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Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
Plaque
to commemorate the three-month strike of 1975 |
1 |
2 1982: Michael Heseltine pelted
after meeting at occupied Croxteth Comprehensive School |
3 |
4 1995: Postal workers from Liverpool
organise three lorryloads of 'Aid for Bosnia' |
5 1976: Des Warren, Shrewsbury
picket, released from prison |
6 2008: Parents Against Closure
demonstrate against plans to close Croxteth Comprehensive |
7 1911: 1,000 railway goods
porters strike. Other transport workers come out in support |
8 1989: Dockers vote to turn
away toxic PCB cargo due to arrive from Montreal. Local residents
support (demo on 16th) |
9 2006: 'Red Card for Israel'
given out as Liverpool FC play Maccabi Haifa |
10 |
11 1912: 60,000 attend Sheil
Park rally to mark first anniversary of Bloody Sunday |
12 |
13 1911: Liverpool's Bloody
Sunday - police attack transport strike rally, injuring hundreds |
14 1839: Chartist petition presented
to Parliament with 20,689 Liverpool and 8,000 Birkenhead signatures |
15 1981: Liverpool 8 Defence
Committee demonstration against Chief Constable |
16 1995: Social workers in care
homes strike |
17 1920: Council of Action formed
to oppose war with Russia |
18 1823: Slave uprising on estate
of John (father of William) Gladstone in Demerara |
19 1995: Firefighters' one-day
actions turn into a nine-month strike |
20 2009: Strike by baggage-handlers
at Liverpool airport |
21 |
22 1889: 40 Liverpool dockers
are lured to London to break the dock strike there but refuse to do
so |
23 1913: Suffragettes set fire
to Seafield House, causing £80,000 damage |
24 1960: 2000 seamen march in
support of Patrick Neary, jailed (on 23rd) during seamen's strike |
25 198: Mike Field arrested for
shouting 'rich parasite' at Princess Diana |
26 2011: Picket at Liverpool
Mutual Homes as older workers are laid off. Strike action follows |
27 |
28 1920: Printers strike stops
Daily Post and Echo for three weeks |
29 |
30 1775: Seamen's Revolt: 1,000
sailors bombard Town Hall with ships cannon |
31 2006: Firefighters strike
against proposed cuts to services |
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Also in this month... 1880:
Mass meeting in the Trades Hall protests at discrimination against black sailors
1909: Suffragette Georgina Healiss receives WSPU medal 'for valour'
after hunger strike in prison
2004: Childcare social workers strike (till Jan 2005) |
1981
Liverpool 8 Defence Committee march (15th) |