JEREMY CORBYN posed for snaps on holiday in Mexico just yards from the a shrine to a slain Russian revolutionary.

The hard-left Labour chief socialised with lefty pals on the same street where red Leon Trotsky, a key pioneer of the Russian revolution, was murdered.

2 Jeremy Corbyn posing near Trotsky's home with his wife Laura and two left-wing academics

Mr Corbyn was seen in pictures outside a restaurant near the Leon Trotsky House and Communism museum in Mexico City, Guido Fawkes reported.

The original "Trot" lived at the house in the year before he was assassinated in 1940 after being exiled from Russia in 1929.

The museum was set up to honour the tyrant murdered by agents of Soviet dictator Stalin with an ice pick.

In 1988 Mr Corbyn demanded the Russian government “completely rehabilitate” Trotsky, who as head of the Red Army orchestrated the bloody slaughter of the Russian Civil War.

2 The Soviet revolutionary fled to exile in Mexico before being killed by Stalin

The Labour boss supports far-left regimes including Venezuela and Cuba, as well as being a fan of Soviet leaders.

He was pictured on Twitter at the airport on Christmas Day with his Mexican wife Laura Alvarez heading for the sunshine.

Today a Labour spokesman declined to comment on reports that Mr Corbyn had visited the shrine as part of his 11-day holiday.

On Thursday Irma Eréndira Sandoval, a left-wing Mexican politician, posted a snap of Mr Corbyn taken just metres from the house.

En 2018 México y UK demostrarán a los pueblos que otra forma de gobernar es posible. Un verdadero lujo reunirnos hoy en #Coyoacán con el futuro Primer Ministro del Reino Unido, @jeremycorbyn un gran amigo de México, de la democracia, la justicia y de @lopezobrador_ #MORENA pic.twitter.com/eqKQ1QoCFh — Irma Eréndira Sandoval B. (@Irma_Sandoval) January 4, 2018

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She added: “A real luxury to meet today in Coyoacán with the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Jeremy Corbyn, a great friend of Mexico, democracy, justice, and Lopez Obrador.”

And she tweeted a picture of a Christmas card written by the couple in Spanish, wishing her a happy New Year, an excellent 2018 and “victory for the Mexican people”.

Mr Corbyn came under fire after he tweeted several times about the NHS crisis, only for it to emerge he had not yet returned from his winter break.

Labour sources said they expected the party chief back at his desk on Monday.