While I do not doubt the integrity of Frank Campbell and Bruce Kent as apostles of the political resurrection of Jeremy Corbyn (Letters, 22 August), those of us who have followed Corbyn and his fellow travellers on the broad front of the ultra-left remember well their enthusiasms in the late 1980s. A shortlist would include campus campaigns against Lord (David) Alton’s moderate abortion reforms and for abortion on demand until the day of birth; infiltration of mainstream Labour groups in pursuit, for example, of National Union of Students’ affiliation to Irish Republican causes; not to mention criticism of the ANC and Nelson Mandela for being inadequately “radical” or “proletarian”. The moment a Corbyn victory was announced, the Tory Reform Group, on th