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1 2004: Protest at council offices
over demolition plans for homes in the ‘Welsh Streets’ |
2 1983: Liverpool CND march in
Glasgow after demonstrating at Greenham Common the day before
more info |
3 1972: St Helens Plastics factory
occupied by workforce |
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6 1923: Labour wins first Liverpool
Parliamentary seat more info |
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8 1971: First Women’s Liberation
Movement celebrations
1890: Mercury reports that dock strike over union recognition ‘is
assuming alarming proportions’ |
9 2001: Kirkby Action Group marches
on Sonae factory more info |
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11 1972: Liverpool contingent
of Right to Work March arrives in London more
info |
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14 2003: First issue of Nerve
magazine more info |
15 1985: First Ford International
Workers Conference (held in the Adelphi Hotel) more
info |
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17 1937: Inaugural meeting of
Merseyside Left Theatre |
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20 2003: Central Liverpool blocked
by demonstrations as Iraq war begins more
info
1935: Publishers of James Hanley’s novel Boy prosecuted for
obscenity |
21 2003: ‘We all live
in a terrorist regime’ inscribed on Yellow Submarine tourist
landmark more info |
22 1984: Lancashire NUM vote
to join national miners strike |
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26 1848: Repealers and Chartists
hold public meeting supporting Irish independence |
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28 1987: Anti-Apartheid march
through city more info |
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30 1920: 20,000 dockers strike
to secure release of Irish republicans from Wormwood Scrubs prison
(this date should be 30 April) more
info |
31 2006: Over 2,000 demonstrate
against Condoleezza Rice visit more
info |
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Also in this month
1984: Formation of the country’s first support
group for the national miners strike
more info
1978: Ring Road Protest Group formed
more info
1986: Labour History Museum opened
1890: Three-week strike by dock labourers, coalheavers, dock foremen,
fruit porters and flatmen
1919: Agitation over level of women’s post-war unemployment
1968: Last Workhouse in Liverpool (Brownlow Hill) closed |