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  • The police conducted hundreds of raids across the country on Monday against people Deputy Interior Minister Alfredo Mantovano described as far-left anarchists.

    NYT > Home Page By GAIA PIANIGIANI 2011

  • • NUS president Aaron Porter yesterday protested that the campaign he leads against higher tuition fees will not be deterred by racist chants and other abuse from far-left students who protest that he is "not militant enough".

    Michael White's diary 2011

  • Americans are waking up to what has really happened with the election of this far-left president.

    Senate Dems suggest they're open to altering health care bill 2009

  • Most normal think folks have the BHO administration figured out as nothing but a bunch of far-left leaning children.

    Axelrod slams Romney 2009

  • By contrast, far-left criminality, for which there is no "propaganda" category, was down to 3,747 in 2010 from 4,734 in 2009.

    Germany says Islamic terrorism still a threat 2011

  • He has surrounded himself with mostly far-left academic types.

    Matthew Yglesias » Stimulus Hypocrites Say ARRA Doesn’t Create Jobs, Try to Nab ARRA Jobs for Themselves 2010

  • Finally, and after a stint as an unwitting agent of Germany's terrorizing far-left Baader-Meinhof gang, Mountstuart winds up his life in comfort in France.

    Where the Time Goes Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • But just as the vote was about to begin, Kim Sun-dong, a member of the far-left Democratic Labor Party, set off a tear-gas canister on the dais.

    South Korea Clears U.S. Trade Deal Evan Ramstad 2011

  • Meanwhile, there is no such movement for the NDP and the Liberal Party to merge, as the support for a relatively far-left position is stronger in Canada, and (as Matthew notes in the original post) the lack of a nation-wide presidential vote means the NDP is free to pursue their own party line in individual legislative ridings.

    Matthew Yglesias » Why Two Parties? 2009

  • Meanwhile, communist and far-left groups are expected to do well at the expense of the center-left Socialists whose support has collapsed since they won the last elections in late 2009.

    Germany Insists on Greek Budget Controls Marcus Walker 2012

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