• the Bangladeshi filmmaker Alamgir Kabir was imprisoned by Ayub Khan for being a leftist?
• Mitsuyo Seo, the director of Japan's first feature length anime, Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors, a World War II propaganda film, was earlier arrested and tortured as a leftist?

Facts on topics related to Leftist

Japanese government

• Harvard Japanologist Susan Pharr was recently awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government?

Communist Party USA

• a park in Seattle is named after Terry Pettus, a onetime Communist whose conviction for conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government was overturned by the Supreme Court?
• Robert Meeropol, son of Communists Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was adopted by "Strange Fruit" lyricist Abel Meeropol following the Rosenbergs' execution for espionage?
• historian Maurice Isserman, known for books on the Communist Party USA and the New Left, has refocused on the history of mountaineering in the Himalayas?
• the 1939 cantata "Ballad For Americans" by John La Touche and Earl Robinson was performed that year at both the Republican National Convention and that of the American Communist Party?
• the Communist League of America was formed after some members of the Communist Party USA were expelled for Trotskyism?