Sentences with phrase «left wing social»

«It will indicate whether or not the Democratic Party is willing to accept right wing economics and left wing social policy as a political strategy,» Brodsky said.

Then after we've left, try and figure out who's paying the taxes for your wacky left wing social programs.

Not exact matches

While the new president has a more pro-business agenda than his predecessor Hollande, he might be significantly constrained in his social and economic reforms if he needs the support of both mainstream right - wing and left - wing parties.

In the speech that urged the Alliance to embrace social conservatives, Harper also said that left - wing Canadians stand for «radical, responsibility - free individualism» and «tribalism in the form of group rights.»

♦ Writing for the left - wing site opendemocracy.net, Byung - Chul Han, a South Korean cultural theorist who teaches in Berlin, notes the market's colonization of social relations we once considered outside its scope.

Right wing conservative types have a Jesus who is against gay marraige, is anti-abortion, thinks there should be prayer in school, and teaches the prosperity stuff and so on... Left wing liberal Christians quote the verses about giving up possessions, feeding and clothing the poor... inner city Christians often have a Jesus who is about social justice... we were made in His image?

«Their kidnapping took place», continued the BBC report, «during a period of massive state repression of left - wing activists, union leaders and social activists which became known as the «Dirty War».

More and more often on Catholic campuses, left - wing Catholics are hiding their own ideological preferences behind the mantra «Catholic social thought.»

The idea of neoconservatism as a liberal plot to highjack conservatism for the left might seem hopelessly dated» the social democratic wing of neoconservatism disappeared long ago» but it remains vibrantly alive in the pages of journals like Chronicles and in the imaginations of ideologues attracted to the candidacy of Pat Buchanan.

The overall suspicion, in other words, is that somehow Christian faith has lost its «transcendent» element, that It has been «reduced» to «horizontalism» at the expense of «verticalism,» that it has become nothing more than «ethics» (and left - wing ethics at that), that «social analysis» has replaced theology, that revolution has replaced revelation — and that Karl Marx is the source of all the difficulty.

He was closer to the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius than to the Gospel of Mark, but the Meditations are an improvement on the right - wing talk radio or left - wing social - justice utopians of the moment.

There are plenty of left - wing evangelicals, deeply committed to social and environmental justice.

The technique might have been expected to over-represent liberal or left wing parties because of the prevalence of young, urban voters online, but it appears the use of search data, as opposed to social media, may have limited the impact of demographic imbalances online.

Against this backdrop, many social democrats — still desperate to haunt the «house of power» (Weber, 1991, 194)-- have begun to position themselves as the left wing of austerity.

So, for instance, left wing politicians might not speak about poorer people as dirt explicitly but Sadiq Khan would happily talk about «social cleansing».

Working class interests were at least theoretically served best by left wing parties e.g. setting / raising the minimum wage, Universal Free healthcare, the welfare state, social security etc..

Perhaps a new «third way» that avoids the over-simplistic definitions of right - wing capitalism and left - wing socialism is needed, because even though the aims of the protest movement would seem to be leaning towards a social - democratic, «leftist» welfare state, a significant number of protesters clearly do not wish to detach themselves from the political right, and are very much opposed to being associated with the left.

The main choice was between the incumbent Hugo Chávez, backed by a coalition of progressive and left - aligned parties and social movements, and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor with strong ties to the country's elite, who had formed a right wing coalition known as the MUD.

On the other side of the conventional spectrum we have the left wing, which often advocates environmentalism and social services but are dismissive of vetting immigration and are open to changing core cultural values according to the trend of the moment.

That did not sit well with some left - wing party activists, the group Rise and Resist, who protested the governor, shouting «shame» and released a video widely viewed on social media.

Its politics are also more left - wing than England's, with a centre left government of the European social democrat style - but again, the idea that Scots are uniformly, or even mostly, sympathetic towards benefits claimants and the such like is unsupported by evidence.

Whereas left - wing eurosceptics usually coin their opposition to the EU in social and democratic terms and only rarely challenge the very principle of European integration, right - wing eurosceptics express their anti-EU position in explicitly nationalist and anti-European terms.

Yet the doubts persist, even among those who should be his natural allies on the left - leaning social liberal wing of the party.

A well - known left wing member of the SNP, she has campaigned strongly on social justice issues, seeking better treatment for asylum seekers and she holds the SNP Deputy portfolio for that area.

The left - leaning wing of the party — the Social Liberal Forum — has released a series of potential amendments and emergency motions for the party's autumn conference.

Oakeshott, a stalwart of the party's social democratic left wing and a vocal critic of the Tory - Lib Dem coalition's economic policies, had long been a political opponent of Nick Clegg.

A number of features stand out: gender; left - wing identity; social liberalism; campaign activism; feelings about the leadership; and the possibility that the ranks of the newer members, and those that support Jeremy Corbyn, may have been swollen by what we call «educated left - behinds» — people who, given their qualifications, might have been expecting to earn more than they currently do.

Ever since World War I, when the the likes of the UK Labour Party, the Australian Labor Party and the German Social Democratic Party split over the slaughter in the trenches, left - of - centre parties have been divided between a principled pacifist wing and what has normally been a majority prepared to back military force when considered necessary.

Labour will either remain a broadly social democratic party, committed to a mixed economy and parliamentary democracy or it will evolve into a left - wing socialist party, committed to large - scale nationalisation and direct action.

Given the Labour Party's geography of support, but also given the increased level of opposition the party faces on the left of the political spectrum from Sinn Fein, Solidarity - People Before Profit, the Social Democrats and other left - wing groupings / independent candidates, it was argued that Labour would struggle to convert votes into seats if their national support levels fall below the 10 % level, as indeed proved to be the case with the February 26th election.

The GMB resolution at the Labour Party conference stressed defending employment and social rights and not aligning with the Tories, and was a welcome starting point for what should now be a major issue for Labour's left, namely determining that Labour's campaign is distinctively left wing and not indistinguishable from the general In campaign.

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

For starters, the PVV proposes much more left - wing social politics than the VVD (more on that later) while also being much more right - wing on other topics.

The debate opens with an amendment put forward by the Social Liberal Forum (SLF), a left - wing pressure group, for a change of economic policy.

The only problem is that such a beastie does NOT quite exist in USA as a political party - a vast majority of US left wing parties, Communist included, tend to have much more progressive social policies (# 2)- see below.

Members of the British Association of Social Workers do not contact us to say they're worried that they have absorbed a left - wing bias, but that they have more children on their books than they can possibly hope to deal with.

Gov. Cuomo tried to placate the left wing of the Democratic Party Thursday, promising the faithful at the state convention that he would complete an unfinished progressive social agenda in...

I suspect the divisions of political opinion within the public sector (right - wing coppers, left - wing social workers etc) to be at least as great as the simple public - private divide.

The LAPFF is a distraction from this as it is a talking shop to meddle with companies according to some left wing interpretation of «social responsibility» - with seminars on heightism.

Esquerra Republicana is a Catalan political left - wing party defined as social democratic, in favour of the independence of the Catalan Countries, including Catalonia, Valencia, and Balearic and Pityusic Islands.

German politics at the time had the following rough divisions: A far left wing, personified by the KPD and USPD, which wanted a radical redistribution of wealth from rich profiteers to people at all levels; a social reorganization, doing away with noble, military, landowning, and industrial elite rulers; and an end to...

It may be funded through a regressive tax system, but the BBC symbolises many of the great achievements of the left, and specifically the way left - wing economic and social models are far more effective and valuable than their free market alternatives.

What you speak of is called «social security privatization» - that is something that is vehlemently opposed by left wing because we can't possibly trust people to decide how to handle their retirement as opposed to smart mommies and daddies in federal government.

Some party strategists believe the name should change to include the word «social», in order to reassure members and voters that it is more left wing.

Left - wing advocacy group Media Matters for America has been quietly working with social media giant Facebook to combat what the group describes as «propaganda» and «fake news,» internal documents reveal.

it depends the definition of left wing in relation to being pro the EU, for social reasons rather than economic ones Richard Gadsen, yes, very unlikely, but the PLP may form its own opposition of Jez wins, in September and we have a different leader of the opposition to the leader of the labour party, hope this doesn't happen

Jeremy Corbyn, a member of the left - wing Campaign Group welcomed Ms Harman's concentration on social class and called on ministers to follow it with more spending on social housing and education in poor areas.

Section 28 was designed to prevent daft Left - wing councils (and therefore schools, libraries and social services) from peddling pro-gay propaganda on the rates.

But if he did pretend it fooled enough of the electorate who thought he was too left wing, so they voted Tory, I can't believe that the electorate looked at Ed, said, Ah, he's only pretending to have spent the last 5 years denouncing New labour, let the 2 people who got him in place, Mkclusky and Paul Kenny, get Blaitites Liam Byrne, Frank fileld sacked, then say as opposed to new labour he had a social conscience, yet when it comes to it, he's really new labour as he's not left wing enough, I'll vote for a party who are right wing, they'd have all voted greens if they wanted it

While you might never know it if you only followed cable news, social media, and many of our federal representatives, the majority of America, and more specifically Erie County, is not made up of left - wing or right - wing fringe.