Word: leftist
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...first glance, last week's 287-217 parliamentary vote granting the island of Corsica increased autonomy may look like another exercise in partisan politics. France's leftist majority dutifully supported the government of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, while the conservative opposition just as predictably snubbed it. In reality, however, the bill is causing division even within political parties and may set off significant changes in France's highly centralized governing structure...
...make Corsica an unmanageable headache for French governments since 1975. Conservative detractors like Nicole Ameline, spokeswoman for the centrist Liberal Democracy Party, argued the bill legitimizes "violence as a means of gaining political recognition." Other rightists condemned it as "preparing independence." The loudest protests came from Jospin's own leftist majority. Former Interior Minister Jean-Pierre Chevènement - who resigned last year in protest against Jospin's plans - decried the bill, asking, "Who is so naive to believe that whatever is granted to Corsicans today won't also be demanded tomorrow by the Basques, Bretons, Savoyards?" Similar misgivings were...
...blamed Harvard's administration for keeping "incompetent" professors in entrenched positions through it tenure system and for coddling leftist ideas...
...PSLM’s tactics seems to be a strategy of shaming people into believing the way they do: some ask “how can you not believe in a living wage?” This is nothing but moral arrogance, and it reeks of leftist censorship...
...drug interdiction efforts are unlikely to resolve the problem of drug abuse in the U.S., it does wreak havoc with democracy in the region. In Colombia, for example, narco-traffickers have found that the best way to protect their investment from interdiction is to enlist the support of either leftist guerrillas or rightist paramilitaries, providing the gunmen with the revenues to keep their war going in perpetuity. And just as much as the U.S. government uses economic aid to enlist the support of Latin American governments to join the war on drugs, so does it pay for the drug cartels...