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Merseyside Resistance Calendar - March

Coffin for Condi - Demonstration against the US Secretary of State's visit (31 March 2006).
Photo: Bob Iddon

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          1 2004: 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 more info
3 1972: St Helens Plastics factory occupied by workforce 4 5 6 1923: Labour wins first Liverpool Parliamentary seat more info 7 8 1971: First Women’s Liberation Movement celebrations
1890: Mercury reports that dock strike over union recognition ‘is assuming alarming proportions’
9 2001: Kirkby Action Group marches on Sonae factory more info
10 11 1972: Liverpool contingent of Right to Work March arrives in London more info 12 13 14 2003: First issue of Nerve magazine more info 15 1985: First Ford International Workers Conference (held in the Adelphi Hotel) more info 16
17 1937: Inaugural meeting of Merseyside Left Theatre 18 19 20 2003: Central Liverpool blocked by demonstrations as Iraq war begins more info
1935: Publishers of James Hanley’s novel Boy prosecuted for obscenity
21 2003: ‘We all live in a terrorist regime’ inscribed on Yellow Submarine tourist landmark more info 22 1984: Lancashire NUM vote to join national miners strike 23
24 25 26 1848: Repealers and Chartists hold public meeting supporting Irish independence 27 28 1987: Anti-Apartheid march through city more info 29 30 1920: 20,000 dockers strike to secure release of Irish republicans from Wormwood Scrubs prison (this date should be 30 April) more info
31 2006: Over 2,000 demonstrate against Condoleezza Rice visit more info       Also in this month
1984: Formation of the country’s first support group for the national miners strike more info
1978: Ring Road Protest Group formed more info
1986: Labour History Museum opened
1890: Three-week strike by dock labourers, coalheavers, dock foremen, fruit porters and flatmen
1919: Agitation over level of women’s post-war unemployment
1968: Last Workhouse in Liverpool (Brownlow Hill) closed

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