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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - April
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Reclaim the
Night demonstration. Women protest for safer streets (6 April
1979). |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1987: First Mutual Aid Centre
opens in Victoria Street in what is now Millennium House more
info 1922: National Union of Dock Labourers amalgamated into Transport and General Workers' Union |
2 | 3 | 4 1978: First meeting of Merseyside Anti-Racialist Alliance | 5 | 6 1979: First Merseyside ‘Reclaim the Night’. Women march through city centre | |
| 7 | 8 2005: Friends of Palestine
picket Caterkiller’s Perkin plant in Irlam 2005: Train drivers refuse to cross picket line, bringing Merseyrail to a halt on Aintree weekend more info |
9 | 10 1982: Kirkby Unemployed Centre opens | 11 1976: First event of Liberty Hall, alternative social club | 12 | 13 1962: Pat Arrowsmith of CND arrested at dockside meeting on nuclear disarmament |
| 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 1996: Blockades of Princes Avenue begin after child is run over | 18 | 19 1989: Boycott of Sun newspaper begins after it vilifies Liverpool fans at Hillsborough stadium tragedy more info | 20 |
| 21 | 22 | 23 1919: Protest march by unemployed (demobilised) soldiers | 24 | 25 1919: Arnold Yates, bookseller, arrested for leafleting sailors advocating revolution | 26 1988: Kirkby Response Theatre formed | 27 1983: One-day city-wide strike against privatisation |
| 28 2001: Builders union UCATT unveils memorial to victims of construction industry | 29 1872: 8,000 carters strike (one week) for better wages | 30 1996: Los Angeles dockers
shut terminal in solidarity with Liverpool dock strike 1920: 20,000 dockers strike to secure release of Irish republicans from Wormwood Scrubs prison more info |
Also in this month 1944: Merseyside Left Theatre (MLT) becomes Unity Theatre 21st 1985: School students’ strikes against Youth Training Scheme (YTS) 'slave labour' start with 14 arrested in Kirkby. 10,000 march through the city on 25th April 2004: Welsh Streets Homes Group set up to oppose demolition of homes in the ten ‘Welsh Streets’ in Liverpool 8 |
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