Labour's anti-Corbyn faction is facing its second defeat in the space of a year, and many among its number are blaming it on the shade of Trotsky. Whether it is Owen Smith or John Mann complaining about a reflux of Militant, Tom Watson raising alarum about “Trotskyites”, or Dan Hodges belabouring “proto-Trotskyists . . . demanding a people's revolution”, the spectre of Communism haunts the Party establishment. And yet beyond the hyperbole, these fears have little substance.
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