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Back to index of Nerve 21 - Winter 2012
Merseyside Resistance Calendar 2013 - February
 |
We Are the
Cardboard Army - Anti-cuts protesters on one of many protests
outside |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
 1936
Republican banner and medal from Spanish civil war |
1 1879: 'Three-week strike by 35,000 dockers and seamen over 10% reduction in wages | 2 1951: Birkenhead, then Liverpool, dockers strike over wages. Leaders charged under wartime regulation 'Order 1305' | 3 1911: Robert Tressell (Noonan), author of 'Ragged Trousered Philanthropists', dies in Royal Infirmary | |||
| 4 | 5 1953: City Council bans Unity theatre film show from Philharmonic Hall on political grounds | 6 1937: 18 volunteers from Merseyside die at the battle of Jarama, fighting for the Spanish republic | 7 1975: 35 cleaners at Ministry of Defence join trade union and lose their jobs | 8 1906: Jim Larkin is agent for James Sexton contesting West Toxteth for Labour at General Election | 9 1991: Mike Hill loses his life in anti-hunting protest | 10 1934: Merseyside contingent of National Hunger march arrives Chester (arrives London on 25th) |
| 11 2008: Rolls Royce workers march through city to protest against factory closure plans | 12 2010: Church Street vigil supporting 'Arab spring' in Egypt | 13 1970: Launch of Big Flame, 'Merseyside's rank and file paper' | 14 | 15 1986: Anti-Apartheid march through city | 16 | 17 1940: Peace march held by Liverpool branch of Women's Peace Campaign |
| 18 | 19 1863: 3,000-4,000 in Royal Amphitheatre condemn slavery and support the North in American civil war | 20 1855: Second day of bread riots | 21 1994: First Irish cultural and community festival | 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 |
| 25 2003: Rodney Street Youth Centre occupied as an International Welcome Centre for asylum-seekers | 26 | 27 2010: Formation of Liverpool Socialist Singers | 28 1984: 100,000 protest on Merseyside in support of GCHQ workers | |||
| Also in this month... 1969: First screening of Ken Loach drama documentary 'The Big Flame' about striking Liverpool dockworkers 1972: Liverpool 'Right to Work' marchers leave for London 1971: Electricians at Inland Revenue Office in Bootle begin Britain's longest strike (ends August 1974) |
 Robert
Tressell's pauper's grave in Walton cemetery centenary celebration |
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