calendar London rebel history 2015

the London rebel history calendar:

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next year in full colour...!

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welcome... to Past Tense’s second annual calendar, commemorating some of London’s radical, riotous and rebellious (and even some repressive) anniversaries. We hope to keep on publishing every year until the past runs out... if you like it, help us - send us more dates for next year! in honour of 100 years of resistance to war, there’s a fair few World War One dates scattered herein... we apologise in advance for unforced errors, typos or miscalculations due to some old pope fiddling with his celestials... and our undoubted obsession with autonomous direct action. email: [email protected]

Empty office blocks for all! The squatting of Centrepoint, 1974 January

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1 2 3 4 New Year’s Bloody Mary Day Science Fiction Day World Braille Day Resolution: join a gang, and storm Aliens Act comes into force, 1906, sparked by US anarchist Emma London apprentices Socialism really is just a the barges, jails and fear of foreign radical Goldman begins organizing petition for peace in matter of efficient synagogues... exiles & Jewish migration solidarity in London for Civil War, Westminster, management: Fabian into London. Spanish Revolution, 1937 1643 Society founded 1884. 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Apple Tree Day I’m not going to take it any- Static Electricity Day Peculiar People Day Learn Your name in Morse more Day Code Day Workers Socialist A strike of Conscientious Failed attempt to set fire Camden council tenants Eviction resistance at Federation public meeting French police spy objectors imprisoned in to the Palace of Whitehall vote against transfer to Auguste Coulon is expelled First British anti-nuclear attacked for their anti-war Sutton St squat centre, Wandsworth Prison ends by disaffected Levellers, Arms Length from anarchist Club, protest: mass sit down in stance, Limehouse, 1917 Limehouse, 2006 in their release, 1919. 1657 Management, 2004. Autonomie, 1892 front of War office, 1952. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Sceptics Day Nothing Day Cable Car Day

Colin Roach shot dead OutRage scrub In a trance, Fifth Monarchist Daily Mail supports British 'Stop the War' meeting prophetess Anna Trapnel in Stoke Newington cop- 38 Lollards hanged on Parliament Clean Of Union of Fascists, with Brotherhood Church, Empty office blocks for shop, sparks community St Giles Fields after Homophobia with mops headline “hurrah for the Islington, attacked by pro- denounces Oliver Cromwell, all: Centrepoint uprising, 1983. failed rebellion, 1414. and brushes, 1991 Blackshirts!', 1934 war mob, 1916. Whitehall, 1654 squatted, 1974 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Talk like a Grizzled Penguin Awareness Day Answer Your Cat’s Questions Day Seed Swap Day Prospector Day

John Wilkes expelled A gang known as 'the Squatters demo at Picket of Dartmouth Arms The Music Hall War: Daily Herald founded as from House of Royal Family' storm Hackney Town Hall ends pub, Forest Hill, which Feisty gay pub Vauxhall compositors strike bulletin, Commons for libelling Westminster Gatehouse to in ruck with the police, variety artists strike refused to serve black Tavern raided by the 1911 - becomes leading the king, 1764 free arrested mate, 1748 1993. begins, 1907. people, 1965 police, 1987 left paper. 26 27 28 29 30 31 Data Privacy Day Freethinkers Day (Tom Paine’s Day Backward birthday). 500 Jewish unemployed Military Service Act comes invade Great Synagogue ‘Anti-German League’ Southall comes to a halt into law, 1916 - Prince Regent's coach 60 hungry men & women for the funeral of fascist demanding aid from picket anti-WW1 meeting, conscription into mass stoned after opening of riot, seizing grain from Brotherhood Church, murder victim Kuldip Singh Chief Rabbi, 1894. slaughter of WW1 begins. parliament, 1817 barges, Wanstead, 1629 Islington, 1916 Selchon, 1990. The Cato Street Conspirators resist arrest, 1820 February

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1 We are all the Work Naked Day Godless College. Arson attack seriously damages Freedom anarchist bookshop, 2013 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Play your Ukelele Day Kite-flying Day

Chartist National 7-month London 1000s of soldiers Lambeth Council Leader's 165 Jubilee Street, Electricians strike forces office occupied in protest Whitechapel, opens as Convention opens, British the cancellation of Crufts Builders lockout ends mutiny, Victoria Station, Lesbians abseil into house & march, armed, on at impending eviction of of lords protesting anti-gay anarchist “Workers’ Friend Hotel, Charing Cross, Dog Show, Kensington in uneasy War office, 1919 squatted 121 Centre, Section 28 law, 1988. Club & Institute”, 1906. 1839 Olympia, 1954. Ruff deal. compromise, 1859. 1999 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Read in the Bath Day Extra-terrestrial Culture Day Darwin Day Ferris Wheel Day

2 million or so march to Miles Sindercombe found The Godless College opens: Local kids and squatters Early anarchist philosophy: Leading freethinker of Crowd of youths loot William Godwin's Political Hyde Park, against guilty of plots to University College London, resist eviction of squatted shopping centre, asassinate Cromwell, his age, Richard Carlile first university to admit school, Colliers Wood, Justice, first published, imminent invasion of 1657; sentenced to death. dies, London 1843. non-Anglicans, 1826 2004. Plumstead, 1986. 1793. Iraq, 2003. 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 Random Acts of Kindness Day Drink Wine Day Sticky Bun Day

Wandsworth Prison: 5000 sit down in first Footmen riot in Drury Anarchist Club Autonomie Military prisoners attack A short sharp strike Anarchists Vernon Richards raided by cops, 1894, screws, inspired by fellow- Committee of 100 anti- Lane, after being denied leads to higher wages, Marx & Engels’ and Marie Louise Berneri though was rife with spies inmates, ‘disorderly consci- nuclear protest Ministry the right to watch plays, Victoria & Albert Docks, Communist Manifesto nicked over their anti-war by then. entious objectors’, 1919. of Defence, 1961. 1737 1915. first published, 1848 propaganda, 1945. 23 24 25 26 27 28 Tell a fairytale Day Inconvenience Yourself Day Open that Bottle Night

Occupy camp Cato St Conspiracy: Clashes in Hyde Park Black revolutionary Goldsmiths College Lord Byron speaks up radicals busted planning between cops & doleys Robert Wedderburn’s occupied over for the Luddites in evicted from grounds to kill Cabinet & launch after demo against blasphemy trial begins, student expulsions, maiden speech in House of St Paul's Cathedral,

revolution, 1820. Unemployment Act, 1935 Kings Bench, 1820 1999 of Lords, 1812 2012

...probably saving his life... his saving ...probably however: arrest & remand for this likely kept him out of out him kept likely this for remand & arrest however: The Bawdy House Rioters trash a brothel, 1668... March

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When they tell you 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dr Seuss Day Mulled Wine Day Absinthe Day to eat less - remember blood Grow Heathrow: market Black Peoples Day of Army Levellers Popular justice: 2 self- Apprentices celebrate First UK Women's and bone make garden squatted, Action, 1981: angry cashiered after Shrove Tuesday, rioting, employed agents provoca- lovely fertiliser... Sipson, against airport response to New Cross petitioning for political freeing prisoners, teurs in Smithfield pillory Liberation march, expansion, 2010 Fire. reform, 1649 trashing theatres, 1617. beaten by mob, 1756. London, 1971 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 International Women’s Day Barbie Day (!?) Fill your stapler Day Earmuffs Day

Councillors setting poll tax Obscene Publications Anti-war activists the William Cashman Occupation of London Squatters barricade Crowded Chartist meeting rate showered with paper Squad raid underground Wheldon family convicted at Crown & Anchor pub hanged for involvement School of Economics, after Stamford Hill estate to planes, Ealing Town Hall, paper international of plot to murder PM Lloyd split over whether to use in the Spa Fields riots, two students suspended resist eviction, 1988. 1990 times, 1967 George, Old Bailey, 1917. violence, 1839 Clerkenwell, 1817 following a demo, 1967. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Pi Day Freedom of Information Day Submarine Day World Storytelling Day

Crowds cheer the Biggest Britsh anti- Institute For Autonomy Government announces 200 squatters resist During struggle between 1789: Catherine Murphy is release of the king Henry III & barons, a Vietnam War demo, last person burned at the squatted social centre, abandonment of the Poll Birmingham 6, Old the eviction of Effra week of anti-royal rioting 1968, ends in a barney stake in England; at Newgate Bloomsbury, opens Tax, 1991. All hail the Bailey, 1991. Parade, Brixton, 1984. begins in London, 1264. with old Bill. – for counterfeiting. 2005. Council Tax. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Single Parents Day Asteroid Near Miss Day Waffle Day Make up your own Holiday Day

National Union of the Battle of Temple Bar, 1668: Bawdy House 300 march for veteran Working Classes ridicules anarchist Albert Kings Cross Women's South London Women's official Fast (to placate God 1769: Wilkes & Liberty Rioters attack brothels... 5000 unemployed over Cholera epidemic!) with rioters bash royalist but Leveller sympathies Meltzer’s funeral, Centre, Tonbridge demonstrate outside Hospital occupation demo & feasting, 1832. procession. lurk beneath the surface... Lewisham, 1996. Street, evicted, 1996. parliament, 1963. evicted, 1985. 28 29 30 31 Weed Appreciation Day Smoke & Mirrors Day

Pro-Choice rally opposes 300 arrested in sit- Socialist, feminist, 40 day picket on British 1917: Herald League down protest at US Air pioneer of nursery school Pregnancy Advisory convene huge meeting Force headquarters, education, Margaret Service, Bedford Square, celebrating Russian Ruislip, 1964. MacMillan dies 1931. 2012 Revolution, Albert Hall.

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1 2 3 4 5 bunkers, embassies, Atheist Day Tell a Lie Day Walk around things Day button factories - Oscar Wilde’s libel trial Homeless evicted from Clashes between racist Local residents trash against Marquis of the world belongs Button Factory Squat Cardboard City Waterloo, skins and Asian planning inquiry about Queensberry collapses, to us centre, Brixton, 1998, to make way for residents, Southall, proposed new East End 1895; he’s charged with evicted, 2001. flash cinema... 1981. motorway, 2005 gross indecency. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Plan your Epitaph Day International Roma Day Name Yourself Day Walk on your wild side Day

1946: 600 strike at Spies for Peace mail out 10th national Women’s Dockers/Reclaim the Mini-riot at Wapping Utopian communist 20,000 march from Bow Smithfield meat market guide to secret Liberation Conference Streets March for during printers’ William Godwin dies, in largest anti-WW1 - Labour govt sends government bunkers opens, City university, Social Justice turns into lockout, 1986. 1836. protest to date, 1916 troops in 6 days later. everywhere, 1963 1977. police riot, 1997 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Library Workers Day Amateur Radio Day Garlic Day

Ex-soldiers attack Socialism emerges from Anarchist Henry Sara, National Unemployed London radicals hold Arrests of radicals in arrested & badly beaten, British Union of Workers Union founded, demo in Hyde Park in its Radical cradle? Clerkenwell pub, as they Riot along Oxford St 1916, for refusing Fascists march, International Socialist solidarity with the Paris Bradlaugh vs Hyndman plan uprising to coincide after CND demo - 48 conscription into WW1. Whitechapel, 1937. Club, Hoxton, 1921 Commune, 1871 debate, 1884 with Irish revolt, 1798. nicked, 1986. 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Talk Like Shakespeare Day Hug a Plumber Day Police smash press Squatted South London printing anti-conscription Meat porters strike, John Wilkes criticises Gerrard Winstanley East London socialist Gay Centre (London’s paper the Tribunal, 1918; Smithfield, but in support Nazi nutter David the king’s speech in publishes The True demo attacked by first), Brixton, evicted, but it continues, printed by of dodgy tory racist Enoch Copeland bombs Brick North Briton paper - Levellers Standard “patriotic crowd”, 1917 1974 hand press. Powell, 1968. Lane, 1999 he’s nicked, 1763 Advanced, 1649 27 28 29 30

Reform Bill Riots, Greek Embassy Sit down protest, 1831: crowds occupation, Iranian Embassy Pentonville Prison, demanding political protesting military occupied by anti-Shah during wave of jail change kick off. coup, 1967 protestors, 1975. disturbances, 1986. John Bellingham apprehended, after shooting dead May

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1 2 3 you want a bigger International Workers Day International Tuba Day

slice of the pie... One of old English Gange The first workers’ Wapping mini-riot on you’d better get Days - once a bun & beer the Highway, after Mayday marches in fest; later turned into local your skates on London attacked by border-enforcement as 7000 march in printers’ police, 1890. Beating the Bounds. dispute, 1986. 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 No Homework Day General Election Day

Article on draft dodgers Nicked in raid on Mother Apprentices riot at Unemployed attempt to Another mass demo Fighting all over London Clap’s Mollyhouse, Gabriel Dock workers refuse to Lambeth Palace, 1640, hiding in hills sparks a raid occupy the Ministries of load armaments for use on offices of anarchist demands electoral between cops & Lawrence, William Griffin & demanding freeing of Freedom/Voice of Labour Health and Labour, reform, Hyde Park, strikers, in General Thomas Wright hung for by Allies against Soviet John Lilburne. papers, 1916. 1930 1867. Strike, 1926 ‘sodomy’, Tyburn, 1726 Russia, 1920. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Twilight Zone Day World Whisky Day

Servants riots at London Corresponding Monster meetings at First of 7 raids on London compositors finally 112 Black Watch Soldiers Ranelagh Pleasure Society radicals Tower Hill & Stepney communist Workers go back to work 4 days desert en masse, Finchley, Gardens, demanding arrested, 1794 - Green in massive East Dreadnought ‘paper Bread riot in after General Strike called & march off for Scotland, bigger ‘vails’ (tips), 1764. charged with treason. End tailors strike, 1912. offices in 8 days, 1920 Whitechapel, 1855 off, 1926. 1743 (see July 17th) 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Goth Day

John Bellingham hanged in Suffragettes resisting Gunpowder plot Thomas Paine charged Attempt to bomb new Lesbians invade BBC Newgate for offing Prime 1911 census hold mass hatched, at Dog & with sedition in Paddington Green police news in protest at Minister Spencer Perceval, midnight ice skate, Duck Tavern, the absentia, his Rights Of Station,1970 - fails to anti-gay law Section ‘Hackney Anarchy 1812. Aldwych. Strand, 1604. Man banned, 1792 go off. 28, 1988 Week’ begins, 1996. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

Black Act comes into Horatio Bottomley, Oscar Wilde convicted Murky shenanigans at Stoke Newington 8 trial 100s attend tube party of gross indecency for Discharged soldiers & force, 1723, a charter the Contraflow Sex ultra-jingoist WW1 go on trial for Angry against banning of alco- being gay,1895 - gets 2 sailors fight police in of repression and death Café, 121, Brixton, MP/war profiteer, Brigade bomb attacks , hol on London years hard labour. Westminster, 1919. for the poor. 1995 jailed for fraud, 1922. Old Bailey, 1972 underground…2008 Emily Wilding DavisonÕs funeral procession, June 1913 June

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1 2 3 4 5 6 Huge vats of fat light a Hot air balloon day ...tonight we’re Gay News publishes poem merry pyre. Chelsea: anarchist about Jesus having sex Noisy Anarchist Black gonna party like Paper supplies at King’s candlemaker Lord Chief Justice with roman soldiers, 1976 Fritz Brall nicked for Convoys Wharf hit by Sampson Rainforth’s ware- Cross demo in solidarity Mansfield’s Bloomsbury it’s 1595... - and get prosecuted for planning bombings, arson during printers’ house burned for grassing with prisoners, HMP mansion burnt by 1894 (he gets off). dispute, 1986. blasphemy. on Gordon rioters, 1780. Brixton, 2012. Gordon Rioters, 1780 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Loving Day Blame Someone Else Day Emily Hobhouse, WW1 Running fight between 187 women machinists, pacifist, campaigner Huge turnout for Ford factory, Dagenham, against British Boer War 100 cops and 300 Edward Oxford shoots Westminster Abbey Riot in the City over the Bloomsbury funeral in of strike for equal pay with concentration camps, dies, youth at Brockwell Park at, & misses, Queen is bombed by price of fish, 1595 - suffragette Emily men, 1968 London, 1926. Fair, 1973 Victoria, 1840 Suffragettes, 1914. weeks of unrest follow. Wilding Davison, 1913 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 International Panic Day Gin Day

Yokels storm top Canadian soldiers 1987: 28 nicked out- 1877: Secularists Charles Sylvia Pankhurst’s WSF becomes first british fortress shock: Tower of demanding side S African Embassy Canal Flats mass Bradlaugh & Annie Besant Rioting breaks out demo on anniversary of charged with selling Communist Party, 1920, after Peckham London falls to revolting demobilisation riot in squat evicted, obscene literature – birth (later disowned by peasants, 1381. Epsom, 1919 1976 Soweto uprising. Paddington, 1974. control advice. Comintern as too leftwing). funfair, 1981. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 World Humanist Day

1724: Wapping Minters Second one day strike Finsbury Park: patriotic Reformer, Jacobin, First prisoners black their faces, threaten Surrey Diggers trade unionist Havelock failed vicar, John admitted to state of 11 protestants burnt constables - for which of the year paralyses arrested and charged Wilson supporters beat up to death for heresy, Charles Towers later London underground, Horne Tooke born, the art Millbank anti-war socialists. 1917 hangs. 1989 with trespass, 1649 1736. Penitentiary, 1816. Smithfield, 1556 28 29 30 Meteor Watch Day 1000s of apprentices Second Fare Dodgers march on Tower Hill, Hippies picket News of Liberation Front tube planning to ransack gun the World after NoW party ends in one shops, rob the rich and sets up Rolling Stones arrest,1995 take over the City… 1595 drugs bust, 1967. Bethnal Green Hospital occupied by its workers, July 1978. July

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1 2 3 4 5 behind bars... still Disobedience Day you can break free... even in uniform... Bethnal Green Anarchists protest The body of Richard Bengali youths respond Malcolm MacLaren Parker, executed leader (but see August hospital occupied by waste of money on to abuse from white helps turn Goldsmiths of Nore naval mutiny, youths: pitched battle in 1st...) workers to prevent royal wedding, Hyde publicly exhibited in College festival into its closure, 1978 Park, 1893. Whitechapel pub, 1797 Brick Lane, 1987. mini-riot, 1969. 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Lavender Hill police Dan Chatterton, Mass protest against Chartist leader Ernest Enfield Chase: Fighting Protests in the ranks First Chartist station petrol bombed atheist, communist. enclosures, Wanstead Jones released from 2 between soldiers & locals; after a soldier is flogged petition for electoral & temporarily shut class warrior, dies, Flats: fences demolished. years solitary in Tothill a tense time after May to death, Hounslow reform rejected in down, 1987. 1895 1871. Fields Prison, 1850 anti-enclosure riot, 1659 Barracks, 1864. Parliament, 1839 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Pandemonium Day

1991: Neil Fernandez Ruth Ellis hanged at International Social Three men from the Black lodging house Holloway Prison - the Mad Pride festival, acquitted of burning a Revolutionary & Anarchist porsche in the poll tax riot Black Watch regiment residents arm to defend Democracy Village last woman executed in Congress held in Kings Clissold Park, - (luckily police witness shot at the Tower for themselves against race peace camp Parliament Britain, 1955 Cross pub, 1881. Hackney, 2000. proved to be lying). mutiny, 1743 riot, Lewisham, 1949 Square evicted 2010 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Hammock Day

Agency cleaners in Residents block St Pancras: A rioting 5 apprentices hanged Yiddish Socialist Annual West End Fair, Parliament strike over Western Avenue, Acton, crowd drove out a The Pan-African drawn & quartered for paper, the Poilishe Hampstead, ends in crap working conditions, demanding speed reduc- minister from his Congress meets in riot (see 29 June), Yidel, founded, riot, 1819 - banned 2005 tions, 1938 parish. 1549 London, 1900. 1595 Spitalfields, 1884. thereafter. 27 28 29 30 31 Uncommon Instrument Awareness Day

Sylvia Pankhurst Anti Fascist Action found- Last massive ‘Urban 3000 rally demanding escapes police hidden ed, ‘to fight fascism Free festival’, Poison Club squat peace with in a woodcart, physically & politically’, Fordham Park, centre evicted, revolutionary France, St Bromley, 1914. Conway Hall, 1985 Deptford, 1995 Dalston, 2007 Pancras, 1797. Lewisham 1977:Police protect National Front march from anti-fascist attack. August

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sometimes you think, 1 2 3 4 5 6 ‘you know, International Beer Day we missed the 1919: Dockers asked to moment’... Labour Party leaders call Spitalfields Market: Parliamentary officials London Chartist support striking police for strike against war, Hell House punk squat mass boycott of high leader William Lovett but its there, still, up remember cop violence in beat up Charles Bradlaugh 1914 - after war starts, 2 raided during gig - 25 meat prices ends in a to stop him seat as MP, put on trial for ahead... 1912 dock strike, and refuse. days later, they support it! nicked, Borough, 1991. riot, 1917. due to his atheism. 1881. seditious libel, 1839 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Skyscraper Appreciation Day Parliament passes Act Southwark Levellers Defence of the Realm against “atheistical, Police batter 20,000- Electricians strike Hated Foreign Secretary Lewisham: National defying Parliament, open Act passed, codifying blasphemous & execrable strong East London supporting NHS pay claim Castlereagh cuts his Front march attacked London gates to New WW1 repression, opinions”, aimed the suffragette demo to paralyses Fleet Street throat, to national by 1000s of anti- Model Army, 1647. 1914. Ranters, 1650. Downing St, 1913. presses, 1982. rejoicing, 1822. fascists, 1977 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Bad Poetry Day

1918: women bus Richard Carlile arrested Army recruiting office workers, Willesden garage Two soldiers “A most daring & Raid on 395 Amhurst Rd, for reprinting William bombed by Angry launch wildcat strike for University College convicted of dangerous riot” in Stoke Newington nets 6 of Hone's blasphemous Brigade Moonlighters pay equality - spreads Hospital nurses desertion shot in Newgate Prison, ‘Angry Brigade’ according texts, 1817 Cell, 1971. across country... strike, 1993 Hyde Park, 1749 1777. to cops, 1971 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Pluto Demoted Day

1854: Magistrates Feminist Mary Henry Hetherington, swamped with so many 1918: women’s bus Climate Camp Huge tailors strike Wollstoncraft & utopian cases of theft/disorder Thames shipwrights stalwart of 1830s radical strike (see 16th) settled occupies begins in William Godwin become arising from Camberwell strike defeated with ‘unstamped press’, dies, after huge meeting at lovers, 1796. Fair, they ban it. state violence, 1802 Kings Cross, 1849. Blackfriars Ring. Blackheath, 2009 Whitechapel, 1889 28 29 30 31 Toasted Marshmallow Day Revolutionary moment missed? Striking Dockers 1960: railway & council Home of Met Police Revolutionary moment leaders call for General workers strike in protest Commissioner John missed? striking police Strike, but back off next at evictions of St Pancras Waldron is bombed, day. 1889. rent strikers. 1970. occupy Whitehall, 1918. rioting in Brixton, September 1985 - barricades in Railton Road (interestingly, in front of the old 121 anarchist bookshop!) September

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1 2 3 4 5 6 ...tis the season of Be late for Something Day mists & mellow fruit- John Lilburne incites the 1832: Robert Owen Peace Pledge Union fulness, though soldiery to rise up, in Alex Haigh arrested, launches ‘Equitable Labour Cool radical young mockery of religion Outcry of the Young Men becomes first person Exchange’, Holborn, to demonstrate against women’s mag Shocking Duchess of Bedford is also traditional... and Apprentices jailed under new anti- begin abolition of wage H-Bomb, Trafalgar Pink’s original collective posh flats squatted, of London, 1649 squatting law, 2012 slavery (still waiting, Bob!) Square, 1954. forms, 1981. Kensington, 1946. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Wonderful Weirdos Day No News is Good News Day As the World Trade Gay Liberation Front Sylvia Pankhurst 100s of anti-fascists Traditional start of OutRage declare 'Queer Centre burns, protes- Battersea Brown Dog Jihad' against Muslim fun- disruptions totally mash expelled from the hammer nazi skins on statue erected as Southwark Fair - tors besiege DSEI arms suppressed by damentalists, Speaker's up reactionary Christian Communist Party of way to Blood & Honour memorial to victims of authorities 1762 Corner, 1995 Festival of Light 1971 Great Britain, 1921 fair, East London, 2001. gig, Waterloo, 1992 vivisection, 1906 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Play doh Day First edition of Marx’s 300 take part in mass 1904: Anti-religious Occupation of University Chartist National Jewish Socialists mocking OutRage stage attempted animal liberation raid on Capital comes off College Hospital ward by Second day of bread Convention are elected Yom Kippur service, crucifixion at Westminster printing presses, supporters supporting riots, Corn Exchange, in a mass rally, Old Wellcome Labs, Whitechapel are attacked Cathedral, against church 1867. nurse strike, 1993 1800. Palace Yard, 1838 Beckenham, 1983 by worshippers. homophobia, 1992. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 World Dream Day

Wimbledon Horse patrol sent to The first congress of the Leveller leader John A day after theatre censor- 150 convicts in the Conservative Met Police Flying Bethnal Green to crush International Workingmens Lilburne acquitted of ship ends, the musical Hair Association fire-bombed mobs looting & cooking Woolwich prison Association opens in treason, to popular Squad founded, 1920. opens in the West End, 1970. food en masse, 1826 hulks riot, 1778 London, 1865 rejoicing, 1649. with nudity and all. 1968 28 29 30

Supporters of First Stop the City Garibaldi/Italian unity Police shoot Cherry demo against arms battle catholics, Hyde Groce, sparking riot, trade & capitalism, Park, 1862. Brixton, 1985 1983. Edith and Elsa Lanchester

Edith and James’ daughter, actress and singer Elsa Lanchester, carried on the fam- ily’s radical & freethinking ways. A member of the ILP Edith Lanchester was a feminist, socialist, a after World War 1, she found- member of the Social Democratic Federation. In 1896 when she announced she intended to ed the Children's Theatre in live unmarried with her lover, James Sullivan, Soho, in 1918, rejected reli- her family had her forcibly locked up in a gion, & did her bit to under- mental hospital. A loud campaign by socialists mine marriage... She was also the and freethinkers got her released after 4 days Bride of Frankenstein... (see 29th October).

We humbly propose 29th October as a candi- date for an annual ‘’Unmarried Love Day’... October

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A good month for 1 2 3 4 Virus Appreciation Day executing prime ministers. 1907: Hampstead Garden Communist, artist, Suburb opens as utopian (Although May is Anarchist Autonomy settlement aimed at all visionary, William Library house squat also traditional). Centre opens, classes. That worked out Morris dies at centre Camberwell. Wapping, 1981 then! Hammersmith, 1896. opens, 2008 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Mad Hatter Day Bathtub Day Curious events Day World Homeless Day Coming Out Day

Troops sent in as Charles Bradlaugh - later Demo against pre-eminent secularist of strike-breakers in Fascists have to be Pioneer Lesbian Criminal Justice Bill Circle Community novelist Radclyffe Hall his time - gives his first London gasworkers defended by police from Attorney General's ends in a riot, first public lecture, East Centre Squat, Tufnell strike, 1950. Stepney crowd, 1936 dies in London, 1943. house bombed, 1970 Hyde Park, 1994. London, 1850. Park, evicted 2005 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 No Beard Day

Thomas Harrison, who The Land is Ours: Another attack on Nelson Bakewell offices First issue of Huge Welling anti- voted for the execution Unemployed demo to occupied, due to role in of Charles I, himself underground paper Gargoyle Wharf land BNP demo ambushed anti-WW1 meeting at flog-off of council executed, Charing Cross, international times squat evicted, by cops and riot the Brotherhood Parliament beaten up housing/services, 2001. 1660. published, 1966. Wandsworth, 1996. ensues, 1993. Church, 1917. and dispersed, 1920. 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Sourest Day

Fleet marriages, without Mass anti-poll tax Peaceniks help Russky Troops used as scab ‘Occupy’ camp 124 arrested in demos at licence or banns, begun, picket of Brixton spy George Blake US & USSR embassies labour, Tower Hamlets, Hayes Cottage Hospital Fleet Prison, 1704, Prison attacked by squats Finsbury escape from Wormwood against Cuban Missile in local authority manual occupied by workers to (they’re banned, 1705). cops, 1990. Square, 2011. Scrubs Prison, 1966. Crisis. 1962 workers strike, 1970. prevent closure, 1983 26 27 28 29 30 31 Howl at the Moon Day Frankenstein Day

2010: Mad Pride 3000 occupy London First ‘Agreement of the Edith Lanchester People’, Leveller/Agitator Sipson locals protest execute David Cameron, School of Economics in freed from asylum, plan to knock their homes JJs food factory proposals for new constitu- Hyde Park. In effigy only, run-up to anti-Vietnam 1895 after socialist down for new Heathrow workers go on strike, tion, published, 1647 sadly. Still time though... war demo,1968 protests - (see above) runway, 2005 Haringey, 1994.

Gillray’s caricature of a London Corresponding Society rally demanding political reform, on Islington’s Copenhagen Fields. November

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1 2 3 4 5 6 What do you give World Vegan Day Cliche Day the police chief who has everything? At the Putney Debates, 1717: Crowd prevent Evictions of squats Mini-riot, Charing Cross Goldsmiths College the Army Council votes Cops raid Powis Square Tyburn hanging; the only and blues clubs spark Road after anti- occupied by students for universal manhood squat bonfire party, time, ever, which is a bit rioting, Brixton, 1982 apartheid demo, 1985. 2010. suffrage, 1647 Notting Hill, 1970. depressing. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Sesame Day Earl Spencer announces Walter Tatam tries to Anti-capitalist 300,000 attend London Mass meeting of ultra- assassinate Met Police plan to enclose Royalist army’s march radicals plotting Millenarian poet John Commissioner police demonstrators have a Wimbledon Common, Corresponding Society on London blocked by uprising, foiled by police, Milton, 65, dies in Horwood with poisoned run-in with the Old Bill 1864 - (a campaign rally demanding political largely citizen army at 1831 London, 1674. chocolates, 1922 at Euston, 1999. saves it). reform, Islington, 1795 Turnham Green, 1642 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 World Toilet Day Unfriend Day

Susannah Wright jailed Obscenity trial begins Fabulous US revolutionary Radical Alfred Linnell Crowds greet first Anti-war protestors block for two years for selling Staff vote to occupy for Radclyffe Hall’s Lucy Parsons addresses the Mall, as US president killed as police clear Carlile's blasphemous St Benedict's Lesbian novel Well of hunger march arriving Victoria Park rally against George W Bush calls at Trafalgar Square of publications, 1822. Hospital, Tooting, Loneliness, 1928 at Marble Arch, 1931 police repression, 1888. Buckingham Palace, 2003. demonstrators, 1887. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 St Clements Day... it’s coming some time, maybe...

Government prohibits Wave of universities East End street traders ...which Woolwich occupied, 2010, including Anarchy In The UK? Sex meetings by National protest against police blacksmiths apprentices UCL, University of East Reclaim the Night First Gay Liberation Union of the Working harassment, 1860 (they celebrate with rowdy London, Southbank, returns: 600 feminists Pistols release their Front London demo, Classes, 1831 get the law changed). torchlit procession, 1837. Roehampton, & more... march in Soho, 2005 debut single, 1976 Highbury Fields, 1970 28 29 30 Square Dancing Day Stay Home because You’re Well Day Second secret Riot at Harmondsworth congress of the Strike wins 2 sacked Immigration Detention Communist League porters their jobs back, Centre, 2006. opens, Soho, 1847 Guys Hospital, 1974 fancy some Christmas shopping in Regent Street,dear?

well itÕs better than a poke in the eye! December

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1 2 3 4 5 6 how to keep warm - International Ninja Day attack a uniform, Leading East End 500 Fifth Monarchists South London gas OutRage Zap 'ex-gay' Anarchist Rudolf Rocker Riot in Spitalfields after or just as impressive rally, Allhallows church, workers strike after London apprentices burn something St Michael's Church, interned with other ‘enemy insurgent silkweavers Belgravia - 11 arrested, aliens’, Alexandra Palace, against Crowell’s company tries to get rid riot against military Doyle & Valloine hanged, oppressive. 1991 1914. Protectorate, 1655 of their union, 1889 rule, 1659. 1769. 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

Locals fight off medical St Barnabas Church, Margaret Hughes becomes Rioting students & students trying to demol- John Saltmarsh, New First issue of the Strikers attack scabs & Dulwich, burned down first woman to appear on friends say hi to prince ish Battersea Brown Dog Model Army preacher, Clarion, leading socialist police during by 'unknown persons' an English stage, Venn Charles and Camilla, Statue, 1907 (see Sept rebel against puritanism, paper of its time, gasworkers’ strike, 1992. Heh heh heh. Street theatre, 1660 Regent St, 2010. 13th). dies, Ilford, 1647 published, 1891. Greenwich, 1889. 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Sons of Africa, black Squatters evicted from Last pirates executed at New Cross: Pagnell St After 3 months of Old London anti-slavery group, Bohemia pub, Finchley, Camberwell Art College Execution Dock, Wapping, Price Riots, Covent Garden send open letter of thanks West End Community Centre picket local MP, prominent students end their Theatre gives in & reduces to abolitionist Granville hairdressers’ strike George James Davis and burnt out, probably by in criminalisation of occupation against cuts ticket prices, 1809. Sharp, 1787 begins, 1918. William Watts, 1829. fascists, 1977. squatting, 2013. and tuition fees, 2010. 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Dalek Remembrance Day The revolution starts at closing time...

Suffragettes disrupt Leading Russian anarchist Walthamstow unemployed Xmas drinkers loot Last issue of influential Radical Quaker James Prime Minister’s exile Sergius Stepniak dies, raid factory to end over- shops and fight the illegal penny paper, the Nayler branded & has his speech, Albert Hall, Bloomsbury Social hit by a train, Bedford time/get more workers cops at chucking out Poor Man’s Guardian, tongue burned through, for 1905. Centre evicted, 2011 Park, 1895. taken on, 1921 time, Kilburn, 1985 published, 1835. blasphemy, 1656. 28 29 30 31

Last of Ultra-repressive Stonewall Not the First - Radical poet Adrian Unemployed hunger Six Acts passed aimed at 40 gay men in drag fight Mitchell dies of heart marchers fight police, squashing radical move- constables raiding drag . failure, 2008 Battersea Baths, 1922 ments, 1819. party, Drury Lane, 1725

no war but the class war!

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