The following is a list of left-wing political parties. It includes parties from the centre-left (social democrats, greens and sometimes social liberals) to the far and ultra left.
Famous quotes containing the words left-wing, political and/or parties:
“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)
“Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.”
—C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)
“Both parties are injured by what is going on at Washington. Both are, therefore, more and more disposed to look for candidates outside of that atmosphere.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)