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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - February
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Liverpool leg of the Right to Work March passes through Wigan (21 February 1972). See 19 Feb for more details |
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| Also this month 1841: School of Science opened in Socialist Hall in Lord Nelson Street more info 1949: Unity produce '100 years hard' to mark centenary of Trades Council more info 1969: Liverpool Free School opens 1971: Longest running strike starts at the Inland Revenue, ends August 1974 1975: Scotland Road Peoples Centre 'to open shortly' 1975: Three-month sit-in at Cammell Lairds more info |
1 1879: Three-week strike by 35,000 dockers and seamen over 10% reductions in wages more info | 2 | 3 1911: Robert Tressell, author of ‘Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’, dies in Royal Infirmary more info | |||
| 4 | 5 1953: City Council bans Unity
Theatre film show from Philharmonic Hall on political grounds
more info 1889: National Union of Dock Labourers formed in Glasgow. First Merseyside branch opened in Bootle in June more info |
6 1937: 18 volunteers from Merseyside die at the battle of Jarama, fighting for the Spanish Republic more info | 7 1975: 35 cleaners at MoD join trade union and lose their jobs | 8 | 9 1991: Mike Hill loses his life in anti-hunt protest | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 1986: Anti-Apartheid march
through city more info 2003: ‘Peace Train’ takes protestors to join over a million others demonstrating against plans to bomb Iraq |
16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 1863: 3,000-4,000 in Royal
Amphitheatre condemn slavery in support for North in American civil
war more info 1972: Liverpool contingent of Right to Work March leaves for London more info |
20 1855: Second day of Bread riots more info | 21 1967: Lucas shop stewards
lobby Parliament more info 1994: First Irish cultural and community festival |
22 | 23 1988: Dockers refuse to handle uranium mined in apartheid-ruled Namibia | 24 1969: First National Ford Strike more info |
| 25 2000: Greenpeace halt shipment of GM maize bound for Liverpool more info | 26 | 27 | 28 1984: 100,000 protest on Merseyside in support of GCHQ workers | 29 | ||
