The study is aimed at determining the instrumental potential of the left political agenda as a technology of manipulation and communication influence in modern public politics. The author comes to the conclusion that leftist movements in Western Europe and North America often have political interests, and some political actors use them to their advantage to change the media, social, political and economic landscape. The media constructs of the left political agenda are used to reduce the level of diversity and complexity of the object of management, to form the content of public policy, to construct the surrounding world of citizens, including electoral procedures and the perception of democracy. Education and critical thinking skills are becoming increasingly important in the fight against manipulation and propaganda. The author substantiates the current direction of the information and communication impact carried out in Western countries by the values of political elites. The methodological basis of the work was the work of S.V. Volodenkov, J. Ellul and J. Ritzer, as well as other works of leading foreign and Russian scientists. In the course of the study, general scientific methods were used, such as scientific observation, system analysis, comparison, abstraction and the historical method.
