4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks to everyone who helped. I think this is it. To my mind, socialisantes is what Americans call liberal, or a bit to the left of that, but I can't use the word liberal here because it would be confusing. (Incidentally, I'm thinking of translating the French word "libérales" as "liberal" and glossing it as "in the Continental sense of the word.") Given that "socialisantes" is followed by "franchement gauchisantes" I was inclined to write "socially concerned" for the first and "openly leftist" for the second. I'll go with socially-oriented."