The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word SOCIALIST
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SOCIALIST
- One in party with those left of centre in state?
- . Politician who’s left party first
- One in party with foremost of Soviet Trotskyites?
- Convivial? It’s possibly not Corbyn’s idea of Blair?
- Red silica’s almost too awful
- Left-winger, stoical, is thrown out
- Left-winger is embraced by stoical revolutionary
- Left-wing party is beginning to threaten
- Left-winger, thus, put on US agents’ record
- One with a political belief that’s not right
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The straight part
We know that "Left-winger" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case left-winger = socialist.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SOCIALIST mean?
SOCIALIST noun- One who practices or advocates socialism.
- Of, promoting, practicing, or characteristic of socialism.