The Oh, Hello and welcome to Behind the News. My name is Doug Henwood. Two guests today, but

unusually, with a common theme, socialist women who won election to political office

as first-time candidates.

First, we'll hear from Margaret Corbett, who's been on this show several times before discussing

British politics generally, and who is elected in May to the City Council in Plymouth, England. And then after that Julia Salazar, who just won the Democratic primary for the New York State Senate in North Brooklyn, with the backing of the Democratic Socialist of America. Since she has no Republican opposition that means she's the

senator-elect, though I suppose that's not literally true yet. Margaret Corbett is

no stranger to behind the news. She's been on three times before, mostly to discuss

British politics, though she also did talk some

about her earlier career as a professional dominatrix. That previous engagement proved no

obstacle to her winning election in May to the City Council in Plymouth, England on the

Labour Party ticket. The electoral scene in Britain is rather different from

here. For one, Labour is headed by a serious left winger. Jeremy Corbyn, you

can't say the same for our Democrats, but still

Margaret Corvid's election is part of a left upsurge in that country and ours.

Here's Margaret Corvid to talk about her election, her new job, and the state of British politics.

You've been a political activist for a long time, but how did you decide to run for office?

I decided to run for office because Jeremy Corbett was elected leader of the Labor Party nationally and for the

first time I actually saw a politician who represented my socialist values at the highest points of power.

So I decided that standing for office would not just be great in its own right,

but also would support the message that he's trying to get across.

Over here after the Sanders campaign we saw a whole bunch of mostly younger people

and a lot of them women and not older white guys entering politics and running for office do you

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