist angle was drastically softened ; Michael Stivic is a social liberal and a leftist, but not an adherent of any form of communism.

Furthermore, in 2004 the Green Left started profiling itself as a ' leftist liberal ' party, thus possibly breaking with its socialist roots.

During the 1920s and 1930s, the Kokuryūkai evolved into more of a mainstream political organization, and publicly attacked liberal and leftist thought.

The word " liberal " in liberal Christianity does not necessarily refer to a leftist political agenda but rather to insights developed during the Enlightenment.