Word: leftist
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...breaking new ground by keeping the post?arguably the country's most important, since it makes him the military commander in chief. His predecessor, Deng Xiaoping, retained the Military Commission chairmanship for three years after relinquishing his other titles in 1987. Deng, however, hung on because he feared his leftist enemies would divert the country from economic reform. Jiang has no progressive agenda to defend, and some observers say he is sowing the seeds of political strife by clinging to power. "He's lost the chance to do something new and positive," complains one influential Party member...
...Eliezer, who as Sharon's Defense Minister oversaw massive military operations against the Palestinians. But it seems just as pointedly at odds with the Israeli mood. Instead of bringing centrist Israelis back to Labor, Mitzna appears likely to poach from other dovish parties in a shrinking pool of leftist voters. "Mitzna has vacated the center and Sharon is sliding in," says Dan Schueftan, a Haifa University professor and friend of Mitzna. Sharon's response to the Jerusalem bus bomb that killed 11 Israelis last Thursday shows what Mitzna is up against. To cast himself as the moderate in this week...
...this vein, the production makes no attempt to revamp the script or drill home the work’s potential impact on a modern audience. Instead, it stays true to sometimes quirky 1930s lingo and the brazenly leftist, pro-union messages. The characters, too, with names like Mr. Mister and Dr. Specialist—not-so-subtle prototypes of social powers and evils—remain perfectly intact from Blitzstein’s original...
...knee-jerk liberal ideology. Massachusetts voters soundly rejected the “visionary, progressive stances” of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shannon P. O’Brien, whom the Staff endorsed. Republican victories in Massachusetts and across the nation suggest that the Staff’s unfailingly leftist values are seriously out of touch with those of the voters...
...Jewish family, Lerner was a teenager when the fascist regime came to power in Austria in 1934. She became engaged in the underground student resistance movement, but when the Nazi takeover later forced her and her family into exile, she alone escaped to the U.S. to join the radical leftist party and embark on her academic career...