the Australian Labor Party: the main left-wing party in Australia, and one of the two main political parties

the African National Congress: a political party in South Africa that for many years fought against the system of apartheid. In 1994, the ANC formed the first government in South Africa to be elected by both black and white people and it has stayed in power since then.

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someone who supported Lenin and his political ideas at the beginning of the 20th century

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an insulting word for someone with strong left-wing opinions

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someone with left-wing political opinions who is very rich. This word is often used to show that you dislike people like this.

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an insulting word for a communist

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someone who believes in communism

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someone who belongs to a political party that supports communism

adjective

relating to communism, or involving people who are communists

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used for talking to or about a member of a Socialist Party by other members of a Socialist Party

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someone who supports a political party, especially the Communist party, but is not a member of it

a committee of US politicians who, in the 1950s, accused many writers and other artists of being Communists and therefore enemies of the US

abbreviation

the labour party

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the British labour party: can be followed by a singular or plural verb

adjective

relating to or supporting the British labour party

one of the three main political parties in the UK, originally started to try to improve conditions for working-class people. After many years in the 1980s and 1990s when it did not get elected as a government, the party made its policies less left-wing and began to call itself New Labour. The Labour Party was elected as the government in 1997 and again in 2001 and 2005

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people or groups with left-wing political opinions, for example those who generally believe that property, money, and power should be shared more equally

adverb

towards the left in politics

adjective

left-wing

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someone who is left-wing

adjective

slightly left-wing

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the members of a political organization whose aims and ideas are considered to be more socialist than the other members, for example because they believe that property, money, and power should be shared more equally: can be followed by a singular or plural verb

adjective

someone who is left-wing is considered to have socialist aims and ideas, for example that property, money, and power should be shared more equally

adjective

used about left-wing theories, policies etc

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someone who is left-wing

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a form of Communism established in China and based on the political ideas of Mao Zedong

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someone who supports Maoism

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the political and economic theories of Karl Marx, from which Communist and socialist political systems developed

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someone who supports Marxism or that policies that are based on it

adjective

relating to or based on Marxism

a name that the Labour Party in the UK has used to describe itself since the middle of the 1990s to show that it is modern and less left-wing than it once was

adjective

having socialist beliefs that are not very strong or extreme

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the main committee of a Communist party that is responsible for making policy

a British spelling of presidium

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a committee in Communist countries that represents a larger political group such as a parliament

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an insulting word meaning socialist or communist

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an insulting word for a socialist or communist

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a red flag used as a sign of socialism

adjective

someone who is right on has fashionable left-wing views on political and social issues. This word often shows that you dislike people like this

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the belief that society should change from capitalism to socialism in a gradual, peaceful, and democratic way

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a political system that aims to create a society in which everyone has equal opportunities and in which the most important industries are owned or controlled by the whole community

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an insulting word for someone with left-wing political ideas

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someone who supports the very left-wing political ideas of Leon Trotsky

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people whose political views are either extremely right-wing or left-wing