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Roza Salih: the SNP’s left flank
Niall Christie speaks to ROZA SALIH about how her candidacy could help push Scotland’s ruling party in a socialist direction
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
NICOLA STURGEON doesn’t often find herself in second place. Since taking over as First Minister in 2014 she has led the SNP — according to my count — to victory in six consecutive elections, and has been a sitting MSP since 1999.
But heading into next week’s Scottish Parliamentary elections, there is one candidate who finds themselves ahead of the SNP leader — her party colleague and the lead list candidate for Glasgow, Roza Salih.
Since arriving in Scotland from Kurdistan as a child, Salih — now 31 — has made a name for herself as a strident defender of human rights and socialist values. While still a pupil, Salih was one of the well-known Glasgow Girls, who lobbied to stop the UK government carrying out dawn raids after seeing a schoolmate detained by the Home Office.
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