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APRIL 28 is a big day in the trade-union calendar. International Workers’ Memorial Day is when workers around the world unite to remember those killed at, or by, work and to organise in their memory.
Under normal circumstances I would perhaps be reflecting about many of the global incidents that you have read about in the pages of the Morning Star over the past year — of bad employers, dangerous working practices and persecuted trade unionists.
But while we do continue to reflect on those cases, these are far from normal circumstances.
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