The New Left Front is a left wing electoral coalition in Sri Lanka. It was founded in 1998 by the Nava Sama Samaja Party, former members of the People's Alliance, and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna. Its current members are: In politics, left-wing, political left, leftism, or simply the left, are terms that refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially but not exclusively in the American sense of the word... 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Nava Sama Samaja Pakshaya (New Social Equality Party) is a trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. ... The Peoples Alliance is the English name of several parties Spain The Peoples Alliance (in Spanish Alianza Popular) was a political party in Spain. ... The Peoples Liberation Front (Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna) is a Marxist Sri Lankan political party in Sri Lanka. ...
In the Sri Lankan presidential election, 2005, the New Left Front's candidate Chamil Jayaneththi came sixth of thirteen, with 9,296 votes. The Nava Sama Samaja Pakshaya (New Social Equality Party) is a trotskyist political party in Sri Lanka. ... Presidential elections in Sri Lanka were held on 17 November 2005. ...
The British NewLeft concentrated on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the hypocrisy of the Soviet Union and its allied countries.
The NewLeft opposed the prevailing authority structures in society, which it termed "The Establishment," and those who rejected this authority became known as "anti-Establishment." The NewLeft avoided recruiting industrial workers and concentrated on a social activist approach to organizing.
Loosely associated with the NewLeft was the Berkeley Free Speech Movement which began in 1964 as a coalition of student groups opposing restrictions to political activity on campus.
New Labour looks to economic development at the expense of all other concerns, but it is now faced with the dilemma of generating the image of economic competence and making headway in delivering the goals of social justice.
New Labour’s fiscal tightening, coupled with the waning commitment to redistribution, informs moves towards a “liberal,” partially means-tested, welfare state, and away from the inclusive universalism characteristic of social democratic conceptions of welfare (Clift 2001, 65).
New Labour’s reform of the welfare state is being motivated by Blair’s belief that “welfare needs of today are not being met by the welfare state of yesterday” (Annesley 2001, 206), and that the generous welfare systems traditionally put forward by social democratic parties “lock people in idleness and dependency” (Clift 2001, 65).
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