The Leftist Electoral Alliance () or Left () was an electoral alliance of Marxist–Leninist, Maoist and

Trotskyist Trotskyism (, ) is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Russian revolutionary and intellectual Leon Trotsky along with some other members of the Left Opposition and the Fourth International. Trotsky described himself as an ...

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Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

. It was formed by the Communist Initiative, the Socialist Left Party, the League of the Socialist Revolution, and other communist organisations and activists to contest the 2008 legislative election. The Communist Party of Austria was invited to participate, but it stated that the timeframe was too short and that it would stand on its own instead, while supporting the unification of the left in principle.

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