Word: leftist
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...conference delegates gathered amid speculation that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, whose popularity has fallen as she has pursued tight-money policies, would call a special election as early as next spring if Benn won the vote. Moderates expressed concern that Benn and a strongly leftist platform would cost labor such an election...
...then announced that he had officially dissociated himself from Israel. There was no public Israeli complaint. This could be a first step in carrying out one goal of the plan: ending Israel's active support of the Christian forces in their struggle against the Syrians, Palestinians and leftist Lebanese Muslims...
Labor leaders have tried to impress upon the public the total unity of working people in this effort. Even AFL-CIO president Lane Kirkland, a staunch anti-communist who has eschewed all ties with the more leftist of European labor federations, would not deny reports that the American Communist Party is among Solidarity Day's sponsors. Yet, even if the march attracts a large turnout, true labor solidarity will not yet exist. In spite of the AFL-CIO support for Carter, millions of rank-and-file workers turned out for a candidate who has traditionally opposed the minimum wage, social...
...suspicious acts." But political opponents of Sadat's regime charged that the President was exploiting the issue of religious strife to silence critics of Egypt's peace treaty with Israel and of endemic problems such as inflation, corruption and housing shortages. Said Khaled Mohieddin, leader of the leftist National Progressive Unionist Party: "Everyone who reads the names of the detainees will understand the aim of the campaign...
Sadat's government has kept a watchful eye on a nascent coalition of opposition groups. Following Israel's bombing of the Baghdad nuclear reactor and Beirut, leftist and religious critics began sharing the same platform to denounce Sadat's wholehearted embrace of the U.S.-sponsored Camp David peace process. The broad purge seemed to reflect an uneasy concern that the regime's detractors were displaying new signs of unity...