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Back to index of Nerve 25 - Winter 2014
Nerve Love, Hope & Resistance Calendar 2015 - February
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Mike and Alex reading the papers in Breck Road Community Library, by Jane Hughes |
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Also in this month... 1969:
First screening of Ken Loach drama documentary 'The Big Flame' about
striking Liverpool dockworkers (19th) 1971: Britain's longest strike starts at the Inland Revenue Office in Bootle, ends Aug 1974 (11th) 1972: Liverpool ‘Right to Work’ marchers leave for London (19th) |
1 1879: 'Three-week strike by 35,000 dockers and seamen over 10% reduction in wages | |||||
| 2 1951: Merseyside dockers strike. Leaders arrested (9th) and charged under wartime law 'Order 1305' | 3 1911: Robert Tressell (Noonan), author of ‘Ragged Trousered Philanthropists’, dies in Royal Infirmary | 4 | 5 2011: March and 2000-strong rally in Anglican Cathedral against public spending cuts | 6 1937: 18 volunteers from Merseyside die at the battle of Jarama, fighting for Spanish republic | 7 1975: 35 cleaners at Ministry of Defence join trade union and lose their jobs | 8 1906: James Sexton contests West Toxteth for Labour at General Election and campaigns against 'Chinese slavery' in South Africa |
| 9 1991: Mike Hill loses his life in anti-hunting protest | 10 1934: Merseyside contingent of National Hunger march arrives Chester | 11 2008: Rolls Royce workers march through city to protest against factory closure plans | 12 2011: Church Street vigil supporting 'Arab spring' in Egypt and Tunisia | 13 1970: Launch of Big Flame, 'Merseyside's rank and file paper' | 14 1986: Publication of CND booklet ' Merseyside and the Bomb' | 15 2003: ‘Peace Train’ takes protestors to join over a million others demonstrating against plans to bomb Iraq |
| 16 | 17 1940: Peace march held by Liverpool branch of Womens Peace Campaign (photo in DP of 19 Feb, page 3) | 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 (till 4 April) | 26 | 27 2010: Formation of Liverpool Socialist Singers | 28 1984: 100,000 protest on Merseyside in support of GCHQ workers | |
2010: Formation of Liverpool Socialist Singers
(27th) |
1911: Robert Tressell (Noonan), author of ‘Ragged
Trousered Philanthropists’, dies in Royal Infirmary (3rd) |
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