Nerve 11 - Merseyside Resistance Calendar

Merseyside Resistance Calendar - June

Liverpool-born Jim Larkin (who inspired workers on both sides of the Irish Sea) with National Union of Dock Labourers. Painting by David Jaques in the Newz Bar, Water Street

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
						1 1984: First Merseyside Latin American festival
2	3 1979: Formation of Liverpool Black Organisation (LBO) - this was effectively the first organisation of Liverpool black people 1889: Seamen's strike in Liverpool until 13 July	4	5 1919: Charles Wootton, 24-year-old black Liverpudlian, chased by white crowd and drowned in Queens Dock	6	7 1997: Last event at the Irish Centre on Mount Pleasant 1931: Africa Churches Mission opens on Hill Street	8
9 1972: First international strike action begins in Liverpool and Italy against Dunlop-Pirelli 1983: General election – Labour wins 5 out of 6 Liverpool seats - for 1st time in 20th century no Tory MPs represent Liverpool	10 1881: Irish republicans try to blow up Town Hall	11 2001: Refugees go on hunger strike over appalling conditions in Landmark flats	12 1992: First Africa Oye music festival	13 2001: Merseyside Against Detention formed to protest against jailing of asylum seekers	14 1911: Seaman initiate Liverpool General Transport strike 1832: ‘Brutus’ arrives back in Liverpool with 97 dead from cholera on board	15
16 1997: Rooftop protest to protect Irish Centre on Mount Pleasant 1984: Merseyside International Feminist Bookfair held at Central Hall, Renshaw St	17 1823: John Finch founds Socialist Hall in Lord Nelson Street 1937: Merseyside Left Theatre affiliates to Left Book Club Theatre Guild	18 1937: Merseyside Left Theatre Group perform Spanish civil war plays ‘Guernica’ and ‘Spain’ 1896: First ‘Clarion’ women’s van distributes ‘soup and socialism’	19 1890: Women bookfolders and stitchers win reduction of working day to ten hours	20 (18-25th) 1937: Basque refugee children (from Spanish civil war) welcomed in Liverpool and Birkenhead	21 1992: Communities of Resistance conference marks 500 years of conquest 1980: Jimmy Kelly dies in police custody after being arrested	22
23 1913: 2,000 Farm workers from Speke to Scarisbrick strike for better conditions 1999: Garden Festival Campaign formed to preserve river frontage from development of more luxury housing	24 1996: Formation of James Larkin Republican Flute Band	25 1979: Third day of first week-long Liverpool Gay Pride celebrations 1994; March against racial terrorism by Campaign Against Police Abuse of Powers	26	27 1904:The ‘Secret in the Stone’ laid in the Anglican Cathedral foundations by Fred Bower and Jim Larkin 1905: Dock strike in Liverpool led by James Sexton and James Larkin (Eric Taplin) 1987: Granby Festival Against Apartheid	28	29
30 1998: First meeting of revived Liberty Hall				Also in this month 1848: Disturbance papers at Home office state that a special watch needs to be kept on Liverpool 1889: Liverpool tramwaymen's agitation for better working conditions. Liverpool Amalgamated Tramway and Hackney Carriage Employees Association formed but collapses 19 January 1890 1984: City Council defies government and sets an 'illegal budget' to maintain services. 47 councillors are later surcharged (23rd)

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