Taiwan independence Left

The Taiwan independence Left (台獨左派) are the leftist political and economic ideologies of the participants in the radical Taiwan independence movement, which favored left-wing nationalism, anti-imperialism, socialism (mainly social democracy or Trotskyism) and progressivism.

The Taiwan Statebuilding Party, the New Power Party, the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party Taiwan, and the Taiwan Obasang Political Equality Party and others are left-wing parties that support Taiwan independence. The International Socialist Forward is a revolutionary socialist (Trotskyist) political organization that supports Taiwanese independence. Some of the Taiwan Independence Left collaborate with the main moderate Taiwanese nationalist Democratic Progressive Party and others distance themselves.

History
Today's main Taiwanese nationalist movements have been bent on anti-communism and pro-Americanism to oppose Chinese imperialism, but historically, Taiwanese nationalist movements have adopted national liberation concepts derived from Marxism and Leninism to resist Japanese colonial rule and KMT dictatorship.

Taiwan under Japanese rule
There were left-leaning political parties for Taiwan independence, such as the Taiwanese Communist Party during the period of Taiwan under Japanese rule. The Taiwan independence movement under Japan was supported by Mao Zedong in the 1930s as a means of freeing Taiwan from Japanese rule, but he changed this position only after the Nationalists started claiming Taiwan with the Cairo Declaration. Su Beng and Lee Teng-hui were members of the Chinese Communist Party in the late 1940s, and there was also a short-lived radical leftist party called the Taiwan Revolutionary Party in the 1980s.

Taiwan under Republic of China rule
Taiwan independence activists and leftists have been the main victims of "white terror" by the Kuomintang-led ROC government in the past.

The Democratic Progressive Party was left-wing in its early days, but it turned to a moderate and practical Taiwanese nationalist party; The DPP does not support strict left-wing views on labor issues, and supports Huadu rather than radical Taiwanese independence.

The 2014 Sunflower Student Movement is often considered a progressive social movement; this was seen as an opposition to the Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement, which was then promoted by the Ma Ying-jeou government and perceived as "pro-China" and neoliberal policy.