Leftist activists split with the AFL-CIO in the 1960s over the Vietnam war when its longtime leader, ex-plumber George Meany, sided with the fiercest hawks in the Johnson and Nixon administrations.
Solomon's group is broadly aligned with Counter Fire, a leftist group that split from the Socialist Workers party and which might number 200 at most.
Democratic Left, a moderate leftist party that split off from Syriza in 2010 and also campaigned against the debt deal, was seen as a possible alternative to Syriza in a unity coalition.
Cohn-Bendit has warned the Green party should consider ditching its candidate and rallying behind a Socialist party candidate in order to avoid splitting the leftist vote.
The demonstration hastened the inevitable split between the leftist intellectuals, who had been incipient political activists all along, and the liberal intellectuals, who tended to avoid political activism.
If Niermann, Ramsey, and Sidie split the non-leftist vote, and Welder is the nominee, then Democrats would have a real uphill climb here.
Succeeding her husband after his death in 1974, Isabel Perón could not prevent a split between rightist and leftist factions of the Peronist coalition.
The Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, was in parliament seeking the backing of MPs for the deal, with several of his supporters playing down the possibility of a major split in his own radical leftist party, Syriza.
Fotis Kouvelis, 63, has led his party since 2011, after it was formed as the result of a split within Syriza, the radical leftist runner-up at the 17 June election.
As is the case with most leftist movements, the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign has split into a variety of People's Front of Judea Judean People's Front infighting.
