Or they could have said, as many of us on the democratic left would have preferred: "Yes!

He also continued to support the democratic left in Eastern Europe, and was a member of the advisory board of the Novi Plamen magazine.

It has a left of centrist position, social democratic in name.

This is not El Salvador or Guatemala, which never had democracy, but a place where the democratic left could get elected.

For most of the 1930s and '40s the democratic left dominated Chilean politics, and government intervention in the economy through Corfo, the state development corporation, became increasingly important.

Nonetheless, only the radical democratic left was willing to use force to support the constitution, notwithstanding their original reservations against it.

"The democratic left in Latin America was becoming alienated by Venezuela's militaristic language."

Today even the traditional mass-membership parties of the democratic left (Social Democrats or workers' parties) raise less than a quarter of their funds from the grassroots.

It marked a decisive break by the democratic left from its 1930s alliance with the CP.

And the social democratic left has adopted this principle.