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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

"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

She was a Trotskyist who attended meetings of the Young People’s Socialist League, if only because she enjoyed the company of the “smartest people around.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2019

His mother was a psychoanalyst; his father a filmmaker who became involved in Trotskyist politics, which put the family in danger after Argentina’s military coup, when Hernán was 2.

From New York Times • May 2, 2018