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WHAT DOES HARD-LEFT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hard left

The 'hard left' is a specific tendency within the British Labour Party, as well as the Australian Labor Party. In the 1980s in the United Kingdom, the term hard left referred to supporters of Tony Benn, organised in the Socialist Campaign Group and Labour Briefing, as well as Trotskyist groups such as Militant tendency and Socialist Organiser. The hard left was more strongly influenced by Marxism, while the soft left had a more gradualist approach to building socialism. Politicians associated with the hard left in the Labour Party included Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Livingstone, Dennis Skinner and Eric Heffer. Paul Anderson and Nyta Mann wrote: Labour was... in the depths of the fratricidal blood-letting that had engulfed it after the defeat of Jim Callaghan's government. The activist left in the constituency parties and the trade unions, with support from some left MPs, most notably Tony Benn, was in revolt against what it saw as the failure of the 1974–9 government to put Labour's principles into practice.

Definition of hard-left in the English dictionary

The definition of hard-left in the dictionary is extremely left wing.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HARD-LEFT


infeft
ɪnˈfeft
inside-left
ˈɪnsaɪdˈleft
uncleft
ʌnˈkleft
wefte
weft

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD-LEFT

hard-edge
hard-edged
hard-faced
hard-fought
hard-hat
hard-headed
hard-headedly
hard-headedness
hard-hit
hard-hitting
hard-luck story
hard-mouthed
hard-nosed
hard-on
hard-packed snow
hard-pressed
hard-sell
hard-set
hard-shell
hard-shell clam

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD-LEFT

aleft
antileft
cleft
copyleft
eyes left
far left
far-left
hard left
left
loony left
outside-left
stage left
to the left
ultra-left

Synonyms and antonyms of hard-left in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hard-left» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD-LEFT

Find out the translation of hard-left to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard-left from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard-left» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

硬左
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

extrema izquierda
570 millions of speakers

English

hard-left
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कड़ी मेहनत से बाएं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يساري متشدد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ярой левой
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

duro - esquerda
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হার্ড-বাম
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la gauche dure
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Keras-kiri
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hard- links
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ハード左
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

하드 왼쪽
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kiwa-tengen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cứng lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடின இடது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हार्ड डावीकडून
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sert sol
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

hard- sinistro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

trudno lewo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

затятою лівій
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tare - stânga
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ακρο-αριστερό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hard - links
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hård vänster
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hard- venstre
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard-left

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD-LEFT»

The term «hard-left» is regularly used and occupies the 62.924 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD-LEFT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard-left

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD-LEFT»

Discover the use of hard-left in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard-left and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Hard Left: Straight Talk about the Wrongs of the Right
A rebuttal of the conservative right presents a wide range of racial, political, social, and economic issues from a liberal perspective
Tavis Smiley, 1996
2
Hard Left
Hard Left is the coming-of-age story of Cody Calhoun.
Bruce Kirkpatrick, 2007
3
Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed ...
In June of that year, before thirty-two thousand fans at New York's Polo Grounds, a hard left hook from Patterson put Ingemar Johansson on the canvas for the first time in his career.Another left hook put him out. The kind-hearted Patterson was ...
Jack Cashill, 2006
4
The Labour Party Since 1979: Crisis and Transformation
Perhaps the major single factor responsible for the decline of the hard left was the succession of electoral defeats. Since the Party entered the 1983 election on what was widely (if not entirely accurately) seen as a 'Bennite' manifesto, ...
Eric Shaw, 2002
5
The Mixing Engineer's Handbook, Second Edition
Likewise, as a result of the vast array of stereo and pseudostereo sources and effects that arrived on the market over the years, mixers began to pan these sources hard left and right as a matter of course. Because the mixer's main task is to ...
David Gibson, 2006
6
The Latham Diaries
But the Hard Left wants to get Jennie George into Federal Parliament and sees Throsby as the logical place to do it. Another factional and subfactional mess to be sorted out by the power- brokers. Leo and Della Bosca have backed me inside ...
Mark Latham, 2005
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Discipline and Discord in the Labour Party: The Politics of ...
Hattersley declared, 'who believe that socialism actually stands for something that can be defined naturally insist that it must be defended against both external aggression and internal subversion'.53 The stance of the hard left was equally ...
Eric Shaw, 1988
8
Home Recording For Musicians For Dummies
... settings in the following list: ✓ Lead vocals: Lead vocals are usually panned directly in the center. ✓ Backup vocals: Because backup vocals are often recorded in stereo, they are panned hard left and hard right. If you recorded only one track ...
Jeff Strong, 2011
9
Sociology in America: A History
The smaller of the two groups constituted what I will call a “hard left,” with Marxists the numerically and intellectually dominant segment of this formation. The second and far larger group represented what I will call sociology's “soft left.” These ...
Craig Calhoun, 2008
10
The Case Against Israel's Enemies: Exposing Jimmy Carter and ...
Many radicals of both the hard left and the hard right tend to hate Israel.1 This is not the only thing the hard left and the hard right have in common. They both have a tendency toward knee-jerk, superficial, hate-filled scapegoating. Historically ...
Alan Dershowitz, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD-LEFT»

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1
Tony Blair holds secret meetings with new Labour MPs - Telegraph
Mr Burnham also left the door open for putting Jeremy Corbyn, his hard-Left leadership rival, in the shadow cabinet if he became leader by ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
As Greece bows to creditors, defiance turns to despair in Athens …
Not surprisingly, hard-left factions within Syriza have rejected the principles of the bailout agreement signed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»
3
Labour's Jeremy Corbyn angered by C4 questions about terrorist …
Hard-left Labour leadership contender Jeremy Corbyn flew into a rage on live TV last night after being grilled over why he described banned ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
Chris Moncrieff: Osborne sets himself up for Tory leadership battle …
He is alarmed, apparently, that hard-left candidate Jeremy Corbyn may be creeping up on him as the race continues. I wonder whether those ... «Western Morning News, Jul 15»
5
Mockingbird Evolution, Greek Revolution, 50 Cent Solution & Other …
Deal With It: Besides the hard-left Syriza, nobody seems to have harsher words for the Greek/Euro deal than New York Times economics ... «Pulse, Jul 15»
6
Hillary Clinton shows she's really a liberal on economics - Vox
But as she laid out her economic vision in a Monday speech that rejected Republican theories without embracing hard-left policies, Clinton did ... «Vox, Jul 15»
7
Hollande claims Greek deal credit as critics snipe from left and right …
Hard-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon said that Greece had agreed to the deal "with a gun to its head". "The German government ... is ... «RFI, Jul 15»
8
David Cameron must act like Margaret Thatcher over the unions …
Speaking at the Durham Miners' Gala at the weekend, Len McCluskey, the unashamedly hard-Left leader of the huge Unite union, made no ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
9
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Greece's defeat and a lesson for Britain …
Indeed, barely a week after they voted by a thumping majority to reject the terms of a bailout offer, their hard-Left prime minister has settled for a ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
10
MLK's Response to a Boy With Same-Sex Attraction
Even so, in recent decades, sadly, and in what amounts to a sort of soft racism, a mostly white, hard-left movement of secular extremists has ... «Charisma News, Jul 15»

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