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Unsung: Liverpool’s M
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Celebrating the life of E
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ushton 1756-1814See the exhibitions
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Library Cuts S
helvedThe conjuring up of over £1.6m
by Mayor Joe A
nderson to keep all Liverpool librariesopen is a testam
ent to how, if enough people push together, they can m
ake a realdifference.
But libraries should not be seen as a special case; all public services in this city are
important. They provide a fabric of culture, care and hum
anity that, if lost, will rob w
orkingclass people of the m
eans to enjoy life in the way that w
ealthy people have always been
able to.In 2010 Liverpool received £500m
from central G
overnment, and has now
lost 58% of
this as a yearly income. W
ith the government planning to slash spending even further,
this could go down to 20%
by 2018. 1So by then Liverpool C
ity Council w
ill only get about£100m
, which w
ill have a massive im
pact on our public services. The councils' job is to m
aintain and improve the standard of living for the people of this
city. But they still say they have no choice but to cut services. P
ublic services are ours byright; they have been fought for and built up by w
orkers over generations. They can't betaken from
us just because of the ideology of a government. If the M
ayor and his Council
can't see any alternative to making cuts, then they should stand aside and m
ake way for
people who are m
ore determined to save our services and to lead a fight back!
AM
atter of FAC
TC
ouncillor Nick S
mall, Liverpool C
ouncil’s Cabinet m
ember for em
ployment and skills has
called for a boycott of Picturehouse, based inside FA
CT, until all staff are paid the living
wage. This is som
ething that Nerve dem
anded for FAC
Tw
orkers (see Nerve 24).
Picturehouse are now
paying a living wage of £7.85 an hour to staff in their B
rixtoncinem
a after a strike by workers.
Sm
all has stated that: “In-work poverty and low
pay are a blight in our city" 2Yes, well
said Nick. N
ow extend this philosophy to all the organisations that the C
ouncil givem
oney or contracts to, like the care services.A
lso while you're at it, end all the contracts you have w
ith dodgy firms such as G
4Sand C
arillion, who have the contract to build the new
Royal H
ospital. Nerve supports the
motion put by Liverpool Friends of P
alestine to Liverpool City C
ouncil that urges them“not to com
mission goods or services from
companies that are com
plicit in breakinginternational law
, or are guilty of grave misconduct, victim
ise trade unionists, damage
workers’health or the environm
ent”.
Nerve
2015 Calendar
The theme of this calendar w
as inspired by an event singer/songwriter A
lun Parry hosted
in April. Love, H
ope & R
esistance included songs, poems and w
ritings about working
class struggle for a decent life. Out of the im
ages that were sent to us our editorial team
had to make the difficult choice of choosing tw
elve. Images w
ere selected firstly with the
theme in m
ind, but also a balance between photographs and art, colour and black and
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erseyside link. Thanks to everyone who subm
itted work. That
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ay reflects their artistic merit and w
ith other criteria atotally different selection w
ould be made.
The same thing applies to w
ritten work sent in, although in this case w
e were even
more stuck for space (see our w
ebsite for more on this).
1. Treasury asks top civil servants to find £30bn in public service cuts, The Guardian, 11.11.14
2. Liverpool cinema staff pay rise cam
paign wins backing, Liverpool E
cho, 11.11.14
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and every publication. How
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VE 2015 Calendar
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y Haw
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unt,R
itchie Hunter, C
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ai Andersen,
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oventry, Sue H
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aylor, John Ow
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ontributors:Minnie Stacey, Tom
Calderbank, A
rthur Adlen, John D
avies, TedS
eagrave, Elspeth M
cLean, Jane Hughes,
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efton Park Library
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art LeeC
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e set a competition
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ichard Herring.
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allasey. Matthew
is shown here receiving his
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office.
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4
At the G
MB
‘Cam
paigns for Justice’C
onference each speaker was a direct
source of experience attesting to the tragicfacts of how
organisations providing work,
together with authorities and agencies
tasked to protect us, have colluded to ruinlives. The designs of the state, the fourthestate and big business set out a clearpattern of abuse against the w
orking class.M
argaret Aspinall, C
hair of theH
illsborough Family S
upport Group,
provided the testimony of w
hat all thesepow
erful campaigns have in com
mon - the
tenacity of not giving up. Her indignation,
strength and sorrow w
as ours when she
took to the lectern, saying ‘We are all in
hell, it’s torture for all of us.’Betrayed by a
Labour Party and buried alive by m
ud, itw
as mass support from
the public that gaveH
FSG
the strength to go on.M
irror journalist Brian R
eadew
as atH
illsborough and has campaigned from
dayone. H
e read out extracts from his first
article after fans had died in front of hiseyes. These w
ere words w
ritten in rawanger w
hich prove the truth was out there
at the start.S
hadow S
ecretary of State Andy
Burnham
described how he had seen post-it
notes with orders to change H
illsboroughevidence on police logs. ‘The pow
er of thesystem
to grind people down is terrifying’,
the MP
said, adding that when B
ritish justicedidn’t deliver, it’s often been the TradeU
nions that have given support.D
ave Smith
from the blacklisting support
group held up the 36-page blacklisting filethat w
as kept on him. ‘D
o we w
ant to live ina country w
here being a Trade Union
representative can get you dismissed and
placed on a list as a domestic extrem
ist?’heasked. B
lacklisting itself was big business,
construction companies paid £2 a go to
check tens of thousands of names.
Neil Findlay
is a Mem
ber for Scottish
Parliam
ent and sees himself as being on the
political wing of the Trade U
nion movem
ent.H
e spoke about blacklisting as a classjustice issue. B
ecause campaigners refused
to go away, the G
MB
worked w
ith them.
Sim
ply for wanting toilet roll in the toilets,
workers could end up on a list of
‘troublemakers’.
Aform
er safety rep on a McA
lpine site,R
icky Tomlinson, has been cam
paigningfor justice for the S
hrewsbury 24 for years.
He had the guts to entertain us w
hilst settingout the tragic events he and fellow
workers
went through. ‘They stitch you up and send
you to jail then you have to find the evidenceand give it back to them
,’he shouted. D
ave Hopper
from the M
iners’Association
told us the miners’strike w
as a war, w
ithThatcher directing industrial terrorism
tobreak the U
nions. 10,000 miners w
erearrested but not one policem
an was ever
indicted or charged with an offence - instead
they were assisted by the m
edia framing of
state propaganda. ‘It is scandalous what w
ew
ent through in the name of w
ork’, saidD
ave, and led directly to Hillsborough
through West Yorkshire P
olice learning thatim
punity is strength. Form
er Shipyard w
orker Eddie Marnell
and GM
B N
ational Officer D
ave Hulse told
conference the story of a Cam
mell Laird
strike. Eddie is convinced it w
as the SA
Sw
ho were sent in to threaten the m
en with
their lives if they didn’t abandon theiroccupation. In 1984, 37 legitim
ate strikersw
ere found guilty of trespass and sentencedto one m
onth in prison, in a gut-wrenching
miscarriage of justice. ‘It w
as to deter them
iners’, said Eddie. The m
en were sacked,
blacklisted, and their redundancy andpension rights rescinded.
In today’s climate of austerity it is
frightening that unemployed disabled
workers are suffering a hate cam
paign which
focuses on them as ‘scroungers’. R
employ
used to have 96 factories and was 97%
unionised with G
MB
mem
bership. Brian
Davies, form
er GM
B convenor at R
employ,
fought to keep the factories open. 80% of
the Rem
ploy workers are still unem
ployedafter 2 years and one person from
this GM
Bregion hung him
self. A
listair Morgan’s
brother Daniel w
asaxed to death in a S
outh London car park.H
e suspected police and media corruption,
and 30 years later is still fighting for justice.The case involves the w
holesale selling ofinform
ation to the Murdoch press. A
listairsaid ‘I lobbied governm
ent till I was sick’but
even having an MP
in cabinet with Jack
Straw and H
azel Blears didn’t help.
Labour MP
Tom W
atsonsaid it’s only the
Trade Unions that can draw
thesecam
paigns together. He repeated a
persistent theme: police, P
arliament and
prime m
inisters have all collectively failedpeople. Tom
stressed that no-one hasattacked the central ow
nership of media and
we can be sure the Trade U
nions are on thelist of the surveillance state.
The GM
B ‘C
ampaigns for Justice’
Conference gave us an up close and
personal view of injustice, w
here we sw
eptfor the m
ines of a surveillance state andcorporate control. W
hen the UK
establishment treats people as terrorists for
demanding justice, uses corrupt police
forces, questionable courts and staggeringcorporate creep to kettle us in - enough isenough.
The evidence from the platform
was that
where the people are being w
ronged, TradeU
nions support them. P
oliticians generallydon’t. The judiciary and police don’t. W
ith theright to bargain collectively and freedom
toassociate already in the E
uropean Social
Contract, the U
K governm
ent is planning afurther stranglehold on Trade U
nion laws.
If courage is contagious, networking
campaigns for justice encourages solidarity
and builds mom
entum. S
umm
ing up, Neil
Findlayobserved ‘There are com
mon
threads for all campaigns against state
power and it is our duty to resist. I hope this
is the start of something - w
e owe it to
ourselves and our class.’M
innie Stacey@m
inniestacey
GM
B ‘C
ampaign for Justice’
Conference
5th and 6th September 2014
Com
e Together, Right N
ow!
by Minnie Stacey
For more on these cam
paignsw
ww
.campaignsforjustice.com
For a list of speakers and to read the fullfeature article, go to the N
ervew
ebsite.
5
SavingSeftonParkM
eadows
From ‘Turning G
reen toB
rown’a book by John
Davies:
ww
w.johndavies.uk.com
33 selected portraits inS
efton Park M
eadows
The £2 proft on eachsale of this book isdonated to the S
aveS
efton Park M
eadows
Cam
paign Fund.The im
age shown is of
Nettie and her 2
children.
On 25th D
ecember 1914, as day daw
nedover a Flanders battlefield, soldiers w
ho hadfaced each other in battle clim
bed out of theirtrenches. In the m
iddle of no-man’s land the
battle-weary soldiers, w
ho had hours beforebeen intent on fighting each other, tentativelyshook hands. M
ost could not speak eachother’s language, but gifts of cigars and foodw
ere exchanged as the sounds of war w
eresilenced for a m
oment in tim
e.A
midst this uneasy peace, som
eoneproduced a football and the w
ar was left
behind. The soldiers threw off their tiredness
and as if they were playing in a local park,
the opposing forces united as one andbegan to play. P
eace broke out, men
became boys again and for a short
time they could forget the cold,
the wet and their fear. The
game set them
free.A
hundred yearson, an iconic statueis now
beingcreated to
comm
emorate and celebrate this truce and
the most fam
ous football game in history. It
will be a sym
bol of peace and hope and acall for a renew
ed worldw
ide cessation ofviolence in honour of those brave boys w
ho“joined together and decided not to fight”.
The resin sculpture will be transported
from Liverpool and be exhibited in G
ermany,
before travelling to Flanders to be temporarily
installed on the site of the truce on Christm
asD
ay, 100 years on.The w
ork being sculpted is entitled ‘All
Together Now
’, recalling the song by The
Farm- coincidentally being re-released also
to mark the centenary - w
hich was inspired
by the truce.The statue depicts the m
eeting of aB
ritish and a Germ
an soldier over a football,deep in the m
ud between the lines on that
first Christm
as of the war. The soldiers
appear to be shaking hands but are not notquite touching, form
ing a space in which a
visitor can insert their own hand to com
pletethe union. A
chance for a mom
ents reflectionon how
far we are from
true peace andbrotherhood and the part each of us has to
play in that dream. W
e want the w
orkto stand as both a celebration of
this inspirational and heroicevent and as sym
bol ofhope and peace.
ALL
TOG
ETHER
NO
W!
Christm
as Truce statue for a centenary
Tom C
alderbankStatue: A
ndyEdw
ards
6
DEM
Entia. . .T
he k
ey he so
ugh
t so d
esperately
was g
ripp
ed firm
ly in h
is fist.H
e’d alw
ays kep
t it by th
e door.
“Th
e dam
ned
thin
g can
’t have w
alked
!”H
e swore an
d b
lamed
his w
ife for h
idin
g it.
Th
e start of a lo
ng list as th
ings g
ot w
orse.
Loyal Jak
e, forever at h
is feet, w
as cursed
, as was in
deed
the n
urse.
If on
ly dogs co
uld
talk.
His b
oss h
ad lo
st a sense o
f all pro
priety,
a grasp
on
Tim
e; eventu
ally his d
ign
ity.
Dan
’s wife, as alw
ays, bore th
ings w
ellth
ou
gh
she h
erself was h
ou
sebou
nd
.Frail as sh
e was, sh
e cop
ed, yet
there w
ere times sh
e wish
ed th
ey’d n
ot elo
ped
wh
en G
old
en years ag
o th
ey fell in Lo
ve.H
er on
ce gen
tle, darlin
g sp
ou
se now
fou
gh
t,ab
ove all else, ag
ainst h
er close atten
tion
s.Patien
ce and
horrid
thou
gh
ts wh
en m
ixed cau
seraw
emotio
n an
d tarn
ish p
ure D
evotio
n.
A carer called
each d
ayan
d h
elped
as best sh
e cou
ldb
ut m
ost o
f all to reassu
rew
hen
times g
ot to
ugh
er still.R
espite w
as the o
nly d
oor
that o
pen
ed to
revival of A
nn
e’s Will,
wh
ich w
as the k
ey to h
er survival.
Wh
at a Sin th
at Dan
on
ce was
the m
ainstay o
f their lo
cal chu
rch,
wh
o’d
led th
e hym
ns, an
d an
y Force fo
r Good
.It h
ad b
een a p
rivilege to
kn
ow
the m
an,
bu
t cursin
g is a sacrileg
e; they p
rayed o
f cou
rse.O
nly h
is faithfu
l lurch
er still looked
up
to h
im.
Wh
at remain
ed o
f family lived
abro
ad;
An
ne ch
ose n
ot to
let them
kn
ow
un
til……
With
the en
d n
ot yet in
sigh
t,years lin
gered
on
and
wore h
er dow
n.
Cru
el Death
had
draw
n its stin
g, th
ere was n
o‘rag
e again
st the d
ying o
f the lig
ht’,
no ten
der b
lessing o
n h
is lips,
no g
aspin
g sh
ou
t;D
an ju
st fizzled
ou
t,so
on
afterA
nn
e.Ted Seagrave
Shelved (The song of the book)W
ritten about the abandoned books in Great H
omer Street
Library, which w
ere left there on their own for a w
hile when
the library closed.
Up
here at th
e top
it’s a bit o
f a squ
eeze
We’re co
ver to co
ver in lin
eIt’s b
een a lo
ng tim
e since w
e felt a fresh b
reeze
Or th
e warm
th o
f a han
d o
n a sp
ine
Our library shut in the sum
mer
Now
we’re shut up in the dark w
here no one can lookW
hat use is a page with no reader?
This is no way to balance the books
Th
ere’s Taylo
r, and
Alice, R
ashid
a and
Tom
Wh
ere will th
ey get th
eir stories?
Or th
e poets th
eir poem
s? Or th
e singers th
eir son
gs?
Th
ey’ve all been
lock
ed o
ut b
y rich T
ories
Chorus
Th
e mayo
r says they can
all pop
into
tow
nO
r dow
nlo
ad u
s on
to a lap
top
Bu
t the b
us fares are h
uge an
d th
e rain’s tip
pin
g d
ow
nIt w
on
t hap
pen
, their read
ing w
ill stop
Chorus
Th
ere’s all sorts o
f kn
ow
ledge u
p h
ere on
ou
r shelves
We co
uld
feed yo
u lo
ve – or yo
ur rag
eB
ut yo
ur lead
ers are keep
ing it all to
them
selves T
hey k
now
the p
ow
er of th
e pag
e
Our library shut in the sum
mer
Now
we’re shut up in the dark w
here no one can lookW
hat use is a page with no reader?
This is no way to balance the books
Elspeth McLean
The Tuesday morning reading group at Edge H
ill LibraryS
adly this library is now closed but this little group of people w
ould meet up each
Tuesday to read a chosen book. They would also have tea &
biscuits while this
was going on – so this w
as a lovely social get together for them. Jane H
ughes
It doesn’t have to belike this. Find outhow
you canbecom
e a Dem
entiaFriend and learnm
ore about what it’s
like to live with
dementia and the
little things that youcan do to help.
ww
w.dem
entiafriends.org.uk
7
Getting fucked about
peo
ple o
n b
enefits, p
eop
le wh
o are sick
peo
ple in
wh
eelchairs, p
eop
le on
sticks
peo
ple w
ith can
cer, peo
ple w
ithou
t arms
peo
ple w
ho are b
lind
, peo
ple w
ith b
ad h
eartsw
e don
’t expect m
uch
, bu
t they’re g
iving u
s now
tw
e’re already fu
cked
, now
we’re g
etting fu
cked
abou
t
havin
g clau
strop
hob
ia mak
es us feel clo
sed in
anorexia tells u
s that eatin
g is a sin
if we su
ffer from
anxiety th
en everyth
ing’s a fu
ssb
eing p
aranoid
don
’t mean
that th
ey’re not after u
sag
orap
hob
ia mak
es it hard
for u
s to ven
ture o
ut
we’re alread
y fuck
ed n
ow
we’re g
etting fu
cked
abou
t
you
get d
ragged
into
AT
OS an
d yo
u co
me o
ut cu
redth
ey’ve got a b
etter success rate th
an th
e waters at Lo
urd
esd
eclare you
fit for w
ork
bu
t there’s n
o w
ork
in th
is cityth
ey tell you
you
’re fine b
ut yo
u ju
st feel shitty
it’s abou
t as mu
ch h
elp as a sm
ack in
the m
ou
thw
e’re already fu
cked
now
we’re g
etting fu
cked
abou
t
sub
sidised
meals fo
r MPs in
the H
ou
seth
e rest of u
s get a b
ow
l of b
lind
scou
seb
ankers m
akin
g m
illion
s pro
fits are so g
ood
bu
t the o
nly b
anks th
riving are g
iving o
ut fo
od
it’s gon
na g
et worse o
f that th
ere’s no d
ou
bt
we’re alread
y fuck
ed n
ow
we’re g
etting fu
cked
abou
t
I’m o
n In
capacity w
aiting fo
r me p
ensio
nI’d
better w
ear a mask
so I d
on
’t catch th
eir attentio
nth
e cou
ntry’s b
eing ru
n b
y a gan
g o
f twats fro
m Eto
nth
e trou
ble w
ith u
s we d
on
’t kn
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JANUARY 2015
1916 Liverpool branch ofNUR 'reaffirms its unalterable
opposition to conscription'
2009 2,000 march to protest against
Israeli attack on Gaza
1977 450 strike at Cammell Lairds over
productivity payment dispute
1972 Fisher-Bendix factoryin Kirkby occupied by
workforce for five weeks
2012 UK Uncut / OccupyLiverpool picket shops
involved in tax avoidance
1906 Liverpool's firstsuffragette action: Prime
Minister heckled at Sun Hall
1791 Edward Rushton and others start Liverpool
School for the Blind
1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood's ‘Relax’
is banned by BBC
1847 First of 300,000 Irishfleeing the great hunger
arrive in Liverpool
1910 Protest outside Walton jail at
maltreatment of suffragettes.
1895 First appearance ofILP's 'Soup and Socialism'
van at St George's Hall
1863 Conference in supportof the North and against
slavery in American civil war
2013 Anti-cuts demonstrators
occupy Town Hall
1889 Meeting to form a trade union for women cigar-makers
1979 Grave-diggers strike (till 1 Feb)
2006 ‘Dragons of the Pool’unveil plaque to Chinese
merchant seamen forciblyrepatriated in 1945
1889 First meeting ofWomens Industrial Council
1938 Merseyside LeftTheatre performs
play ‘Waiting for Lefty'
1914 First meeting of Free Speech
Protest Joint Committee
1919 Mass meetingdemands release of Irish
political prisoners
1996 News from Nowherebookshop avoids eviction by
Frensons developers andmoves to present building
1996 Ploughshares activists damage
Hawk fighters destined for Indonesian regime
1791 Liverpool School for theBlind on the corner of London
Rd and Pudsey St. (10th)
Also in this month... 1912 The Syndicalist publishes ‘Don’t Shoot’ leaflet by Fred Bower, urgingsoldiers not to fire on striking workers 1996 Women of the Waterfront petition Downing Street insupport of the 500 sacked dockers (9th) 2009 Marches to protest Israel's invasion of Gaza (3rd,17th) 2012 Start of 11-day action by Unilever workers in protest at pension changes (18th)
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WORLD PEACE DAYPUBLIC HOLIDAY
MARTIN LUTHERKING DAY (USA)
HOLOCAUSTMEMORIAL DAY
2010 PCS rally for public services at St George's plateau
1977 First issue ofMerseyside Women’s Paper
World Peace Day (1st)
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FEBRUARY 2015
1879 'Three-week strike by35,000 dockers and seamenover 10% reduction in wages
1951 Merseyside dockers strike. Leaders arrested (9th) and charged under wartime law 'Order 1305'
1911 Robert Tressell(Noonan), author of ‘Ragged
Trousered Philanthropists’,dies in Royal Infirmary
2011 March and 2000-strongrally in Anglican Cathedral
against public spending cuts
1937 18 volunteers from Merseyside
die at the battle of Jarama, fighting for Spanish republic
1975 35 cleaners at Ministryof Defence join trade
union and lose their jobs
1906 James Sexton contestsWest Toxteth for Labour at
General Election andcampaigns against 'Chinese
slavery' in South Africa
1991 Mike Hill loses his lifein anti-hunting protest
1934 Merseyside contingentof National Hunger
march arrives Chester
2008 Rolls Royce workersmarch through city to protestagainst factory closure plans
2011 Church Street vigilsupporting 'Arab spring' in
Egypt and Tunisia
1970 Launch of Big Flame, 'Merseyside's
rank and file paper'
1986 Publication of CND booklet '
Merseyside and the Bomb'
2003 ‘Peace Train’ takesprotestors to join over a
million others demonstratingagainst plans to bomb Iraq
1890 National Union of Dock Labourers introduces Britain's
first union lapel badge1994 First Irish cultural and community festival
1855 Second day of bread riots
1863 3,000-4,000 in RoyalAmphitheatre condemn
slavery and support the Northin American civil war
1940 Peace march held byLiverpool branch of Womens
Peace Campaign (photo in DP of 19 Feb, page 3)
1988 Dockers refuse tohandle uranium mined inapartheid-ruled Namibia
Also in this month... 1969 First screening of Ken Loach drama documentary 'TheBig Flame' about striking Liverpool dockworkers (19th) 1971 Britain's longest strike starts at the Inland Revenue Office in Bootle, ends Aug1974 (11th) 1972 Liverpool ‘Right to Work’ marchers leave for London (19th)
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1969 First national Ford Strike
2003 Rodney Street Youth Centre
occupied as an International Welcome Centre for
asylum-seekers (till 4 April)2010 Formation of Liverpool
Socialist Singers
1984 100,000 protest onMerseyside in support of
GCHQ workers
1911 Robert Tressell (Noonan),author of ‘Ragged TrouseredPhilanthropists’, dies in Royal Infirmary (3rd)
2010 Formation of LiverpoolSocialist Singers (27th)
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MARCH 2015
1997 Robbie Fowler fined for displaying T-shirt supporting sacked Liverpool dockers (27th)
2005 Protest at counciloffices over ‘Welsh Streets’
demolition plans
1939 Merseyside LeftTheatre anti-war play Bury
the Dead at David LewisTheatre (also on the 4th)
2000 Greenpeace harassthe first ship bringing GMmaize to Liverpool docks
2013 Premiere of KenLoach's film The Spirit of '45
1923 Labour wins firstLiverpool Parliamentary seat
(Edge Hill by-election)
1971 First WomensLiberation Movement
celebrations
2001 Kirkby Action Groupmarches on Sonae factory
2010 Second day of two-day strike by
20,000 civil servants
1968 Start of 11-week strikethat forces renegotiation ofone-person bus operation
2003 First issue of Nerve magazine
1968 Demo and disruptionat Cammell Lairds as Polaris
sub Revenge is launched
1984 Lancashire NUM voteto join national miners strike
2003 ‘We all live in a terrorist regime’inscribed on Yellow
Submarine tourist landmark
2003 Central Liverpoolblocked by demonstrations
as Iraq war begins
1953 Unity Theatre play TheScab tells story of a Liverpool
docker's family during the1926 General Strike
1937 Inaugural meeting ofMerseyside Left Theatre
1912 Liverpool andBirkenhead rallies against
arrest of Tom Mann for the'Don't Shoot' leaflet
1907 Keir Hardie addresses Great Socialist
Demonstration at Hope Hall(now Everyman Theatre)
1848 Repealers andChartists hold publicmeeting supporting Irish independence
SUMMER TIMEBEGINS
Also in this month... 1909 Patricia Woodlock, suffragette, jailed for three months as 'persistentoffender' for role in eighth womens Parliament (30th) 1970 Students occupy Senate house protestinguniversity investments in apartheid South Africa (9th to 20th)1984 Formation of the country’s first support group for the national miners strike
INTERNATIONALWOMENS DAY
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1997 Robbie Fowler fined for displaying
T-shirt supporting sacked Liverpool dockers
1987 Anti-Apartheid march through city
2013 Two marches meet atWellington Column and rally
against bedroom tax
ANTI-RACISMDAY
2006 Over 3,000demonstrate against visit of US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice
International Womens Day (8th)
'Encompass' about personal achievement, vision and struggle.. But also about pulling a community together to "encompass" you.Photograph by Brenda Sharp, artwork by Alison Bailey Smith
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APRIL 2015
1978 First meeting of Merseyside
Anti-Racialist Alliance
1979 First Merseyside'Reclaim the Night' Womens'
march through city centre
2005 Friends of Palestine picket Caterpillar's
Perkins plant in Irlam
2005 Train drivers bringMerseyrail to a halt on
Grand National weekend1982 Kirkby Unemployed
Centre opens 1976 First meeting of Liberty
Hall, alternative social club
1962 Pat Arrowsmith of CND arrested
at dockside meeting on nuclear disarmament
1984 CND 'surround and decorate' US
base at Burtonwood. Peace camp set up
1962 Irish Freedom March from Liverpool
arrives in London
2013 1,000 rally at StGeorge's Hall on day of
Margaret Thatcher funeral
1989 Boycott of Sunnewspaper after it
vilifies Liverpool fans atHillsborough stadium tragedy
1988 Kirkby ResponseTheatre founded
1919 Arnold Yates,bookseller, seen in
possession of leafletsaddressed to sailors
advocating revolution
1919 Protest march by unemployed
(demobilised) soldiers
1971 Public meeting at Stanley House
launches campaign to free Angela Davis1948 Tugboatmen strike
1983 One-day city-widestrike against privatisation
2001 Builders union UCATTunveils 'hod-carrier'
memorial on Islington tovictims of building accidents
1987 First Mutual Aid Centre opens
in Victoria Street in what is now Millennium House
1911 Suffragettes refuse to give names to census:
'No Vote, No Census'
Also in this month... 1920 20,000 dockers threaten strike demanding release of Irishrepublicans from Wormwood Scrubs prison (28th) 1985 School students strikes against YouthTraining Scheme slave labour, 10,000 march to Pier Head (25th)2004 Welsh Streets Homes Group set up to oppose demolition of ten streets in Liverpool 8
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HILLSBOROUGHDAY
WORKERSMEMORIAL DAY
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
1872 8,000 carters strike(one week) for better wages
1919 Public meetingdenounces conscription
measures still in force in peacetime
1987 First Mutual Aid Centre opens
in Victoria Street in what is now Millennium House
WorkersMemorial Day(28th)
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
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MAY 2015
1926 General Strike begins, solid in Liverpool
1912 Strike at Wilson'sBobbin Works, leading
to the 'Garston riots'
1972 George Pratt becomes first black City
Councillor (Clubmoor ward)- polling day was the 4th
1934 Clashes in streets as Oswald Mosley
addresses fascist rally
1949 Paul Robeson visitsLiverpool and sings to
10,000 crowd in Lord Street
1987 Liz Drysdale (Granby) & Judy Nelson
(Smithdown) become firstblack women City Councillors
2004 Friends of Palestinedemonstrate outside
Harold House against speaker Louise Ellman MP
1981 Margaret Simey, radical Labour
Councillor, appointed to chair Merseyside Police committee
1981 10,000 strike at Fordsto defeat new disciplinary
code (withdrawn on 22nd)
1984 'Women in White'march to save Duchess
ward in Womens hospital
1969 Rent-strikingAbercromby tenants
join students in demo when Princess
Alexandra visits University
1966 Liverpool at forefront of national
seamen's strike (till 1 July)
2010 Over 100 Cammell Lairds
repairers go on unofficial strike over job losses plan
1909 Anarchist-Communist Sunday
School distribute leaflets denouncing Empire Day
1955 Dockers six-weekstrike for recognition
of the 'Blue Union'
1919 Communist Mary Bamber wins
Everton ward for Labour
1839 15,000 attend Chartist demonstration
at Queens Square
2009 Liverpool Network Theatre perform Seven Jewish Children in
Writing on the Wall festival
1955 Labour has absolutemajority on the City
Council for the first time
1888 Inquiry report saysLiverpool women are theworst-paid in the country
1993 Falkner Square plaqueunveiled for black merchant
seamen of World War II
1981 Work-to-rule by 450 City council
typists quickly becomes an all-out strike for six months
1981 Liverpool BlackOrganisation occupy
Caribbean Centre
1974 News from Nowhere,radical bookshop, opens
1989 Day two of three-dayrooftop protest against
prison conditions at Risley Remand Centre
Also in this month... 1914 Five public meetings of Free Speech Joint Committee, in defianceof City Council prohibitions (3rd to 30th) 1934 First complete publication of James Hanley'snovel Boy (publishers later charged with obscenity) 1981 Merseyside Hunger Strike SupportersCommittee march to Pier Head in support of Irish hunger-striker Bobby Sands (2nd)
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MAY DAY
LEVELLERS DAY
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
1981 Peoples March forJobs arrives in London
1999 Trees at Park Nook (Princes Park)
occupied to stop developers building luxury flats
1919 Communist Mary Bamber wins Everton ward for Labour (21st)
1999 Trees at Park Nook (PrincesPark) occupied to stop developers
building luxury flats (31st)
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1997 Last event at the IrishCentre on Mount Pleasant
1848 Liverpool's Mayor callsfor larger military presence
because of civil unrest
1972 First internationalstrike begins
in Liverpool and Italy against Dunlop-Pirelli
1881 Irish republicans attempt
to blow up Town Hall
2001 Refugees go onhunger strike over appallingconditions in Landmark flats
1957 First meeting ofMerseyside Hydrogen
Bomb Protest Group
2001 Merseyside Against Detention
formed to protest against jailing of asylum-seekers
1911 Second day of seamens’ strike (led by Tom Mann)
1997 Rooftop protest toprotect Irish Centre on
Mount Pleasant
1840 John Finch founds Socialist Hall in
Lord Nelson Street
1977 Memorial stone laid to Robert Tressell
in Walton cemetery
1890 Women bookfoldersand stitchers win reductionof working day to ten hours
1937 Basque refugeechildren (from Spanish civil war) welcomed in
Liverpool and Birkenhead
1992 Communities ofResistance conference
marks 500 years ofconquest since Columbus
1904 The 'Secret in theStone' laid in the AnglicanCathedral foundations by
Fred Bower and Jim Larkin
1971 100 women and childrenblockade Prescot Road after
4-month safety campaign1979 Third day of first
week-long Liverpool Gay Pride celebrations
1996 James LarkinRepublican Flute
Band formed
1913 2,000 farm workers from Speke to Scarisbrick strike for better conditions
1872 Two-day train strike secures pay increase
Also in this month... 1948 State of emergency declared as dockers strike when refused protective clothingagainst chemicals (28th) 1984 City Council defies government and sets an 'illegal budget' to maintain services.47 councillors later surcharged (23rd) 1984 Cammell Lairds workers occupy gas rig to prevent the yard's closure(27th) 1999 Garden Festival Campaign formed to preserve river frontage from more luxury housing (23rd)
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WORLD REFUGEEDAY
1919 1600 Liverpool policeofficers stadium vote to
strike for union recognition2006 Peoples’ Centre
opens on Mount Pleasant1979 Formation of Liverpool
Black Organisation (LBO)
1981 Radical Labour councillor
Margaret Simey sets out plan for police accountability
1919 Charles Wootton, 24-year-old black Liverpudlian,chased by white crowd and
drowned in Queens Dock
1984 Cammell Lairds workersoccupy gas rig to prevent the
yard's closure (27th)
1997 Rooftop protest toprotect Irish Centre onMount Pleasant (16th)
“Long Live Socialism” - Inspired by Adrian Henri's visionary artwork "The Entry of Christ Into Liverpool". In 2007/8 College Start - Entry Level Art Class atLiverpool Community College (students with mental health problems) created this collage. Tutors; Cathy Noble, Judy Mazonowicz, Support; Sam Gantley
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1984 Cammell Lairdshipyard occupation takes over destroyer
HMS Edinburgh
1981 Start of Liverpool 8 uprising
('the riots')
1913 Suffragette Edith Rigby sets
off bomb at Liverpool Exchange Buildings
1958 Open-air rally greets peace
marchers from Hull2001 First Arabic
Arts Festival
1981 First public statement of Liverpool 8
Defence Committee
2012 Mass gathering of street musicians
on Church Street defies Council anti-busking plans
1991 Terry Fields MPjailed for 60 days after refusing to pay poll tax
1819 Liverpool's first Orange parade 'put to
flight by the Irish'
1912 Orange and GreenBand marches through
Garston after police brutality
2009 Friends of Palestine picket concert
of Leonard Cohen as his tour includes Tel- Aviv
1971 First edition of Liverpool Free
Press, 'News you're not supposed to know'
1917 War poet SiegfriedSassoon throws his Military
Cross ribbon into theMersey at Formby beach
1937 Merseyside SpanishAid Committee publicmeeting in Picton Hall
2012 First of one-day strikes by Birkenhead
Remploy workers against factory closure plans
1847 Daniel O'Connell'sbody lies in state on the
Mersey en route fromLondon to Dublin
1972 Liverpool Echo is notprinted for three days amid
actions supporting jailed'Pentonville 5' dockers
1910 Patricia Woodlockspeaks at Hyde Park rally,
'From Prison to Citizenship'
1848 Irish Confederatesarrested in possession
of pikes amid rumours of insurrection
2007 1,000 march against cuts in,
and privatisation of postal services
1989 7,000 seamen end seven-week strike
2001 Hunger strike at Walton prison by
detained asylum-seekers
1848 500 dockers refuse to become
special constables and lose their jobs
1889 Formation of Tramway Employees
Association despite heavy employer pressure
Also in this month... 1796 Edward Rushton's 'Letter to Washington' challenges the President'spractice of owning slaves while advocating liberty1895 Bitter dispute at Jackson's Rope Works after machine tears young girl to pieces in frontof her mother (29th) 1982 Croxteth Comp school taken over by the community (13th)
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1996 Ploughshares activists acquitted at Crown
Court after damaging Hawk fighter aircraft
1919 Liverpool police join in national strike
1982 CroxtethComp schooltaken over by thecommunity (13th)
Edward Rushton,Liverpool's blind poet
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AUGUST 2015
1898 Trades Council 50year 'jubilee' in Stanley Park
despite City Council ban
1920 Printers strike stops Daily Post and
Echo for three weeks
2013 City centre leafleting against
British attack on Syria
1982 Michael Heseltine peltedafter meeting at occupied
Croxteth Comp School
1995 Postal workers fromLiverpool organise three
lorryloads of 'Aid for Bosnia'
1914 Labour complains that 'greedy and
grasping members of the capitalist class
are enriching themselves'
2008 Parents AgainstClosure demonstrate
over plans to close Croxteth Comp
1911 1000 railway goodsporters come out on strike.
Other transport workerscome out in support
1919 955 striking Liverpoolpolice officers dismissed
2006 'Red Card for Israel'given out as Liverpool FC
play Maccabi Haifa
1912 60,000 attend Sheil Park rally to
mark first anniversary of Bloody Sunday
1911 Liverpool's BloodySunday - police attack
transport strike rally, injuring hundreds
1911 Liverpool Generaltransport strike declared
1981 Liverpool 8 DefenceCommittee demonstration
against Chief Constable
2014 Die-in and march to protest
Israel's invasion of Gaza
1960 Paddy Neary, Liverpoolseaman, jailed in seamen's
strike - protests follow
1889 40 Liverpool dockers are lured to London
to break the dock strike there but refuse to do so
2009 Strike by baggage-handlers at Liverpool airport
1995 Firefighters' one-day actions turn
into a nine-month strike
1823 Slave uprising on estate of John (father of William)
Gladstone in Demerara
1920 Council of Actionformed to oppose
war with Russia
1880 Mass meeting in the Trades Hall
protests at discrimination against black sailors
1987 Mike Field arrested for shouting 'rich
parasite' at Princess Diana
2011 Picket at LiverpoolMutual Homes as older
workers are laid off.Strike action follows
Also in this month... 1989 200 Bootle residents support dockers who refuse to handle toxicchemical (PCB) cargo from Montreal (16th) 2004 Childcare social workers strike (till Jan 2005)(24th) 2010 First Nerve Centre opens at the old Rapid paint shop on Hardman St (13th)
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HIROSHIMA DAY
SLAVERYREMEMBRANCE
DAY
1775 Seamens’ Revolt:1,000 sailors bombard
Town Hall with ships cannon
2006 Firefighters strike against proposed
cuts to services
2014 Die-in and march to protestIsrael's invasion of Gaza
2010 First Nerve Centre opensat the old Rapid paint shop onHardman St (13th)
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
“9th August” by John O'Neill (Inspired by Goya's “The Third of May”). The shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown Jnr. in Ferguson led to weeks of protest.
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1972 Shrewsbury building-site picket.
24 are later prosecuted
1921 Mass demonstration of unemployed besieges
Town Hall, demands 'Work not Maintenance'.
Daily protests follow2006 Demonstration in
support of asylum-seekers
1990 Peoples March against Poll tax leaves
Liverpool for London
1978 First 'Rock Against Racism' gig in Walton Hall Park
1974 Liverpool picket ofChilean consulate on first
anniversary of Pinochet coup
1921 Unemployeddemonstrators occupy
Walker Art Gallery and arebrutally evicted by police
1973 Merseyside ChileSolidarity formed as 200
protest outside Chileanconsulate after Pinochet
coup two days earlier
2007 Next to Nowhere social centre
opens on Bold Street
1913 3,500 railway workers block trade with
Dublin in support of locked-out workers (one week)
1960 March through city by Merseyside Hydrogen Bomb Protest Committee
1932 Fourth consecutiveday of demonstrations
forces Birkenhead council toincrease Public Assistance
1893 New Zealand is first country to
introduce votes for women. Campaign led by Liverpool-
born Kate Sheppard1971 Scotland Road
Free School opens
2006 Elizabeth Pascoe wins court order to
stop Edge Lane developers
2014 Merseyside Stop theWar leaflet in City centreagainst bombing of Iraq
1995 Liverpool dock dispute begins (lasts
until January 1998)
1973 Dockers' boycott of Chilean shipping
(in protest at Pinochet coup) made official union policy
1931 Islington Square rally of 10,000 'against
starvation amidst plenty'attacked by police
2001 Merseyside Against Detention protest
outside Liverpool prison in support of jailed refugees
2008 Final (3rd) day of first Working-Class
Music Festival at Picket
1974 Womens Information Centre at
49 Seel Street opened
1997 Striking Liverpooldockers occupy cranes
in Port of Sheerness
Also in this month... 1838 First Chartist demonstration at the Old Infirmary (StGeorge's Plateau) (25th) 1974 Netherley Flat-Dwellers Action Group protest against'Colditz flats' at Town Hall (18th) and occupation of housing office (27th)2004 Memorial erected on Princes Avenue to jailed native American Leonard Peltier
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1890 TUC Congress in Liverpool calls for
8-hour limit to working day1982 Liverpool 8
Law Centre founded
1797 Liverpool slave shipThomas taken over by
African slaves for 42 days
1911 Liverpool-born DeliaLarkin helps found IrishWomen Workers Union
UN INTERNATIONALDAY OF PEACE
1894 Clarion socialistcycling club visit
Knowsley estate of Earl of Derby 'who did not invite us
to dinner' and leaflet tenants1995 Liverpool dock dispute
begins (lasts until January 1998)
1999 First event for revivedLiberty Hall at the Zanzibar (6th)
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OCTOBER 2015
1984 Cammell Lairdshipyard workers jailed for amonth to end shipyard sit-in
1987 Demonstration forNamibian independence
1936 Merseyside Peace Week ends
with a 3,000-strong march
1989 Building Brigadestravel to Nicaragua
1995 Ken Loach's film Land and Freedom
about Liverpool volunteer in Spanish civil war
1982 Everyman theatre stages
Girls in the Pool, based on council typists' 1981 strike
2000 Formation of People Not Profit
1972 Rent strikes begin inKirkby and Birkenhead
1937 Fascist rally at QueensDrive halted when Oswald
Mosley is struck by a stone
2008 Freedom of Expression
Day - protest against harassment of political stalls
2013 National Anti-Fascist march in
Liverpool (hosted by Unite) 2005 First John Peel Day1939 80-strong womens’
demonstration against war
2011 'Occupy Liverpool'protesters take over Barclays
Bank for the afternoon
1863 Rev Harry Beecher addresses
packed meeting in support of North
in American civil war
1757 Anti-militia riot on day of Mayoral
election closes city centre
1947 Unity Theatre performs 'The Match
Girls Strike', based on Bryant and May 1889 strike
1983 Frankie Goes to Hollywood
release single Relax
1975 International Day ofAction by rubber workers -6000 come out at Dunlops
1936 200 marchers leaveLiverpool to join the Jarrow
Hunger march to London
1991 Liverpool 8 LawCentre organises march
against police harassment
1974 'Petticoat Pickets' win womens 17-week
strike at Wingrove and Rogers electrical firm
Also in this month... 1863 Liverpool Emancipation Society denounces John Laird for buildingthe Alabama for the Confederates (30th) 1968 Abercromby tenants begin rent strike (lasts overeight months) 1981 Day-care Abortion Unit opens (Bradford clinic) after long campaign bywomens rights groups
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1972 One-day dock strike and 3,000-strong march against
council rent increases
UNITED NATIONSDAY
SUMMER TIMEENDS
1987 Visit of Sam Nujoma, future (SWAPO)
President of Namibia
1982 First broadcast ofYosser's story, instalment of
Boys from the Blackstuff
WORLD MENTALHEALTH DAY
1947 Unity Theatreperforms 'The MatchGirls Strike' (25th)
1972 Rent strikesbegin in Kirkby and
Birkenhead (9th)
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NOVEMBER 2015
2004 First Homotopia,Liverpool's current
gay festival
2011 Five protesters scaledrilling rig near Southport in
protest against fracking
2010 Demonstrators occupycity Vodafone store in
protest against tax evasion
1890 Trades Council Mass Indignation
Meeting in Birkenhead as 8 trade unionists
jailed for'intimidation'
1913 Liverpool-born JohnArcher elected Britain's first
black mayor, in Battersea
1921 Bread Not Medals - Unemployed workers demonstrate
at Armistice parade1983 Peace camp set up at
Capenhurst nuclear plant
1984 Black Caucus leadmarch to Town Hall and
disrupt City Council overappointment of Sam Bondas 'race relations adviser'
1885 Irish Home Rule leader Charles Stewart
Parnell addresses crowd on St George's Plateau
1911 Big suffragette rally in London, PatriciaWoodlock and over 200 others arrested
2000 Greenpeace 'ChickenRun' halts GM soya mill
(Cargills) on Gladstone dock
1950 Mass meeting of Colonial Peoples
Defence Association with MP Bessie Braddock
2009 Second day of prison officers' strike over 'bullying and harassment'
1922 Liverpool HungerMarch arrives in London
1985 Plaque unveiled to 27Merseyside volunteers whodied fighting for the republic
in the Spanish civil war
2011 Baggage-handlers at Liverpool
airport strike to save jobs
1998 Monument to victims of Great Irish Famine
unveiled by Irish President Mary McAleese at St Luke's
1969 John Lennon returnsMBE to Buckingham Palace
2011 Occupy Liverpool set up camp at base of Wellington column
1974 One-day general strike in support of the
jailed 'Shrewsbury 2' pickets
Also in this month... 1781 133 slaves thrown overboard from Liverpool-owned slave-ship Zong. Outcry boosts abolition campaign (29th) 1819 Radical pamphleteerWilliam Cobbett returns from America with bones of Tom 'Rights of Man' Paine 1995 Women of the Waterfront formed to support striking dockers
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1920 Irish nationalists burn down 17 warehouses
on Liverpool waterfront
1980 Over 100,000 join national TUC
march to the Pier Head against unemployment
2011 15,000 march to StGeorge's Hall againstGovernment austerity
1983 Peace camp set up atCapenhurst nuclear plant (13th)
2011 Occupy Liverpool set up campat base of Wellington column (26th)
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1913 Jim Larkin and BillHayward address Sun
Hall meeting in support oflocked-out workers of Dublin
1973 Kirkby rent strikersBrian Owen and Larry Doylejailed for 'contempt of court'
1973 Nightly demonstrations outside
Walton prison in support of Brian Owen who remains
in prison for 'contempt'
2000 Fidel Castro unveils statue to
John Lennon in Cuba
1999 Black Liverpudlian Eric Lynch denounces City Council 'apology'
for the slave trade
1975 British Withdrawalfrom Northern Ireland
14 (including two Liverpudlians) acquitted of Incitement to Disaffection
1911 400 bargemen on Leeds-Liverpool canal strike in overtime dispute
1938 Merseyside Spain Aid Committee
ship sails for Spain with supplies for republicans
2004 First meeting ofLiverpool Social Forum
1980 30,000 gather on St.George's Plateau for vigil
after John Lennon's death
1973 Kirkby rent strike ends after 14 months
as five more are jailed for 'contempt of court'
1885 Liverpool Scotlandconstituency elects Irish nationalist MP
1888 Seamens’strike (till 18th Feb)
1909 Suffragettes force-fed on hunger-strike
in Liverpool prison
1965 Abolition of DeathPenalty Bill introduced byleft-wing Jewish Liverpool
MP Sidney Silverman
1908 Jim Larkin becomes founder secretary
of Irish Transport andGeneral Workers Union
2007 Picket of Cricket fashion shop to protest against sale of
fur products (also 22nd)
Also in this month... 1749 Liverpool slave ship Scipio blown up by insurrection offWest African coast 1953 Conference on Freedom of Speech to fight City Councilcensorship of Unity theatre (6th) 1971 Gypsy Free School in Shaw Street opens
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2008 Church Street vigil protests against
Israel's invasion of Gaza
WORLD AIDS DAY
2007 Turner Art Prizeawards in Liverpool
upstaged by Stop the Waralternative exhibition
1998 First James LarkinCommemoration march
1938 Merseyside SpainAid Committee ship
sails for Spain (12th)
2007 Picket of Cricketfashion shop against saleof fur products (29th)