India hates any idea of pro-China leftists returning to office across the border, especially given its own struggle against Maoist-branded insurgents at home.
In Britain, despite Labour's partial return to leftist roots in the election it lost on May 7th, the Greens defined themselves as the unapologetic party of the left and quadrupled their vote share, to 4%.
The party seemed riven by a looming leadership battle linked to the question of whether it will seek a return to leftist roots or swing to the center like Tony Blair's Labor Party in Britain.
Even if he is something of a political chameleon, Mr. Wang has become a torchbearer for advocates of free-market economics and quasi-enlightened governance, much the way his former rival Bo Xilai, the fallen party chief of Chongqing in southwest China, had been championed by the neo-leftists who crave a return of Mao-style populism.
This year's presidential election in Chile marks not only the return to leftist policies, but also stands as a powerful symbol of reflection on the 17-year dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
While the majority of the candidates are calling for a return to Leftist demands for more public services and government sponsored care, the frontrunner David Miliband is taking a broader approach with his Movement for Change (M4C).
Colombian officials and leftist Farc rebels returned to the bargaining table in Cuba last week, with both sides saying their two-year-old peace negotiations were on a stronger footing after having survived their first major crisis.
In 1927, Pauline moved to a utopian community founded by Theosophists in San Luis Obispo, and then to Carmel, where she edited and wrote for a leftist weekly before returning to Kings Road more or less permanently in the late nineteen-thirties.
After every military overthrow, another wave of political exiles had to abandon Turkey, like lost birds without a land to return to — Turkish leftists, Kurdish activists, human-rights defenders, ethnic minorities.
Eight years ago the ghosts of Argentina's dirty war – during which 30,000 suspected leftists were kidnapped and killed – returned to haunt him when he was accused of complicity in the kidnapping in 1976 of two liberal Jesuit priests.
