left wing

left wing
    n 1: those who support varying degrees of social or political or
         economic change designed to promote the public welfare
         [syn: {left}, {left wing}]
    

left wing \left wing\ n.
   Those trying to reform the established order, particularly in
   political matters, to enhance the condition of the common
   people; -- sometimes applied to those advocating overthrow of
   an existing government by radical means.

   Syn: left, left wing, leftists, political left.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

37 Moby Thesaurus words for "left wing":
      Gospel side, cantorial side, counterclockwise, larboard, left,
      left hand, left of center, left-hand, left-hand side, left-winger,
      left-wingish, leftism, leftist, levorotatory, liberal, liberalism,
      liberalist, liberalistic, near, near side, nigh, on the left, port,
      port tack, portside, progressive, progressivism, progressivistic,
      radical, sinister, sinistral, sinistrocerebral, sinistrocular,
      sinistrogyrate, sinistrorse, verso, wrong side