Nerve 15 - Merseyside Resistance Calendar

Merseyside Resistance Calendar - February 2010

Fighting for the republic: volunteers of the International Brigades in the Spanish civil war. Many were from Merseyside. Photo from Jimmy Jump

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
1 1879: Three-week strike by 35,000 dockers and seamen over 10% reduction in wages more info	2 1951: Birkenhead, then Liverpool, dockers strike leaders charged under wartime 'Order 1305'	3 1911: Robert Tressell (Noonan), author of 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropists', dies in Royal Infirmary more info	4	5 1953: City Council bans Unity Theatre film show from Philharmonic Hall on political grounds more info 1889: National Union of Dock Labourers formed in Glasgow. First Merseyside branch opened in Bootle in June more info	6 1937: 18 volunteers from Merseyside die at the battle of Jarama, fighting for the Spanish Republic more info	7 1975: 35 cleaners at Ministry of Defence join trade union and lose their jobs
8 1906: James Sexton contests West Toxteth for Labour and denounces 'Chinese slavery' in South Africa	9 1992: Mike Hill loses his life in anti-hunt protest	10	11 2008: Rolls Royce workers march through city to protest against factory closure plans	12	13 1970: Launch of Big Flame, 'Merseyside's rank and file paper'	14
15 1986: Anti-Apartheid march through city more info 2003: ‘Peace Train’ takes protestors to join over a million others demonstrating against plans to bomb Iraq	16	17	18	19 1863: 3,000-4,000 in Royal Amphitheatre condemn slavery in support for North in American civil war more info 1972: Liverpool contingent of Right to Work March leaves for London more info	20 1855: Second day of Bread riots more info	21 1994: First Irish cultural and community festival 1967: Lucas shop stewards lobby Parliament more info
22 1890: National Union of Dock Labourers introduces Britain's first union lapel badge	23 1988: Dockers refuse to handle uranium mined in apartheid-ruled Namibia	24 1969: First National Ford Strike more info	25 2003: Rodney Street Youth Centre occupied as an International Welcome Centre for asylum-seekers 2000: Greenpeace halt shipment of GM maize bound for Liverpool more info	26	27	28 1984: 100,000 protest on Merseyside in support of GCHQ workers
Anti-Apartheid march (15th)				Also in this month... 1841: School of Science opened in Socialist Hall in Lord Nelson Street more info 1949: Unity produce '100 years hard' to mark centenary of Trades Council more info 1969: First screening of Ken Loach drama documentary 'The Big Flame' about striking Liverpool dockworkers (19th) 1969: Liverpool Free School opens 1971: Britain's longest strike starts at the Inland Revenue Office in Bootle, ends August1974 (electricians) 1972: Liverpool 'Right to Work' marchers leave for London (19th) 1975: Scotland Road Peoples Centre 'to open shortly' 1975: Three-month sit-in at Cammell Lairds more info

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