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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - August
 |
March through city centre led by the Liverpool
8 Defence Committee (15 August 1981) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Also in this month 1960: 2000 seamen march in support of jailed Paddy Neary (24th) 1987: Dockers refuse to handle Namibian uranium 1995: Social workers in care homes strike (16th) 1995: Fire-fighters strike action over job cuts (lasts 9 months) 1910: Robert Tressell, author of Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, moves to Liverpool |
1 | 2 1982: Michael Heseltine pelted after meeting at occupied Croxteth Comprehensive School | 3 | |||
| 4 1995: Postal workers from Liverpool organise three lorry loads of ‘Aid for Bosnia’ | 5 1976: Des Warren, Shrewsbury picket, released from prison | 6 | 7 | 8 1919: 955 striking Liverpool police officers dismissed | 9 2006: ‘Red Card for Israel’ given out as LFC play Maccabi Haifa | 10 |
| 11 1912: 60,000 attend Sheil Park rally to mark first anniversary of Bloody Sunday | 12 | 13 1911: Liverpool’s Bloody
Sunday – police attack transport strike rally, injuring hundreds 1960: Warrants were sworn out for the arrest of the Liverpool leaders of the National Seamen’s’ Reform Movement for ‘intimidation’ 1985: Law Centre meeting calls for Sam Bond to go |
14 1911: Liverpool General Strike declared | 15 1981: Liverpool 8 Defence
Committee demonstration against Chief Constable 1911: 3000 attack prison vans in aftermath of Bloody Sunday two days earlier (15th/16th) 1992: 500 years of indigenous, black and popular resistance – rally and festival |
16 1960: One-day dock strike
in support of seamen’s dispute 1989: 200 Bootle residents support dockers, who refuse to handle toxic chemical (PCB) cargo from Montreal |
17 1920: Council of Action formed to oppose war with Russia, there is a Birkenhead equivalent on the 18th |
| 18 1823: Slave uprising on estate of John (father of William) Gladstone in Demerara | 19 1995: Fire-fighters one-day actions turn into a nine-month strike | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 1960: Paddy Neary, Liverpool seaman jailed during seamen’s strike more info | 24 1880: Mass meeting in the
Trades Hall to condemn racism 2004: Childcare social workers strike (till Jan 2005) |
| 25 1775: Seamen’s Revolt: Water Street prison stormed, inmates released | 26 | 27 | 28 1920: Printers strike stops Daily Post and Echo for three weeks | 29 | 30 1960: Massive demo to support
jailed seaman Paddy Neary called by the Trades Council and Labour
Party 1775: Liverpool Seamens Revolt: 1,000 sailors bombard Town Hall with ships cannon |
31 2006: Fire-fighters strike against proposed cuts to services |