Sentence:  The debate around 'popular alliances' has come to the forefront of left debate in Britain and it has been suggested that this is giving rise to a radical re-alignment of the left; on the one side groupings devoted to a British 'historic compromise' of popular forces and movements (Eurocommunists in the Communist Party, the Labour Co-ordinating Committee, sections of the women's movement, etc.); on the other side an alliance of old Trotskyist far left, the Labour Party <WSD>hard left</WSD> and sectarians within the Communist Party which is committed to an alliance against monopoly capitalled by the (male) industrial working class 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The section of the left wing that supports traditional socialist policies, distinguished from the social democratic centre left and the communist and anarchist far left.