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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - October
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Liverpool's 'Tatlin Tower' - Podium designed by Arthur Dooley, erected in 1973 at the Pier Head to commemorate workers' international struggles and 'disappeared' by Liverpool City Council in the early 1990s |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1987: Opening of first Black History Month | 2 1972: 3,000 march against council rent increases | 3 1987: Demonstration for Namibian independence | 4 1936: Merseyside Peace Week ends with a 3,000-strong march from St George’s Plateau to Sheil Park | 5 1989: Building Brigades travel to Nicaragua | ||
| 6 1995: Ken Loach's film Land and Freedom about Liverpool volunteer in Spanish civil war | 7 | 8 2000: Formation of People Not Profit | 9 1972: Kirkby rent strike begins (lasts 14 months) | 10 1984: Sit-in at city council
offices over appointment of Sam Bond as ‘race elations adviser’ 1937: Fascist rally at Queens Drive halted when Oswald Mosley is struck by a stone |
11 1936: Fascist march (soon after battle of Cable Street) attacked at several points in city centre | 12 1974: Arrest of Rick Walker
for BWNIC (British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Committee) for
issuing the leaflet 'Some information for discontented soldiers'.
Frank Keeney arrested soon after 1991: Demonstration at Sefton Park statue of Columbus |
| 13 2005: First John Peel Day | 14 | 15 1980: Rooftop protest saves Bradmere Nursery in Bromborough | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 1990: International Day of
Action against the Poll tax 1936: 200 marchers leave from Liverpool to join the Jarrow Hunger march to London |
| 20 | 21 | 22 1975: International Day of
Action by rubber workers – 6,000 come out at Dunlops 2005: Merseyside march against racism |
23 | 24 1947: Unity Theatre performs 'The Match Girls Strike', based on Bryant and May strike of 1889 | 25 As 24th | 26 1991: Liverpool 8 Law Centre organises march against police harassment |
| 27 | 28 1974: 'Petticoat Pickets' win women’s 17-week strike at Wingrove and Rogers electrical firm | 29 | 30 1987: Visit of Sam Nujoma, future President of Namibia | 31 | ||
| Also in this month 1859: Liverpool Tailors Association formed against sweated labour 1863: Liverpool Emancipation Society denounces John Laird for building the Alabama for the Confederates (30th) 1973: Liverpool Free Press publishes BWNIC (British Withdrawal from Northern Ireland Committee) 'Some information for discontented soldiers' leaflet 1973: One-day strike, including the docks, on the first day of trial of the Shrewsbury 24 1977: Seel St Women’s Centre closes (1st) 1981: Day-care Abortion Unit opens (Bradford Clinic) after long campaign by women’s right’s groups 1982: First showing of Boys from the Blackstuff (10th) 1984: Thirty-seven workers jailed for a month for participating in a legal sit-in at the Cammell Laird Shipyard (1st) |
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