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Wreaths are laid at the Glasgow ceremony
WORKERS and their unions marked International Workers’ Memorial Day at ceremonies across Britain and around the world today.
Every year on April 28 the labour and trade union movement remembers the deaths of thousands of workers killed in needless accidents and the many more who die from avoidable work-related illnesses.
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak said: “In the last year alone, 135 people went to work and never came home again. They died from fatal injuries while doing their jobs.
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LYNNE WALSH reports from last weekend’s moving remembrance of the International Brigades in London’s Jubilee Gardens where anti-fascists gathered to hear how even in the darkest of times we can build a vision of a better tomorrow, as the Brigaders fought to do 89 years ago