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LEFT-WING [15 records]

Record 1 2023-01-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Social Movements
  • National and International Security
OBS

The Tigray People's Liberation Front(TPLF...), also called the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist paramilitary group, a banned political party, and the former ruling party of Ethiopia. It is designated as a terrorist organization by the Ethiopian government.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Mouvements sociaux
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 2 2019-12-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Political Theories and Doctrines

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
CONT

Au Venezuela, au Brésil, en Bolivie et en Équateur, des partis politiques de gauche ont réussi à prendre le pouvoir parce qu'ils ont profité d'un appui indispensable de mouvements sociaux solidement implantés.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
  • Teorías y doctrinas políticas
CONT

En esto no tengo ningún tipo de duda, un partido político de izquierdas que realmente apostara por la renta básica, tendría mucha fuerza.

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Record 3 2012-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupational Bodies and Committees
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Social Movements
OBS

Confédération Paysanne was born in 1987 from the merging of two left-wing unions : the Confédération Nationale des Syndicats de Travailleurs Paysans(CNSTP) born in 1981, and the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats Paysans(FNSP) created in 1982.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités professionnels
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Mouvements sociaux
DEF

Syndicat agricole fondé en 1982 et dissous en 1987. Avec la Confédération nationale des syndicats de travailleurs paysans (CNSTP), elle est à l'origine de la création de la Confédération paysanne en 1987.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupational Bodies and Committees
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Social Movements
OBS

Confédération Paysanne was born in 1987 from the merging of two left-wing unions : the Confédération Nationale des Syndicats de Travailleurs Paysans(CNSTP) born in 1981, and the Fédération Nationale des Syndicats Paysans(FNSP) created in 1982.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités professionnels
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Mouvements sociaux
DEF

Syndicat agricole fondé en 1981 et dissous en 1987. Avec la Fédération nationale des syndicats paysans, elle est à l'origine de la création de la Confédération paysanne en 1987.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science (General)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
DEF

Of, relating to, or favoring the Left or a group belonging to the Left.

CONT

Consider ... a young woman who in college was much involved in leftist and progressive causes, a true social activist, committed and concerned.

PHR

left-wing liberal

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
DEF

Se dit de ce qui relève du gauchisme.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias políticas (Generalidades)
  • Sistemas electorales y partidos políticos
CONT

[...] un extremismo político de carácter insurgente o vigilante, pero habitualmente reactivo, al que la clasificación tradicional denomina de orientación derechista. En segundo término, podemos encontrar un extremismo político insurgente y proactivo, al que habitualmente se le adjetiva como de orientación izquierdista.

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Record 6 2010-06-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Electoral Systems and Political Parties
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
DEF

A political position that is neither extreme left-wing or extreme right-wing in traditional terms, but which espouses "radical" policies.

OBS

The term "radical centrism" is first recorded in 1997, whereas "radical centre" is much older, and "third way" is recorded in 1990. The British form is called "Blairism".

Key term(s)
  • Blairism
  • left-of-centre
  • post-socialism
  • progressive governance

French

Domaine(s)
  • Systèmes électoraux et partis politiques
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
CONT

le centrisme radical du premier ministre Blair (site de l'université de Poitiers, France).

CONT

Le centrisme révolutionnaire de la gauche républicaine (le Devoir du 5 avril 2003).

Spanish

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Record 7 2009-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Names of Events
  • Festivals, Carnivals and Social Events
  • Sociology of the Family
OBS

The World Festival of Youth and Students is an international event, organized by the World Federation of Democratic Youth(WFDY), a left-wing yough organization, jointly with the International Union of Students since 1947. The largest festival was the 6th, held in 1957 in Moscow, when 34, 000 young people from 131 countries attended the event. This festival also marked the international debut of the song "Moscow Nights", which subsequently went on to become perhaps the most widely recognized Russian song in the world. During the Cold War many festivals were held in capitals of Communist states because of the enormous expenditure and coordination required to support a youth festival. As a result, by the 1960s the festival' s were accused of being a powerful tool of Communist propaganda, a claim that has diminished with the festival' s continuing after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Noms de manifestations et d'activités diverses
  • Festivals, carnavals et fêtes
  • Sociologie de la famille
OBS

Le Festival mondial de la jeunesse et des étudiants est un évènement international organisé par la Fédération mondiale de la jeunesse démocratique, en collaboration avec l'Union internationale des étudiants depuis 1947.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Nombres de acontecimientos
  • Festivales y carnavales y eventos sociales
  • Sociología de la familia
OBS

El Festival Mundial de la Juventud y los Estudiantes (FMJE) es un evento internacional organizado en forma conjunta por la Federación Mundial de la Juventud Democrática (FMJD) y la Unión Internacional de Estudiantes desde 1947.

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Record 8 2005-11-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Security
  • Guerilla Warfare
OBS

The Red Army Faction(in German : Rote Armee Fraktion; RAF), also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group, or the Baader-Meinhof Gang, which was one of the core groups within the RAF, was postwar Western Germany's most active left-wing terrorist organization. The RAF referred to its members as "urban guerrillas". It operated from the 1970s to 1998, causing great unrest(especially in the autumn of 1977, which led to a national crisis) and killing dozens of high-profile Germans in its more than 20 years of existence.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Sécurité
  • Guérilla
Key term(s)
  • Faction de l'Armée rouge

Spanish

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Record 9 2005-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Non-Canadian)
  • Sociology of Ideologies
OBS

The Revolutionary Cells were the third, and least prominent, of the three left-wing terror groups in Germany in the early seventies. Organized into independently functioning cells, the RZ was possibly the most successful of the groups in the sheer number of its terrorist attacks.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux non canadiens
  • Sociologie des idéologies

Spanish

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Record 10 2003-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

Wealthy left-wing activists.

CONT

Only those who are so stinking rich that money doesn’t matter supported the Democrat’s opposition to tax cuts. But Republicans ... will still support tax cuts for those limousine liberals. With all that extra money in their pockets, maybe they will put it to more productive uses than propping up the rejected policies of the Democratic party. (Washington Times Editorial "The Richest 1 percent", December 18, 2002).

CONT

Just as the old limo liberals of the 1970s made everyone else suffer for their principles ... the new limo libs want to make the rest of America shoulder their fancies (Rich Lowry, The new limousine liberals, townhall.com, February 28, 2003).

Key term(s)
  • limousine liberals
  • limo lib
  • limo lefties

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Voir aussi «gauche caviar».

Key term(s)
  • gauche-caviar

Spanish

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Record 11 2003-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Organization
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
DEF

The left-liberal chattering classes stridently denounced Mr. Asper’s allegedly excessive power over the media. Yet this is the same clique that advocates foreign-ownership restrictions. But if the Canadian media indeed are concentrated in a few hands, Ottawa’s foreign-ownership rules are to blame.

OBS

to chatter: to utter rapidly and purposelessly.

OBS

chattering class : a slightly pejorative reference to the "talking heads" on television and to writers in the left-wing papers. Compare "radical chic"

OBS

radical chic: title of a novel by Tom Wolfe that holds up to ridicule the champagne left.

Key term(s)
  • chattering classes

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation sociale
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
CONT

Quinze ans après la fin de la Gauche prolétarienne, les anciens «maos» ont répudié la révolution. [...] Les voilà experts en communication, vedettes des médias, ou conseillers des hiérarques socialistes. [...] En 1970, ils se croyaient l'avant-garde de la classe ouvrière. En 1988, ils sont la gauche-caviar.

Key term(s)
  • gauche caviar
  • gauche cachemire

Spanish

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Record 12 2002-05-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Movements
  • National and International Security
CONT

Left-wing extremists in Europe have threatened to use CB [chemical and biological] agents against civilian populations or military targets.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mouvements sociaux
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
CONT

En Europe, des extrémistes de gauche ont menacé d'utiliser des agents chimiques et biologiques contre des populations civiles ou contre des cibles militaires.

Spanish

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Record 13 1991-01-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité

Spanish

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Record 14 1990-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Theories and Doctrines
  • Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Théories et doctrines politiques
  • Sécurité

Spanish

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Record 15 1990-02-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité

Spanish

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