The word "leftist" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who has a left-wing political point of view or someone who is a member of a left-wing group or organization. For example, "The leftist politicians held a rally in the town square."
"I wouldn't characterise all those people [ABC interviewers] as leftist – that's far too strong a term," he continued.
Acting with seeming impunity and military precision, the extremists oversaw an organised campaign that targeted dark-skinned immigrants, leftist opponents and gay people, according to state prosecutors, who spent 15 months investigating the openly xenophobic, antisemitic and homophobic group.
Slovakia's government under Iveta Radicová fell in October after balking at funding the bailouts on the grounds that it is poorer than those it was paying and was replaced by the leftist Robert Fico as prime minister.
The US government needs to set some clear rules to guide the courts and put the interests of the majority first – but there are no votes in Washington in rescuing leftist South American countries.
Of the leftist and liberal politicians who were expected to profit from Mubarak's overthrow three years ago, only a handful – including ElBaradei – have stuck to their principles by criticising both Morsi and his successors.
Leftist Farc rebels, from Pauline Vega's native Colombia, want her to visit them in Havana, where they are trying to negotiate a peace deal with the Colombian government.
The communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has defended the ABC against accusations of leftist bias, saying the publicly-funded broadcaster holds politicians of all persuasions to account.
Colombia's military fanned out through the jungles of the country's north-west on Monday in the hunt for a general whose kidnap by presumed leftist Farc rebels has put two years of peace talks in limbo.
The crackdown on Morsi supporters and secular activists has been far more brutal, but some journalists now fear they will be next after Islamists and then leftist revolutionaries were targeted.
Even leftist Syriza in Greece has a rightwing nationalist party, the Independent Greeks, in the mix, maximising its opportunities to be unkind to migrants.
It is not difficult to discern where Wilders, who combines far-right anti-immigrant positions with leftist welfarism, is getting his inspiration: Rome.
