Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
Saturday |
Sunday |
The
mural outside the Picket |
1 1913: Jim Larkin and Big Bill
Hayward address meeting at Sun Hall in support of the Dublin lock-out |
2 |
3 2007: Turner art prize awards
in Liverpool upstaged by Stop the War alternative exhibition |
4 |
5 1998: First James Larkin Commemoration
march |
6 1973: Bailiffs chased away
when attempting evictions to make way for the M62 |
7 1973: Nightly demonstrations
outside Walton prison in support of jailed Kirkby rent striker Brian
Owen |
8 2000: Fidel Castro unveils
statue to John Lennon in Cuba |
9 1999: Black Liverpudlian Eric
Lynch denounces City Council 'apology' for the slave trade |
10 1975: British Withdrawal
from Northern Ireland 14 (including two Liverpudlians) acquitted of
Incitement to Disaffection |
11 1911: 400 bargemen on Leeds-Liverpool
canal strike in overtime dispute |
12 1938: Merseyside Spain Aid
Committee ship sails for Spain with supplies for republicans |
13 2004: First meeting of Liverpool
Social Forum |
14 1980: 30,000 gather on St.
George's Plateau for vigil after John Lennon's death |
15 |
16 |
17 1973: Kirkby rent strike
ends after 14 months as five more are jailed for 'contempt of court' |
18 |
19 1885: Liverpool Scotland
constituency elect Irish nationalist MP |
20 1909: Suffragettes Selina
Martin and Lesley Hall arrested for throwing bottle at visiting Prime
Minister |
21 1965: Abolition of Death Penalty
Bill introduced by Liverpool MP Sidney Silverman |
22 |
23 1909: Suffragettes force-fed
on hunger- strike in Liverpool prison |
24s |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 1908: Jim Larkin becomes founder
secretary of Irish Transport and General Workers Union |
29 2007: Picket of Cricket fashion
shop to protest against sale of fur products |
30 |
31 2008: Church Street vigil
protests against Israel's invasion of Gaza |
Also in this month... 1888:
Seamen's strike (till 18th Feb)
1939: Brendan Behan, writer, arrested for preparing to blow up battleship
in Liverpool harbour
1971: Gypsy Free School in Shaw Street opens |
1913:
Jim Larkin speaks (1st) |