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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - October 2010
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Suffragette-style protest at Labour HQ against the imposition of George Howarth as by-election candidate in October 1986. Photo: Kirkby Unemployed Centre |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1984: 40 Cammell Laird shipyard workers jailed in their absence for a month to end shipyard sit-in | 2 1948: Unity Theatre produce play 100 years hard as part of Liverpool Trades Council centenary | 3 1987: Demonstration for Namibian independence | ||||
| 4 1936: Merseyside Peace Week ends with 3,000-strong march | 5 1989: Building Brigades travel to Nicaragua | 6 1995: Ken Loach's film Land and Freedom about Liverpool volunteer in Spanish civil war | 7 1982: Everyman theatre stages Girls in the Pool, play based on council typists' 1981 strike | 8 2000: Formation of People Not Profit | 9 1972: Rent strikes begin in Kirkby and Birkenhead | 10 1937: Fascist rally at Queens Drive halted when Oswald Mosley is struck by a stone |
| 11 1936: Fascist march attacked at several points in city centre | 12 1991: Demonstration at Sefton Park statue of Columbus | 13 2005: First John Peel Day | 14 | 15 1980: Rooftop protest saves Bradmere Nursery in Bromborough | 16 1863: Packed meeting in Philharmonic Hall supports the North in American civil war | 17 |
| 18 1757: Anti-militia riot on day of Mayoral election closes city centre | 19 1936: 200 marchers leave Liverpool to join the Jarrow Hunger March to London | 20 | 21 | 22 1975: International Day of Action by rubber workers - 6,000 come out at Dunlops | 23 | 24 1983: Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Relax |
| 25 1947: Unity Theatre performs 'The Match Girls Strike', based on Bryant and May strike of 1889 |
26 1991: Liverpool 8 Law Centre organises march against police harassment | 27 | 28 1974: 'Petticoat Pickets' win women’s 17-week strike at Wingrove and Rogers electrical firm | 29 | 30 1987: Visit of Sam Nujoma, future (SWAPO) President of Namibia | 31 1982: First broadcast of Yosser's story, instalment of Boys from the Blackstuff |
 1987:
Liz Drysdale speaks out for Namibia (see 3rd) |
Also in this month... 1863: Liverpool Emancipation Society denounces John Laird for building the Alabama for the Confederates (30th) 1968: Abercromby tenants begin rent strike (lasts over eight months) 1981: Day-care Abortion Unit opens (Bradford clinic) after long campaign by women's rights groups |
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