Sentence examples for leftist labour from inspiring English sources

In New Labour's version of history, more or less adopted wholesale in British public life, the sensible if tired administration of Jim Callaghan was brought down by mindless trade unionists, who then made common cause with a leftist Labour insurgency headed by Tony Benn.

Accused of being a "carpetbagger", it ensured he was one of the few leftist Labour councillors to remain on the GLC, which fell into Conservative hands under Horace Cutler.

The leftist Labour Party came third with 29 seats.

In 1981 he and other dissidents from the increasingly leftist Labour Party formed the Social Democratic Party, of which he was briefly leader.

Whereas previously the loudest opposition voice was that of leftists, Islamists, labour unions, the majority of the protesters are young people concerned with their economic future, hitting the streets without political affiliations and not guided by foreign agendas.

The confederation, based on Catholic social and anti-Marxist principles, rejected the theory of class warfare but occasionally collaborated on strikes with the leftist General Confederation of Labour (Confédération Générale du Travail, or CGT).

Momentum was originally set up by a grouping led by Jon Lansman – a veteran Labour leftist – to harness the energy behind the Jeremy Corbyn leadership campaign.

The former Wall Street banker was backed by a diverse front of leftist political parties, labour unions and student groups in a bid to prevent Fujimori from winning.

In the decade following, other leading political parties were the SLD, the PSL, the leftist Union of Labour (Unia Pracy; UP), the liberal-democratic Freedom Union (Unia Wolności; UW), and the centre-right Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość; PiS) and Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska; PO) parties.

But even the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer might be a little taken aback when he rises to deliver his autumn statement in the Commons today, to realise that he is only doing so because of a law drafted by Tony Benn, which the veteran Labour leftist proudly told MPs was a socialist measure.

The campaign brought Benn and other Labour leftists into an uneasy alliance with Enoch Powell and the Tory right.