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Battersby was also an active member of the Workers’ Revolutionary party, a Trotskyist communist group in England.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2024

Fraser was a Trotskyist — meaning she supported the aims of Leon Trotsky, who allied with Lenin in an attempt to stop Stalin’s rise to power.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

"Trotskyist," in the Russian vernacular imagination, still signifies renegades, rebels, internal dissidents and exiled radicals, individualists and intellectuals.

From Salon • Feb. 26, 2023

At a café in Arras, I shared a table with Nicole Giraud, a retired substitute teacher with a stack of Trotskyist magazines under her arm.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2022

There are Soviet agents and Trotskyist agitators, a cross-dressing jazz singer, an Armenian mafia boss and a rich industrialist in cahoots with a group of army officers.

From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017