"We are all afraid of him": when Trotsky sought asylum in Britain
Picture: 27 November 1932, Trotsky speaking in Copenhagen at the invitation of Social Democratic students. His last public speech in front of a live audience. The words of the title were uttered by Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Prime Minister at a cabinet meeting in 1929. Leon Trotsky’s application for political asylum in Britain (1929-30)