The pro-Stalin communist forces in Spain turned on the POUM, branding them Trotskyist traitors.

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In Rio Grande, its Trotskyist radicals run the state party and will have a big role in the new government.

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These parties matter: in 2002 Arlette Laguiller, a Trotskyist, and Olivier Besancenot, a Revolutionary Communist, took 10% between them.

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While Mr Jospin, ex-Trotskyist turned pragmatist, was prime minister, from 1997 until May this year, the struggle was hidden.

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As prime minister between 1997 and 2002 Lionel Jospin, himself an ex-Trotskyist, privatised more assets than any of his right-wing predecessors.

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But it's an acute dilemma for many who really want to vote for the cute-faced and engaging 32-year-old Trotskyist postman, Olivier Besancenot.

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His main rival, Dilma Rousseff (from Lula's Workers' Party), was a Trotskyist.

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In the 1980s, he says, when Militant, a Trotskyist faction within the Labour Party, ruled city hall and even the 1990s, when memories of this period were sharp, such an investment would have been unthinkable.

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The corpse of Soviet Communism had barely cooled at the time, and our talk wandered from the causes of its demise to the radicalism of New York intellectuals in the nineteen-thirties and forties the Communists, their fellow-travellers, their socialist and Trotskyist enemies and thence to the curious ways in which the influence of those lingering enmities is still felt.

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