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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - November
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Clarion Soup
Van - dispensing soup and socialism from the 1890s. |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| also in this month 1644: Parliamentary forces recapture Liverpool from Royalists (1st) 1781: 133 slaves thrown overboard from Liverpool-owned slave-ship Zong. Outcry boosts abolition campaign (29th) 1908: Liverpool Anarchist Communist Sunday School opens in Toxteth Co-operative Hall (Smithdown Road) 1988: Benjamin Zephaniah publishes poems ‘Inna Liverpool’ 1995: Women of the Waterfront formed to support men in docks dispute |
1 2004: First Homotopia, Liverpool’s
current gay festival 1988: Margaret Simey, radical Labour councillor, wins North of England Portico literary prize for Democracy Rediscovered (about police accountability) |
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| 10 1913: Liverpool-born John
Archer elected Britain’s first black mayor, in Battersea 1988: Bernadette McAliskey, Irish republican, addresses public meeting in Liverpool |
11 1921: Unemployed workers demonstration at Armistice Day parade | 12 | 13 1983: Capenhurst Peace Camp set up at British Nuclear Fuels plant | 14 1984: Black Caucus disrupts City Council over appointment of Sam Bond as race relations adviser | 15 | 16 1985: Plaque unveiled to 27
Merseyside volunteers who died fighting for the republic in the Spanish
civil war 1986/7: Pete Townshend opens Pinball Wizard recording studios |
| 17 1922: Hunger march arrives in London | 18 | 19 1983: 20,000 march to support City Council’s claim for return of grant money withdrawn by Tory national government | 20 2000: Greenpeace halt GM soya mill on Gladstone dock | 21 | 22 1885: Irish Home Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell addresses crowd on St George’s Plateau, then declines to stand for Liverpool Parliamentary seat | 23 |
| 24 1997: Striking Liverpool
dockers occupy cranes on Cardiff waterfront 1998: Monument to victims of Great Irish Famine unveiled by Irish President Mary McAleese at St Luke’s |
25 1969: John Lennon returns MBE to Buckingham Palace | 26 | 27 | 28 1974: One-day general strike in support of jailed pickets ‘Shrewsbury 2’ | 29 1996: Greenpeace occupy dockyard
cranes to prevent imports of GM soya beans
more info 1980: Over 100,000 join national TUC march to the Pier Head against unemployment |
30 1988: Gifford inquiry declares Liverpool racism ‘uniquely horrific’ |