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Back to index of Nerve 15 - Winter 2009
Merseyside Resistance Calendar - April 2010
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Demonstration against plans to close the
Tate and Lyle sugar refinery in Love Lane in April 1981. |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| 1 1987: First Mutual Aid Centre
opens in Victoria Street in what is now Millennium House
more infomore1922:
National Union of Dock Labourers amalgamated into Transport and General Workers' Union |
2 1911: Suffragettes gather in Birkenhead house and refuse to give names to census: 'No Vote, No Census' | 3 | 4 1978: First meeting of Merseyside Anti-Racialist Alliance | |||
| 5 | 6 1979: First Merseyside ‘Reclaim the Night’. Women march through city centre | 7 | 8 2005: Friends of Palestine picket Caterpiller's Perkin plant in Irlam | 9 2005: Train drivers bring Merseyrail to a halt on Grand National weekend more info | 10 1982: Kirkby Unemployed Centre opens | 11 1976: First meeting of Liberty Hall, alternative social club |
| 12 | 13 1962: Pat Arrowsmith of CND arrested at dockside meeting on nuclear disarmament | 14 | 15 1962: Irish Freedom March from Liverpool arrives in London | 16 | 17 1951: Seven dockers (three from Merseyside) cleared of 'conspiracy to incite a strike' | 18 |
| 19 1989: Boycott of Sun newspaper begins after it vilifies Liverpool fans at Hillsborough stadium tragedy more info | 20 1948: Tugboatmen strike | 21 2008: 60 Greenpeace 'orang-utan' volunteers occupy Unilever factory for the day in biofuels protest | 22 | 23 1919: Protest march by unemployed (demobilised) soldiers | 24 | 25 1919: Arnold Yates, bookseller, seen with leaflets addressed to sailors advocating revolution |
| 26 1988: Kirkby Response Theatre formed | 27 1983: One-day city-wide strike against privatisation | 28 1920: Dockers threaten strike in support of Irish political prisoners on hunger strike in Wormwood Scrubs more info | 29 1872: 8,000 carters strike (one week) for better wages | 30 1996: Los Angeles dockers
shut terminal in solidarity with Liverpool dock strike
1920: 20,000 dockers strike to secure
release of Irish republicans from Wormwood Scrubs prison more
info |
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 2001:
Workers memorial on Islington unveiled by UCATT (28th) |
Also in this month... 1984: MTUCURC theatre named after David Jones, Notts miner who lost his life on picket duty at Ollerton (on 15 March) 1985: School students' strikes against Youth Training Scheme (YTS) 'slave labour', start with 14 arrested in Kirkby, 10,000 march through the city on 25th April 2004: Welsh Streets Homes Group set up to oppose demolition of homes in the ten 'Welsh Streets' in Liverpool 8 |
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