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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - May
 |
'Bobbin Girls'
strike collection (4 May 1912) |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1974: News from Nowhere, radical
bookshop, opens 1981: Peoples March for Jobs leaves for London |
2 1989: Day two of three-day rooftop protest against prison conditions at Risley Remand Centre | 3 1926: General Strike begins, solid in Liverpool more info | 4 1912: Strike at Wilson's Bobbin Works, leading to the 'Garston Riots' more info | |||
| 5 1972: Glenn Pratt becomes first black City Councillor (Clubmoor Ward) | 6 1983: Labour wins majority on the City Council | 7 1949: Paul Robeson visits Liverpool and sings to 10,000 crowd in Lord Street more info | 8 1987: Liz Drysdale (Granby) & Judy Nelson (Smithdown) become first black women City Councillors | 9 2004: Friends of Palestine demonstrate outside Harold House against speaker Louise Ellman MP | 10 1981: Margaret Simey, radical Labour Councillor, appointed to chair Police Committee | 11 |
| 12 1984: ‘Women in White’ march to save Duchess Ward in Women’s Hospital | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 1966: Liverpool at forefront of national seamen’s strike (til 1 July) | 17 | 18 1832: Emigrant ship ’Brutus’ leaves Liverpool with cholera on board. Returns 18th June with 97 dead |
| 19 | 20 1839: 10,000 attend Chartist demonstration at Queens Square | 21 1919: Communist Mary Bamber wins Everton Ward for Labour more info | 22 1998: Superlambanana (satire on GM foods) sculpture unveiled | 23 2001: Refugees march in protest
at their conditions in Landmark tower block flats 1955: Dockers strike for recognition of the ‘Blue Union’ (lasts six weeks) |
24 1909: Anarchist-Communist Sunday School distribute leaflets denouncing Empire Day | 25 1955: Labour has absolute majority on the City Council for the first time |
| 26 1888: Inquiry report says Liverpool women are the worst paid in the country | 27 1993: Falkner Square plaque unveiled for black merchant seamen of World War II | 28 1842: Inspired by Kitty Wilkinson’s work since 1832 first public wash-house opened in Frederick St | 29 1832: Cholera riots directed against doctors dissecting cholera victims | 30 1981: Peoples March for Jobs arrives in London | 31 1999: Trees at Park Nook (Princes Park) occupied to stop developers | |
| Also in this month 1838: First Chartist public meeting in Queens Theatre 1873: Marble masons strike (2 months) 1889: Strike of sailors and stokers (till mid-July) 1934: First complete publication of James Hanley’s novel Boy (publishers later charged with obscenity) 1973: Liverpool’s Tatlin Tower (by Arthur Dooley) erected at Pier Head, commemorating workers’ international struggles 1983: Opening of Merseyside Trade Union Community Unemployed Resource Centre in Hardman Street 2001: Postal workers disciplined for refusing to break strike action in Watford |
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