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1978
Anti-Ring Road poster |
1 2005: Protest at council offices
over demolition plans for homes in the 'Welsh Streets' |
2 1983: Liverpool CND march in
Glasgow after demonstrating at Greenham Common the day before |
3 1939: Merseyside Left Theatre
anti-war play Bury the Dead at David Lewis Theatre |
4 2000: Greenpeace harass the
first ship to bring GM maize to Liverpool docks |
5 1890: Start of 'the great
dock strike' |
6 1923: Labour wins first Liverpool
Parliamentary seat (Edge Hill by-election) |
7 |
8 1971: First Women's Liberation
Movement celebrations |
9 2001: Kirkby Action Group marches
on Sonae factory |
10 1970: Day 2 of University
Senate house occupation against investment in apartheid |
11 1968: Start of 11-week bus
strike that forces renegotiation of one-person bus operation |
12 |
13 |
14 2003: First issue of Nerve
magazine |
15 1985: First Ford International
Workers Conference (held in the Adelphi Hotel) |
16 |
17 1937: Inaugural meeting of
Merseyside Left Theatre |
18 1953: Unity Theatre play
The Scab tells story of a Liverpool docker's family during the 1926
General Strike |
19 |
20 2003: Central Liverpool blocked
by demonstrations as Iraq war begins |
21 2003: 'We all live in a terrorist
regime' inscribed on Yellow Submarine tourist landmark |
22 1984: Lancashire NUM vote
to join national miners' strike |
23 |
24 2010: One-day strike by 20,000
civil servants over redundancy package |
25 |
26 1848: Repealers and Chartists
hold public meeting supporting Irish independence |
27 1997: Footballer Robbie Fowler
fined £900 by UEFA for displaying T-shirt supporting sacked
Liverpool dockers |
28 1987: Anti-Apartheid march
through city |
29 |
30 1962: Irish Freedom March
leaves Liverpool for London |
31 2006: Over 3,000 demonstrate
against visit of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice |
Also in this month... 1972:
Liverpool seamen recruited to take ANC guerrillas from Somalia to
South Africa in yacht Avventura
1984: Formation of the country's first support group for the national
miners' strike
2011: Andrew Manifold and other anti-war protesters refuse to complete
the 2011 census (forms being processed by Lockheed Martin) |
2011
International Women's at the statue of Mary Bamber |