Back to index of Nerve 21 - Winter 2012

Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - July

Striving for a living wage - firefighters on strike in 1977

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1	2 1889: Formation of Tramway Employees Association in face of heavy employer pressure	3 1971: 1,000 march from Kirkby to Liverpool in first post-war demo against unemployment	4 1981: Start of Liverpool 8 uprising ('the riots')	5 1913: Suffragette Edith Rigby sets off bomb at Liverpool Exchange Buildings	6 1981: William Huskisson statue on Princes Road pulled down	7 2001: First Arabic Arts Festival
8 1981: First public statement of Liverpool 8 Defence Committee	9 2002: Formation of Liverpool Friends of Palestine	10	11 1991: Terry Fields MP jailed for 60 days after refusing to pay poll tax	12 1819: Liverpool's first Orange parade 'put to flight by the Irish'	13 1912: Orange and Green Band marches through Garston after police brutality	14 2009: Friends of Palestine picket concert of Leonard Cohen as his tour includes gig in Tel-Aviv
15 1971: First edition of Liverpool Free Press, 'News you're not supposed to know'	16	17 1917: War poet Siegfried Sassoon throws his Military Cross ribbon into the Mersey at Formby beach	18 1989: Report of Gifford Inquiry into 'uniquely horrific' racism in Liverpool	19 2012: First of one-day strikes by Birkenhead Remploy workers against planned factory closure	20 1989: 7,000 seamen end seven-week strike	21 2007: 1,000 march against cuts in, and privatisation of, postal services
22 1848: Irish Confederates arrested in possession of pikes amid rumours of insurrection	23	24 1972: Liverpool Echo is not printed for three days amid widespread actions supporting jailed 'Pentonville 5' dockers	25	26 1847: Daniel O'Connell's body lies in state on the Mersey en route from London to Dublin	27 1984: Official opening of the Flying Picket bar on Hardman Street	28 2001: Demonstration supporting asylum- seekers on hunger strike in Walton prison
29 1848: 500 dockers dismissed for refusing to become special constables	30 1996: Ploughshares activists acquitted at Crown Court after damaging Hawk fighter aircraft	31 1919: Liverpool police join in national strike - 955 later dismissed	Also in this month... 1796: Edward Rushton's 'Letter to Washington' challenges the President for owning slaves while advocating liberty 1895: Bitter dispute at Jackson's Rope Works, Old Swan, after machine tears young girl to pieces (29th) in front of her mother 2011: Cairns Street residents' blockade prevents demolition of houses
2009 Peace and Ecology poster		2011 Picket of new museum (19th)

Printer friendly page

Comments are closed on this article