Are you a leftist or a rightist?

They concerned political opponents of the military dictatorship, from different social strata, most of them activists in the Chilean leftist parties.

This was visible particularly in 1984, when the United Leftist Front (Frente de Izquierdas Unidas) won the Lima Provincial Council and the number of councilwomen increased from 4 to 7.

302. In 1985, feminists made an incursion into politics with the participation of two women in presidential elections as quot independents quot with the United Leftist Front (Frente Izquierdas Unidas).

Troops fired on a peaceful demonstration at the plaza on Oct. 2, 1968, killing as many as 300 people at a time when leftist student movements were taking root throughout Latin America.

Moreover, not all protest parties reject the EU. In Europe s crisis affected countries, young people, who have been hardest hit, voted en masse for leftist anti austerity parties, most notably in Greece.

The anti immigration Danish People s Party finished second in the country s just concluded general election, with 22 of the vote. And, in Spain, the leftist anti austerity Podemos commands double digit support.

Because he was a very popular Leftist leader, so the central government wanted to purge him, and he was very cute, he convinced all the Chinese people, why he is so bad.

22. Instead, the Committee had heard from leftist militants and the like who had come to speak on an issue which was none of their business, pretending they were unaware of its complexities.

290. Two women are currently in high level positions in two major political parties (the Partido Aprista Peruano and the Partido Popular Cristiano), and a woman is the Deputy Director of the Leftist Democratic Movement.

Given that Lula is an avowed leftist who counts Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro among his friends, Brazil s performance is all the more surprising. How could he manage to preside over such a spectacular stock market boom?

It took it upon itself not only to meet EU membership criteria, but also push forward with other painful reforms. The comfortable role of criticizing the government fell into the hands of leftist populists, for a change.

Traditionally, people voted for the DAP or the Justice Party to show their displeasure with the National Front. Indeed, if ideas were important, a leftist party like the DAP would have found it difficult to cooperate with the PAS.

Compromise is anathema to the radical mind. Some radical leftist Muslims, obsessed with their opposition to Western imperialism and Israel, saluted Mousavi s defeat, for, as one such activist put it, the anti Zionist resistance cannot afford a pro American velvet revolution.

In a speech marking the Great Helmsman s 110th birthday in late 2003, he declared Mao to be a great proletariat revolutionary strategist and theorist. While Deng had castigated Mao s leftist errors, Hu s hagiographic address made no mention of his manifold blunders.

This is certainly true in Latin America, where a wave of leftist populism has swept many countries. Several Europe countries, too, have revealed a less dramatic left right split, with Spain and Italy though not Poland and the Czech Republic moving somewhat to the left.

The blogger who dismissed The Washington Post s corrections of Santorum s fictional portrayal of the Netherlands expressed himself like a perfect post modernist. The most faithful followers of obscure leftist thinkers in Paris, New York, or Berkeley are the most reactionary elements in the American heartland.

In the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, the task of completing such difficult reforms just before crossing the finish line fell to socialist parties, forcing them to betray their socialist identity in the eyes of leftist voters. As a result, their historic mission doomed them.

The key strategic move for the two remaining candidates will be to attract the votes of the Center without losing their core Leftist or Rightist constituencies. That means emphasizing in a reassuring way, economic credibility for Segolene Royal, and social compassion for Nicolas Sarkozy.

In foreign policy, India s growing closeness with the United States under both the BJP and the Congress has proved controversial at home, with leftist parties threatening to scrap the Indo US nuclear deal and break defense ties with Israel if they come to power.

But, though the Alliance certainly lost, the main opposition Swedish Social Democratic Party and its allies on the left did not win. In fact, the three leftist parties in Parliament gained a slightly smaller share of the popular vote than they did in the 2010 election.

Politics is heating up in middle income countries as well, and unions are pressing politicians to take action. Consider Chile, where the current leftist government has sent a bill to Congress that promises to improve income distribution simply by giving unions more power in collective bargaining.

Leftist and liberal critics of Israeli politics like to point out that anti Zionism is not the same thing as anti Semitism. But it is just as true that being a friend of Israel is not necessarily the same thing as being a friend of the Jews.

By contrast, far from causing the demise of an armed movement, the killing of a charismatic leader at the hands of his enemies can transform such a figure into a martyr. Che Guevera was far more valuable to leftist militancy after his death than he was while alive.

So, rather than dwell on the problems of contemporary political Islam, which are certainly considerable, it might be more fruitful to look at Turkey s conflicts from another, now distinctly unfashionable, perspective class. The protesters, whether they are liberal or leftist, tend to be from the urban elite Westernized, sophisticated, and secular.

The Field Marshal should be in jail now, screamed the elected leftist MP, Abu Ezz al Hariri, on the second day of the new parliamentary session. When Mahmoud Ghozlan, the Muslim Brotherhood spokesperson, proposed immunity (known in Egypt as the safe exit option), he faced a wave of harsh criticism.

LONDON Fiscal austerity has become such a staple of conventional wisdom in the United Kingdom that anyone in public life who challenges it is written off as a dangerous leftist. Jeremy Corbyn, the current favorite to become the next leader of Britain s Labour Party, is the latest victim of this chorus of disparagement.

Indeed, the new Salvadoran president, Mauricio Funes, was elected on the ticket of the FMLN, the party that succeeded the old, hard left guerrilla group of the 1980 s and 1990 s. He is a moderate, modern leftist who has openly identified himself with Brazilian President Lula and Barack Obama, as opposed to Chávez.

Xenophobes, as well as leftist multi cultural ideologues, regarded these new Europeans as utterly different from the native born, albeit for different reasons. Multi culturalists saw attempts to integrate non Westerners into the Western mainstream as a form of neo colonialist racism, while xenophobes just didn t like anything that looked, talked, or smelled foreign.

This is all the more remarkable at a time when right wing governments embrace regulation and even state intervention the cornerstones of leftist ideologies. At the same time, a request for transparency and a care for ecology are growing in the youngest generations across Europe, which explains the progress of the Green vote in many countries.

That plot, which included a young German convert to Islam, showed once again that terrorists can threaten us from both without and within. The nihilistic and destructive instincts that some young Germans of the Baader Meinhof generation acquired from extreme leftist ideology in the 1970 s, it seems, can be transformed into a romanticization of al Qaeda.

Bernie Sanders, a self described socialist, inspires enthusiasm. Sanders is riding the leftist wave in Democratic politics, and while many of his proposals may not be able to stand up against hard questioning (how, for example, would he fund his plan to make college tuition free for everyone?), he has so far managed to avoid any serious challenge to them.

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY Amongst the different leftist governments in Latin America, there are new and rather strident populist regimes (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador), which seem to grab all the attention. But there is also a social democratic strain to Latin American politics a historical novelty in the region that is gaining strength. In Brazil, Chile and Uruguay, social democracy is proving that it can work.

Powerful mainstream Socialists, such as former Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, joined traditional leftist minorities in the party either rigidly euroskeptic or unrealistically euromaximalist to rally around refusal. This stance came as a shock from Fabius, a signatory of the Single Act of 1986, a party leader during the Maastricht Treaty negotiations, and Finance Minister when France adopted the euro in 2001.

Tuto warns that, should Evo win, he might consolidate a Latin American axis of evil connecting a leftist Bolivia with Fidel Castro s Cuba and Hugo Chávez s Venezuela. Evo counters that Tuto is too linked to Bolivia s corrupt political establishment one of the most dishonest in the world according to the watchdog group Transparency International to do much for Bolivia s two thirds Indian majority.

President Jacques Chirac of France, but also Brazil s leftist president, Lula da Silva support a tax on airline tickets designed to finance poor countries development. Similarly, the centrist leader François Bayrou, has proposed imposing a Tobin tax (named after its creator, the Nobel laureate economist James Tobin) on financial transactions, with the proceeds to be used to support socially worthy causes.

Since the Cold War s end, it has fractured into a far more heterodox grouping whose members range from leftist regimes, as in Cuba, North Korea, and Venezuela, to the conservative monarchies (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar) of the Persian Gulf. So it should be no surprise that ideological cacophony has severely diluted the group s founding impulse of avoiding entanglement in the disputes of the world s superpowers.

The scandals surrounding the top aides to Lee nicknamed the Bulldozer from his career as a construction industry executive have complicated matters for the ruling Saenuri Party s candidate, Park Geun hye, and buoyed the hopes of her leftist rival, Moon Jae in of the Democratic United Party. Park is the daughter of former president, General Park Chung hee, who seized power in a military coup in 1961.

Likewise, pious conservatives and liberal and leftist secular youth, who joined forces in Cairo and Tunis in 2010 2011 to challenge the dictators, have now turned on each other witness the Egyptian security forces appalling massacres of Islamist demonstrators in Cairo recently, following a military coup carried out with liberals support. The region s people are sliding into enemy camps, deepening their societies wounds in the process.

Last June, the Slovaks evicted the government that brought the country out of the international isolation and economic malaise that it had suffered under the autocratic regime of Vladimir Meciar. Mikulas Dzurinda, whose reforms provided the country with growth and economic stability, was replaced by Robert Fico, a leftist who, having forged an alliance with Meciar and a neo fascist party, has also adopted a worrisomely populist tone.

Let me come back to now, now when I'm a little leftist I'm certainly left handed, so at least a lefty And I wonder, can we on the Left expect to build this ecology of freedom, now, in a world where we know the extraordinarily powerful influences against it, where even icons of the Left like this entertain and push bills that would effectively ban the requirement of open access for government funded research?

CAMBRIDGE When I was in Chile earlier this month, I was impressed by the contrast between the palpable success of its long standing free market policies and the current agenda of its leftist president, Michelle Bachelet. How this contrast is resolved will be important not only to the country s more than 17 million people, but also to everyone who regards Chile as a model of what sound economic policies have been able to achieve.

The fact that many prominent Jewish intellectuals in Europe and the United States often, like Kouchner, with a leftist past are sympathetic to the idea of using American armed force to further the cause of human rights and democracy in the world, may derive from the same wellspring. Any force is justified to avoid another Shoah, and those who shirk their duty to support such force are regarded as no better than collaborators with evil.

Third, Rousseff's rhetoric and origins as a militant leftist feed doubts as to whether she will pursue Lula's pragmatic, centrist economic and social policies. Her democratic credentials are as solid as his, but there are worries about her apparent enthusiasm for state intervention in the economy she seems to believe in the virtues of Keynesian fiscal stimulus at all times as well as her ability to control the Workers Party the way that Lula did.

9. As regards Ki Seh moon, the Government reported that the main criminal charges against him were that, in May 1993, he produced, published and distributed the memoires of Kim Se won, a member of a North Korean armed unit, and that, in February 1995, he organized the funeral ceremony of Yoon Ki nam, the commander of the same armed unit who was described by the Government as an unconverted radical leftist political prisoner .