Sentences with word «leftwing»

Meanwhile, in Scotland, the SNP decimated Scottish Labour by claiming to be the true party of leftwing politics.

Serwotka used to be a Labour member but has since expressed support for other leftwing parties at elections.

Changing the political makeup of Labour's representatives in parliament is a key aim of Corbyn's project to reshape his party; and the battle for the future of Labour has intensified this week after a clean sweep by leftwing candidates, including Momentum's Jon Lansman, in the latest round of elections to the party's ruling national executive committee (NEC).

And Stella Creasy has decided to fight her corner with a scathing attack on leftwing group Momentum, accusing them of putting «meetings and moralising» ahead of proper campaigning.

Identifying radical Islam as leftwing also requires you to disregard the fact that their funding is almost exclusively from dissident, if hyper - rich, members of the Saudi elite and their popular support is minimal.

On the opening day of his first party conference as leader, Mr Kennedy was warned by leftwing activists to resist further «cosying up» to Tony Blair's government and to create a distinctive agenda for the party.

Defenders of California's current direction point to its good economy as proof that leftwing politics work.

Creasy has come under sustained pressure from leftwing activists in her own Walthamstow constituency, with anti-war campaigners protesting outside her office ahead of last year's vote on authorising air strikes on Syria.

«Or do we revert to an old - style, «government - knows - best» culture championed by the most leftwing Labour leader for a generation?»

Greece's centre - left party is to take its turn in a final attempt at building a coalition on Thursday after failing to reach common ground in talks with the radical leftwing Syriza party.

Before becoming the outspoken, leftwing MP for Hampstead and Highgate in 1992, Glenda Jackson was considered one of Britian's leading actresses.

Nor is there any evidence, as claimed by Blairites and the media, that Miliband's pro-cuts and «squeezed middle» Labour party was too leftwing for the public or ignored «aspirational» voters — as if all voters weren't aspirational.

An anti-bombing demonstration outside of Creasy's constituency offices in Walthamstow — the MP is one of around 80 members of Parliament who have yet to decide how to vote on today's motion on airstrikes in Syria — is the latest in a series of clashes between supporters of Creasy and a series of organized leftwing campaigns.

The prime minister is privately furious that many Liberal Democrats see their future to the left of Labour - since it would wreck his long - term project to isolate leftwing members of the party.

The leading psephologist also suggested a shift left was not to blame for party's election defeat, pointing out that for Scottish voters it was not leftwing enough

Ironically, lowering the threshold for MP nominations (the so - called McDonnell Amendment) at the same time that Labour elected enough leftwing MPs to guarantee a spot on the ballot (even under the old rules) may cause their vote to split.

In fact, as reported by Mike Antonucci, five days after the election, the teacher union - dominated Democracy Alliance — a coalition of leftwing Democrats chaired by NEA Executive Director John Stocks — met to strategize about the years ahead.

New Labour, after all, successfully prevented many leftwing candidates being selected, meaning that there is a missing generation.

Labour leader sets out leftwing agenda in speech that hits back at critics who say he is uninterested in winning elections

Kramer fought against leftwing political bias in art criticism, and what he perceived as the aesthetic nihilism characteristic of many 20th century working artists and art critics.

Former chancellor is latest Labour veteran warning about dangers of leaving EU as Stronger In campaign tries to enlist leftwing voters

Yet if most of the British leftwing art here veers from staid realism to second - hand surrealism, that is not really the point.

If Mark - Viverito is running the Council, then de Blasio can deflect blame if any particularly loony leftwing policy implementations go awry.

«However it is something else entirely to suggest that we flawed creatures made predominantly leftwing programmes.

Mandelson is probably intensely relaxed about cutting democratic corners if it means more «New Labour» special advisers and the like on the green benches, but utterly opposed to the normal workings of Labour democracy if it means leftwing or trade union candidates being chosen.

While the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens are all naturally inclined towards leftwing alliances and the unionists and UKIP towards the right, the realpolitik of bargaining for power can sometimes produce surprise alliances.

The debate within Labour over how to attack David Cameron's Conservatives intensifies today with a new leftwing pamphlet warning that the Tories can not be dismissed as toffs, and nor can Cameron be characterised as a shallow salesman.

When, during the last Labour leadership election, I posed critical questions for Corbyn supporters, one senior leftwing figure told me I had resigned from the left.

Granting that culture and economics intersect, isn't it a bit odd that the social views of the average leftwing editor are indistinguishable from those of the CEO of Apple?

Noddings» answers to these questions have won her praise in feminist and leftwing circles; her book is hailed by Rosemary Ruether and Daniel Maguire as an «important contribution to philosophical ethics» and a work that should be «significant» in theological seminaries.

The Tory right would set up an Independent Conservative Party probably backed by UKIP, to stand against the Coalition and many Lib Dems on the left will join Labour (or for the really leftwing ones, the Greens).

He insisted Progress's centrist agenda remained relevant, despite Labour's better - than - expected performance in the general election on Corbyn's more leftwing prospectus.

ATHENS, Greece (AP)-- A Greek junior cabinet minister has resigned over comments in which he inferred that leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras misled protesting farmers by promising, before last year's elections, to improve their situation.

Fox News posted a Jan. 26, 2009, assessment entitled «Leftwing Extremists Likely to Increase Use of Cyber-Attacks over the Coming Decade.»

So, fare thee well, you wonderful Jewish, atheist, civil - libertarian, leftwing pro-lifer.

The dispute has highlighted lingering antipathy between Roman Catholic conservatives and proponents of liberation theology, which in the 1970s and 1980s created a bridge in Latin America between radical priests and leftwing militants.

Mayor Barry's alliance with Farrakhan was but the latest episode in the series of Reichstag fire incidents that began with the fraudulent claims of Tawana Brawley and have escalated since, in which the normal processes of the judicial system are converted by leftwing racists and black «nationalists» into their standard morality play about oppressive Amerikkka ruled by white devils and in need of liberation.

Much of the party's leftwing moaned that the likely leadership contenders were members of the coalition.

John Beckett, who started as an angry leftwing Labour MP and who finished in the British Union of Fascists, is linked to Dalton by Beckett's son, Francis, who wrote his father's biography.

It's true that, in recent years, popular redistributive policies haven't translated into electoral success for Labour — but that doesn't mean the public isn't genuinely leftwing.

You wouldn't realise it from our newspapers, but most people in the UK are economically quite leftwing.

Before Jeremy Corbyn, it was Ed Miliband who was attacked as unacceptably leftwing.

«I struggle with how the particular facts cited on eg working hours or racism can be «ahistorical», but look forward to finding out...» Perhaps you are labouring under the middle class leftwing relativism that believes that history is all just opinion, and that all facts are thereby historical.

If that sounds like the Compass - supporting, leftwing Chuka of his pre-Shadow Cabinet days, the Progress - supporting, centrist Chuka of recent years is not far away either.

There are pockets across the country where the mood is ugly, as driven leftwing elements within the enlarged local memberships and in Momentum have targeted elected councillors or MPs whom they view as insufficiently Corbynist.