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Netanyahu snubs Pope’s funeral in Rome

by New Worker correspondent

World leaders gather in Rome to attend the funeral of Pope Francis whose final message before his death on Easter Monday was a call to end the fighting in Gaza. But no Israeli ministers will join the mourners when the Pope is laid to rest. The Zionist state will be represented only by its ambassador to the Vatican – the lowest level of representation possible.

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Room at the Top

by New Worker correspondent

It is all change at the top of shopworkers union USDAW. The union has appointed its first ever female general secretary, Joanne Thomas, presently the union’s North East regional secretary. The word “appointed” is used because there was no contest as she was only candidate to secure the necessary number of nominations. Exactly the same happened with the post of deputy general secretary where Rab Donnelly, regional secretary for the Southern Region, takes over from the hitherto unknown Dave McCrossen.

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Editorial

Our May Day…

On the first day of May we remember those dark days of old when workers fought against grasping employers who would have them work all day, every day but Sunday, for a miserable pittance of a wage. And though the origins of May Day go back to hallowed antiquity when it was a festival for the ancient gods, it has also always been a day for working people. We also remember the pioneers of the labour movement that built the unions in Britain and throughout the rest of the world that curbed the worst excesses of the employers and set up the First International that declared May Day an international working-class holiday in 1889.

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