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Unsung: Liverpool’s M

ost Radical Son

Celebrating the life of E

dward R

ushton 1756-1814See the exhibitions

until 10th May 2015 at:

Museum

of Liverpool, International Slavery Museum

,Victoria G

allery and Museum

See the playby John G

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here

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

white, and also for their M

erseyside link. Thanks to everyone who subm

itted work. That

some im

ages were not used in no w

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

Editorial Team: Jerem

y Haw

thorn, Paul H

unt,R

itchie Hunter, C

olin Serjent, K

ai Andersen,

Tracey Dunn, Joe C

oventry, Sue H

unter,Laura N

aylor, John Ow

en C

ontributors:Minnie Stacey, Tom

Calderbank, A

rthur Adlen, John D

avies, TedS

eagrave, Elspeth M

cLean, Jane Hughes,

Cate S

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onth's images for artist details

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aul Hunt

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ages of 11 threatenedlibraries, from

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efton Park Library

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reativePeopleN

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ork.N

ervew

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ith the development of

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art LeeC

ompetition

In the last edition of Nerve w

e set a competition

for a lucky Nerve

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The Life and Deaths of a Stand-U

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edic partner in the1990's B

BC

TV series 'Fist of Fun'?”

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ichard Herring.

The winner w

as Matthew

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fromW

allasey. Matthew

is shown here receiving his

prizes in the Nerve

office.

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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.

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g can

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e swore an

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lamed

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ife for h

idin

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e start of a lo

ng list as th

ings g

ot w

orse.

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e, forever at h

is feet, w

as cursed

, as was in

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urse.

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ly dogs co

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oss h

ad lo

st a sense o

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priety,

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on

Tim

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ign

ity.

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’s wife, as alw

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ings w

ellth

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gh

she h

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horrid

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ts wh

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ixed cau

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emotio

n an

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ish p

ure D

evotio

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A carer called

each d

ayan

d h

elped

as best sh

e cou

ldb

ut m

ost o

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rew

hen

times g

ot to

ugh

er still.R

espite w

as the o

nly d

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that o

pen

ed to

revival of A

nn

e’s Will,

wh

ich w

as the k

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er survival.

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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

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y Force fo

r Good

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een a p

rivilege to

kn

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an,

bu

t cursin

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rayed o

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rse.O

nly h

is faithfu

l lurch

er still looked

up

to h

im.

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at remain

ed o

f family lived

abro

ad;

An

ne ch

ose n

ot to

let them

kn

ow

un

til……

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sigh

t,years lin

gered

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n.

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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’,

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der b

lessing o

n h

is lips,

no g

aspin

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ou

t;D

an ju

st fizzled

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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

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e mayo

r says they can

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into

tow

nO

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ad u

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to a lap

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us fares are h

uge an

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pen

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ing w

ill stop

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ledge u

p h

ere on

ou

r shelves

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feed yo

u lo

ve – or yo

ur rag

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ut yo

ur lead

ers are keep

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selves T

hey k

now

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er of th

e pag

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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.

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w.dem

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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)

www.catalystmedia.org.ukNerve 2015 Love, Hope and Resistance Calendar

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)

Mike and Alex reading the papers in Breck Road Community Library, by Jane Hughes


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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)


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)

“We Were Once a Proud Port”- Derelict buildings near the Pier Head by Jan Sear


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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


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


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

Scotland Road Rag pickers day out in New Brighton


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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)


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)

Pride!


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JUNE 2015

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)


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)


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

Liverpool 8 Defence Committee March against Chief Constable Oxford, 1981


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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)


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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SEPTEMBER 2015

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


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)

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower" Albert Camus - Photograph by Colin Serjent


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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


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)

1910 Women's Suffrage demonstration outside Liverpool Central Library


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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


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)

Photo by Alan Carr

Bar Staff sacked for wearing mini-skirts - Image from Kirkby Unemployed Centre


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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


HUMAN RIGHTSDAY

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

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)

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