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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - May 2010
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1926 and Now:
a look back at the General Strike that commanded strong support
on Merseyside. |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Also in this month... 1934: First complete publication of James Hanley's novel Boy (publishers later charged with obscenity) 1977: Sex Pistols release single God Save the Queen with cover artwork by Liverpool artist Jamie Reid (27th) 1981: Merseyside Hunger Strike Supporters Committee march to Pier Head in support of Irish hunger-striker Bobby Sands, who dies on 6th (2nd) |
1 1974: News from Nowhere, radical bookshop, opens | 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 1934: Clashes in streets as Oswald Mosley addresses fascist rally | 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 female 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Councillor, appointed to chair Police Committee | 11 1981: 10,000 strike at Fords to defeat new disciplinary code (withdrawn on 22nd) | 12 1984: 'Women in White' march to save Duchess Ward in Women's Hospital | 13 | 14 | 15 1969: Rent-striking Abercromby tenants join students in demo when Princess Alexandra visits University | 16 1966: Liverpool at forefront of national seamen's strike (till 1 July) |
| 17 | 18 1832: Emigrant ship 'Brutus' leaves Liverpool with cholera on board. Returns 18 June with 97 dead | 19 2009: Play Seven Jewish children peformed by Liverpool Network Theatre in Writing on the Wall festival | 20 1839: 15,000 attend Chartist demonstration at Queens Square | 21 1919: Communist, Mary Bamber, wins Everton Ward for Labour more info | 22 1998: Superlambanana sculpture (satire on GM foods) unveiled | 23 1955: Dockers six-week strike for recognition of the 'Blue Union' |
| 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 1984: Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Two Tribes | 29 1981: Liverpool Black Organisation occupy Caribbean Centre | 30 1981: People’s March for Jobs arrives in London |
| 31 1999: Trees at Park Nook (Princes Park) occupied to stop developers building luxury flats |  Detail
from The Triumph of Labour produced by Liverpool's Walter Crane
for Labour's first May Day rally on 2 May 1891 |
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