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Union members, students, government workers and centre-left opposition parties took part in the final day of a nationwide two-day strike, which included four separate protest marches in the capital and demonstrations across Chile.
Dozens injured after clashes on day two of Chile's strike 2011
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I think there are some substantial issues to be made about the problems facing the governing centre-left, which stem from a certain amount of captivity to high finance — and the repercussions of the neoliberal project.
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The paper - which is known for its robust support of the Iraq war - said it could also ease tensions with the Italian centre-left opposition, as Mr Blair comes from their political family.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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The promise that they have made us during the military regime and during 20 years of the [centre-left] Concertation [government], and during the era of Piñera, is that education was a way to climb up in society, and the students noticed that this wasn't true, Navarrete said.
Dozens injured after clashes on day two of Chile's strike 2011
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Sadly, David Cameron has twisted Nick Clegg round his little finger and, as a result, Clegg has done more harm to centre-left politics than anyone since David Owen.
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The paper - which is known for its robust support of the Iraq war - said it could also ease tensions with the Italian centre-left opposition, as Mr Blair comes from their political family.
"Vota Tony" 2009
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Barring a dramatic comeback by Nicolas Sarkozy, and barring another midair explosion of the sort that knocked Dominique Strauss-Kahn out of the skies, a France disillusioned with the quixotic and divisive leadership of the incumbent will turn to the centre-left for a calmer head and a safer pair of hands.
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Nothing will stop Ségolène Royal, Hollande's former wife, from entertaining the illusion that she can succeed in 2012 where she failed in 2007, and she may split the centre-left still further.
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Socrates, the centre-left Portuguese Prime Minister does not want Barroso back in Portuguese politics and for that reason has backed him for a second term.
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Neal Lawson, chair of the centre-left thinktank Compass, said it was right for Miliband to be thinking of working with the Lib Dems.
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