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.

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.

Young Marxist intellectuals, seeing the failure of their political organizations, began to develop a more democratic approach to politics, opposed to what they saw as the centralised and authoritarian politics of the pre-war leftist parties.

Opponents, usually lawyers and leftist political parties, argued that plea bargaining would greatly infringe on the rights of defense, the long-standing constitutional right of presumption of innocence, the rights of suspects in police custody, and the right to a fair trial.

Lipponen formed a cabinet of five parties including both rightist and leftist parties.

Since 1986, thousands of members of the UP and other leftist parties were murdered ( estimates range from 4, 000 to 6, 000 ).

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.

During this period, the Shining Path assassinated specific individuals, notably leaders of other leftist groups, local political parties, labor unions, and peasant organizations, some of whom were anti-Shining Path Marxists.

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 pro-war Provisional Government was opposed by self-proclaimed Petrograd Soviet of Workers ' and Soldiers ' Deputies, dominated by leftist parties.

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.

However, the UK's various green parties are usually considered to be leftist greens, and coalitions with the Conservatives such as on Leeds City Council have proved unpopular with the parties membership and voters.

Green parties are often formed in a given jurisdiction by a coalition of scientific ecologists, community environmentalists, and local ( or national ) leftist groups or groups concerned with peace or citizens rights.

He and the Alignment finally left the government in 1990, after " the dirty trick " – a failed bid to form a narrow government based on a coalition of the Alignment, small leftist factions and ultra-orthodox parties.

Bahro and his supporters were attacked by the East German state security organization Stasi, headed by Erich Mielke, for his writings, which had laid the theoretical foundation of a leftist opposition to the ruling SED party and its dependent allies, and which promoted new and changed parties.

The great losers were the coalition parties of the ruling " purple coalition " ( PvdA, labour party ; VVD, liberals ; D ' 66, leftist liberals ).

As in the rest of Spain, the Franco era ( 1939 – 1975 ) in Catalonia saw the annulment of democratic liberties, the prohibition and persecution of parties, the rise of thoroughgoing censorship, and the banning of all leftist institutions.

Jospin had also been weakened due to the competition between an exceptional number of leftist parties.

Maria José's internal and international relationships ( she had had contacts with leftist parties and former enemies since the beginning of the war ) were supposed to have been of some potential importance at the right moment.

With the conditional support of the leftist parties from the outside, the UPA formed a government under Dr Manmohan Singh.

Latin American journalists sometimes referred to the company as el pulpo (" the octopus "), and leftist parties in Central and South America encouraged the Company's workers to strike.

While remaining sharply critical of Glen Clark's NDP government, Parker spearheaded highly controversial negotiations to form municipal electoral alliances with NDP-affiliated parties in 1998 after vote-splitting all but wiped out leftist representation at the local level in Vancouver and Victoria in 1996.

Ronald Reagan, who had assumed the American presidency in January 1981, accused the Sandinistas of importing Cuban-style socialism and aiding leftist guerrillas in El Salvador.

Ali Bhutto, a leftist in political competition with Islamists, had banned alcohol, horse-racing, and nightclubs, and announced that the " sharia would be fully applied " within six months, shortly before he was overthrown.

The later Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm remarked that " One cannot say Marx died a failure " because, although he had not achieved a large following of disciples in Britain, his writings had already begun to make an impact on the leftist movements in Germany and Russia.

Much of this activity was from leftist and student groups, which had been instrumental in the overthrow of the First Republic.

However, he drew criticism from leftist groups because of the methods he had undertaken ( such as house demolitions ).

** Acting to halt ' leftist excesses ,' a junta composed of 2 army officers and 4 civilians takes over El Salvador, ousting another junta that had ruled for 3 months.

Though more than 500 foreign citizens were deported, including a number of prominent leftist leaders, Palmer's efforts were largely frustrated by officials at the U. S. Department of Labor who had responsibility for deportations and who objected to Palmer's methods.

While the majority of the Surrealist artists had become increasingly associated with leftist politics, Dalí maintained an ambiguous position on the subject of the proper relationship between politics and art.

Rodney was a well-known leftist, and the circumstances of his death damaged Burnham's image with many leaders and intellectuals in less-developed countries who earlier had been willing to overlook the authoritarian nature of his government.

In 1975, after the leftist military coup of 24th April 1974 in Portugal that overthrew the Estado Novo regime which had governed the nation and its overseas territories, the colonial wars that raged in the various Portuguese African territories since the early 1960s ended.

This was generally regarded as a rebuke to Chirac and his government as well as the PS leadership, the majority save for the leftist faction and Laurent Fabius — had supported the proposed constitution.

Anouilh told him that he had been looking for an idea based on a rift in the leftist Théâtre National Populaire between the actors Gérard Philipe and Daniel Ivernel.

" Although he was considered a leftist autocrat, he simultaneously had the support of the United States as he opposed communism.

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 ).

Fusako Shigenobu had left Japan with only a handful of dedicated people, but her group is said to have had about 40 members at its height and was from the Lod airport massacre on one of the best-known armed leftist groups in the world.

In occupied Greece, however, the leftist partisans of the National Liberation Front ( EAM ) and National Popular Liberation Army ( ELAS ), now unfettered by Metaxas ' oppression, had become the largest Greek Resistance movement, enjoying considerable popular support.

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.

The film, entitled L ' Age d ' Or, was begun as a second collaboration with Dalí, but, while working on the scenario, the two had a falling out ; Buñuel, who at the time had strong leftist sympathies, desired a deliberate undermining of all bourgeois institutions, while Dalí, who eventually supported the Spanish fascist dictator Francisco Franco and various figures of the European aristocracy, wanted merely to cause a scandal through the use of various scatological and anti-Catholic images.

Moreover, the party's core became heavily dominated by Cultural Revolution beneficiaries and leftist radicals, whose focus remained upholding ideological purity.

Politically, Foucualt remained a leftist throughout his life, but his particular stance within the left often changed.

Although the Afro-Guyanese middle class was uneasy with Burnham's leftist leanings, the PNC remained a shield against Indo-Guyanese dominance.

During the runoff, Cherry and his surrogates accused Faubus of having attended a " communist " school and implied that his sympathies remained leftist.

Some of its members left the party and remained in Synaspismos, which evolved into a separate left-wing party that is now an alliance of Synaspismos with other leftist groups called the Coalition of the Radical Left.

Gellhorn remained a committed leftist throughout her life and was contemptuous of those who, like Rebecca West, became more conservative.

Meanwhile, in Spain, smaller formations of Nationalists and Guardia Civil forces were locked in combat with pro-government militias, Assault Guards and those army units which remained loyal to the leftist Popular Front government.

The leftist parties and groups remained keen to keep other parties on the track towards the ousting of Ershad's regime.

With conservative Democrats controlling the Assembly, and business friendly Republicans in the Senate, Olson had little room to promote his New Deal politics, while the Legislature remained weary of Olson's leftist agenda.

In what remained of his term, the 80-year old president tried to curb the influence of military officers and worked relentlessly against the leftist current that was brewing in Syria, characterized by socialist ideology, sympathies for the Soviet, and blind adherence to the policies of the socialist leader of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser who were supported by members of the president's own powerful clan, such as Jamal al-Atassi and Nureddin al-Atassi.

Franqui broke ranks with the Cuban Communist Party in the late 1940s, but he remained an unaffiliated leftist.

Publicly, Morote remained until his death a respected social scientist of leftist political leanings.

He was reelected in the 1982 and 1986 elections and remained in office until 1990 ( although he later switched from the Communist Party of Greece ( KKE ) to the radical leftist Synaspismos ).

The paper remained outside particular party organizations, while continuing to advocate a unified leftist party in the United States.

It remained the main leftist political party in Venezuela from its foundation in 1931 until it split into rival factions in 1971.

The Christian ( particularly Quaker ) presence at the Camp remained constant throughout its existence, and was soon supplemented by people of many other faiths ( particularly neo-paganism ) and of none, and by people of various leftist and counter-cultural persuasions.