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LABOUR leader Keir Starmer is backing a call by three unions for a nationwide one-minute silence next week to commemorate health workers killed by coronavirus.
The minute’s silence planned for next Tuesday has been proposed by Unison, the Royal College of Nursing and the Royal College of Midwives.
It will coincide with International Workers’ Memorial Day, an annual event remembering those who have lost their lives for work-related reasons.
![Tapestry of Picasso’s “Guernica” on a pro-Palestine demonstration in Brighton. The tapestry is the creation of a Brighton-based collective project involving artists and local peace, anti-fascist and pro-refugee groups [Pic: Cate-May Hann]](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2026-07/IMG_0912.JPG.webp?itok=R51Put6v)
From the battlefields of Spain to today’s campaigns for peace and justice, the spirit of the International Brigades continues to inspire international solidarity across the labour movement, says MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
![Harry Pollitt (right) with International Brigade volunteer David Guest, who was killed at the Ebro in July 1938 [Pic: Marx Memorial Library]](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2026-07/a-2_a_50b_Harry%20Pollitt_David_Guest.jpg.webp?itok=Ag0u-8n5)
ALEX GORDON applauds the leading role played by Harry Pollitt and the Communist Party in the fight against fascism in Spain and salutes the memory of the International Brigades
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled