A string of Left-wingers have rallied behind a Parliamentary motion lodged by Labour’s Elaine Smith hailing the late Cuban communist dictator as an “icon of socialism”.
Her party’s deputy leader Alex Rowley was among those who came under fire for backing the call.
Central Scotland MSP Ms Smith ignores Castro’s decades of human rights abuses and the thousands executed after the cigar-smoking revolutionary seized power in 1959. Express.
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