The left’, or to be fair the voices that dominate the far left in politics and culture, became a regressive force after the Cold War. Its leaders allied with and excused regimes that were the enemies of socialism, feminism and liberalism: Iran, Saddam’s Iraq, Milosevic’s Serbia, Putin’s Russia, and Hamas and other clerical fascist versions of Islam.

 

 

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/01/corbyns-far-left-has-much-in-common-with-trump-and-the-brexit-right/