Word: leftist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...murder shocked Guatemala, but the shock has become familiar. According to the Commission for Human Rights in Central America, since 1965 about 38,000 Guatemalans have been slain in political violence or have disappeared. The past four weeks alone have seen nearly 100 killings, some at the hands of leftist guerrillas, the overwhelming majority by government security forces and right-wing death squads. The upsurge in violence comes as the country is beginning to prepare for November elections that are expected to bring to power Guatemala's first nonmilitary government in two decades. The elections are part of a campaign...
...labor force is either unemployed or underemployed. Discontent over the inability of the military regime of General Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores to reverse the economic slump and doubt that a civilian government may be able to do much better have revived support for the country's leftist guerrillas. "There are many people in this country living in misery," says Benedicto Lucas García, a retired general and former Chief of Staff who directed a ruthless anti-insurgency campaign in 1980 and 1981 that had the rebels on the run. "That's why the guerrillas are growing stronger...
Deng's increasingly leftist ideas quickly brought him into contact with radical politics. Like many other Chinese students in France, he joined the French Communist Party, where he learned basic Marxist theory as well as the Internationale. (The Chinese Communist Party was not founded until 1921.) Later, as a member of the Chinese Socialist Youth League in France, Deng was assigned to mimeograph its journal, Red Light, a task he performed with such zeal that his fellow activists nicknamed him "Doctor of Mimeography...
...terrorist's bumper year. In West Germany, bombs that exploded in and around U.S. military installations killed three and injured 50. Investigators strongly suspected that a terrorist bomb had destroyed an Air India Boeing 747 carrying 329 passengers and crew across the Atlantic in June. In the same month, leftist guerrillas opened fire on four crowded San Salvador cafés, slaying 13 people, including six Americans...
...supremely self-confident playwright. His dramatic inventions--of private conversations, of motivational hints--are always plausible. And applaudable, if you are, like this reviewer, skeptical of the Iraq war effort. But they are, of course, historically unreliable. For Hare is a British twit of the tiresomely superior leftist kind. We have no doubt that if he, instead of Blair, had been Prime Minister, he would have stood up more manfully to the Bushies. We have no doubt of his pip-pip contempt for the primitive politics of his slightly dim-witted American cousins. This attitude is fun. And it makes...