''‘Can I just point out,’ Hannah Jane Parkinson wrote
in a widely shared tweet during the Conservative Party Conference,
‘that Theresa May is wearing a bracelet of Frida Kahlo, a member of the
Communist party who LITERALLY DATED TROTSKY.’ The Telegraph, though not without making a joke of it, pointed out
some of the similarities between the prime minister and the late
Mexican artist: their feminism, for example, and their fortitude. Any
reference to communism must surely have been a ‘pointed message’ to
Jeremy Corbyn, whom the paper styled as an apologist for Trotsky.
Kahlo, a lifelong member of the Communist Party, was for many years
ignored by the art historians who revered the political murals of..''
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