What is "leftie"

Usage examples of "leftie".

So I found out his name, and I asked one of my tame paranoid leftie journos if he could find out what the guy did, and it came back that he specialises in labour subversion.

Sheldrake, had got a Fourth in History and was only chosen for his present post because he was a member of the Freemasons, or that the yapping little cocker spaniel of a man who tried to teach us football had been dismissed from a job at Borstal for suspected buggery and even and this was a story which lasted with considerable embellishments throughout the whole of one long, wet summer term that the angry string bean of a man who taught us French had been a close friend of Burgess and Maclean and lived in daily terror of being arrested as an old Cambridge leftie and still-active Soviet spy.

Say if Fine was a Leftie back in university, but now he meets his old cronies, Palestinian sympathizers even, and antagonizes them with common sense?

He was a bit of a Leftie when he was in college, that sort of thing.