Noam Chomsky, an American leftist intellectual, recently called it "the most important and exciting popular movement in the world".That is surely because the struggle in which it is engaged is violent in recent times, elemental and morally stark, pitting a million poor members against a handful of landlords who behave with the lordly impunity of feudal barons.
What is more, leftist protesters recently dogged Bolivian Vice President Álvaro García Linera in New York at the yearly Left Forum conference.
How was The Huffington Post mixed up in all of this? "Meanwhile, on the Huffington Post blog--one of many liberal websites to celebrate Feingold of late -- the leftist icon Tom Hayden recently asked, 'Is Russ Feingold the Next Howard Dean?'".
Hamdeen Sabahi, a former leftist presidential candidate, recently described plans for a post-Morsi government.
The leftist daily Libération recently warned readers with the headline, "Air-Conditioning Cools You, While Heating Up the Planet".
Thousands of fighters have deserted.Even Hugo Chávez, Venezuela's leftist president, who recently called for the world to recognise the FARC as "legitimate belligerents", has changed his tune.
Officials of the leftist Meretz Party, who recently resigned their cabinet positions so that Shas would stay in the government, were furious.
Now, however, he has launched an assault that has been met with an unprecedented revolt at all levels of the company.Gaston Parra, the leftist academic who recently became chairman of PDVSA, is the fourth Chavez appointee to the post.
There is a touch of hysteria on the left, meanwhile, as the coalition sets about making changes that leftist voices until recently argued for, and now long to take swipes at.
Rather than a leftist sanctuary, Canada has recently swung to the right, which may give liberals-in-exile pause.
