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Simon ran for mayor of Chiclayo in 1983 as a member of United Left, an alliance of leftist parties in Peru founded in 1980 but did not win the elections.
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Nineteen Eighty-Four was published in 1949, but Orwell was first set on the road to it at least 12 years earlier when he was fighting Franco's insurgents in Spain as a member of a left-wing, but non-Stalinist militia, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM).
BBC: 1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia
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But what troubles Downing Street is that Mark Serwotka, who is due to become the union's general secretary and leader in June, cheerfully describes himself as being far left and a member of the Socialist Alliance.
ECONOMIST: Trade unions