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Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - May

1926 Miners strike support group (Nerve 9)

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1895 May Day by Liverpool's Walter Crane		1 1974: News from Nowhere, radical bookshop, opens	2 1981: Merseyside Hunger Strike Supporters Committee march to Pier Head in support of Irish hunger-striker Bobby Sands (who died on the 6th)	3 1926: General Strike begins, solid in Liverpool	4 1912: Strike at Wilson's Bobbin Works, leading to the 'Garston riots'	5 1972: George 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	8 1987: Liz Drysdale (Granby) & Judy Nelson (Smithdown) become first black women City Councillors	9 2004: Friends of Palestine demonstrate outside Harold House against speaker Louise Ellman MP	10 1919: Arnold Yates, bookseller, fined for possession of leaflets advocating revolution	11 1981: 10,000 strike at Fords to defeat new disciplinary code	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	16 1966: Liverpool at forefront of national seamen's strike (till 1 July)	17 2010: Over 100 repairers at Cammell Lairds go on unofficial strike over job losses plan	18 1832: Emigrant ship Brutus leaves Liverpool for Quebec 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	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 1981: 450 City council typists' work-to-rule quickly becomes a six-month all-out strike	29 1981: Liverpool Black Organisation occupy Caribbean Centre	30 1981: Peoples March for Jobs arrives in London	31 1911: National Transport Workers Federation launched with rally on St George's Plateau
Also in this month... 1984: Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Two Tribes 1989: Three-day rooftop protest against prison conditions at Risley Remand Centre 1999: Trees at Park Nook (Princes Park) occupied to stop luxury flats			2012 Climate Jobs stall in Williamson Square (19th)

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