An activist campaigning for social justice, free healthcare, distrustful of bankers- no these sentiments don’t just originate in our day and age, they were in place in 1st century Judea by a 30 year old activist, itinerent rabbi.
In a really interesting (in my opinion anyways! 
) article in the New Statesman http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2010/12/jesus-god-tax-christ-health , Mehdi Hasan poses the question asked throughout history- Was Jesus Christ a lefty, and through examining his teachings from a political angle, displays the evidence that the Nazarene was indeed left wing, and that his statement “render unto caesar what is caesar’s” implies that if he were alive today, his ideas would probably find affinity with UK Uncut, the newly formed group protesting against tax avoidance.
Whilst not confessing to be particularly religious, I still think that Jesus’ core message of love, forgiveness, and his ideas about social justice have resonance for me as someone also of the left wing persuasion. Maybe even for those not religious, its worth re-examining the ‘historical’ Jesus, and the teachings minus the miracles and possibly adopt his ideals which have fueled further campaigners such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
I always knew left-ism was heaven sent!
He marches, for social justice,
To create a new world, he marches,
Though people hit his cheek,
Turning to the right, he marches,
To make those render to Caesar what is Caesar’s,
To cleanse the dens of thieves,
For 2000 years he has walked,
To the same footprints, to the same beat,
With the same passion to fight corruption in his breast,
He marches on,
No longer alone, together WE MARCH ON!
