Bands quiz - How many local bands can you name?' About 35 names are hidden in this picture (Nerve 1 - March 2003) Also in this month... 1912 The Syndicalist publishes Fred Bower's 'Don't Shoot' leaflet, urging soldiers not to fire on striking workers 1993 Women Against Pit Closures set up camp to defend Parkside colliery JANUARY 2013 1996 Women of the Waterfront petition Downing Street in support of the 500 sacked dockers Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

WORLD PEACE DAY 1 Public Holiday 2 3 4 5 6

2009 2,000 march to protest 1977 450 strike at Cammell 1972 Fisher-Bendix factory against Israel's bombing of Lairds over productivity in Kirkby occupied by the Palestinians in Gaza payment dispute workforce for five weeks 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1906 's 2008 City Centre march to first suffragette action: 1791 Edward defend the right to protest 1847 First of 300,000 Irish Prime Minister heckled at Rushton and others start (following police and council fleeing the great hunger meeting in Sun Hall Liverpool School for the Blind harassment of campaigners) arrive in Liverpool 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

1910 Protest outside Walton jail at maltreatment of 1895 First appearance 1863 Conference in support 2003 2,500 march 1919 Mass meeting 1997 International suffragettes. More women of Socialist Soup van in of the North and against through city in protest at demands release of Irish dock strike in support of arrested and force-fed. front of St George's Hall slavery in American civil war plans to invade Iraq political prisoners Liverpool dockers

HOLOCAUST 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 MEMORIAL DAY

1938 Left 2006 'Dragons of the Pool' Theatre performs play unveil plaque to Chinese 1889 Meeting to 'Waiting for Lefty', based on a 1889 First meeting of merchant seamen forcibly 1979 Grave-diggers form a trade union for New York cab-drivers' strike Women's Industrial Council repatriated in 1945 strike (till 1 Feb) women cigar-makers 28 29 30 31

1996 News from Nowhere bookshop avoids eviction by 1996 Ploughshares activists Frensons developers and damage Hawk fighters 2010 PCS public services 1977 First issue of moves to present building destined for Indonesia rally on St George's plateau Merseyside Women's Paper Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk We Are the Cardboard Army - Anti-cuts protesters on one of many protests outside (Nerve website) Image: John Owen Also in this month... 1969 First screening of Ken Loach drama documentary 'The Big Flame' about striking Liverpool dockworkers 1972 Liverpool 'Right to Work' marchers leave for London 1971 Electricians at FEBRUARY 2013 Inland Revenue Office in Bootle begin Britain's longest strike (ends August 1974) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3

1951 Birkenhead, then 1879 'Three-week Liverpool, dockers strike 1911 Robert Tressell strike by 35,000 dockers over wages. Leaders (Noonan), author of 'Ragged 1936 Republican banner and seamen over 10% charged under wartime Trousered Philanthropists', and medal from Spanish civil war reduction in wages regulation 'Order 1305' dies in Royal Infirmary 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1953 City Council bans 1937 18 volunteers from 1906 Jim Larkin is agent for 1934 Merseyside Unity theatre film show Merseyside die at the battle 1975 35 cleaners at James Sexton contesting contingent of National Hunger from Philharmonic Hall on of Jarama, fighting for the Ministry of Defence join trade West Toxteth for Labour at 1991 Mike Hill loses his life march arrives Chester political grounds Spanish republic union and lose their jobs General Election in anti-hunting protest (arrives London on 25th) 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

2008 Rolls Royce workers 2010 Church 1970 Launch of 1940 Peace march held by march through city to protest Street vigil supporting Big Flame, 'Merseyside's 1986 Anti-Apartheid Liverpool branch of against factory closure plans 'Arab spring' in Egypt rank and file paper' march through city Women's Peace Campaign 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

1863 3,000-4,000 in Royal 1890 National Union Amphitheatre condemn of Dock Labourers 1988 Dockers refuse to slavery and support the 1855 Second 1994 First Irish cultural introduces Britain's first handle uranium mined in 1969 First national North in American civil war day of bread riots and community festival union lapel badge apartheid-ruled Namibia Ford Strike 25 26 27 28

2003 Rodney Street Youth Centre occupied as an 1984 100,000 protest Robert Tressell's pauper's International Welcome 2010 Formation of on Merseyside in support grave in Walton cemetery Centre for asylum-seekers Liverpool Socialist Singers of GCHQ workers centenary celebration Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk International Women's Day - first celebrated in 1911. The march and rally of 2011 continues the tradition of resistance (Nerve website) Also in this month... 1972 Liverpool seamen recruited to take ANC guerrillas from Somalia to South Africa in yacht Avventura 1984 Formation of the country's first support group for the national miners' strike 2011 Andrew Manifold and MARCH 2013 other anti-war protesters refuse to complete the 2011 census (forms being processed by Lockheed Martin) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1978 Anti-Ring Road poster 1 2 3

2005 Protest at 1983 Liverpool CND march council offices over in Glasgow after 1939 Merseyside Left Theatre 2011 International Women's demolition plans for homes demonstrating at Greenham anti-war play Bury the Dead Day at the statue of Mary Bamber in the 'Welsh Streets' Common the day before at David Lewis Theatre

INTERNATIONAL 4 5 6 T 8 WOMENS DAY 9 10

1970 Day 2 of University 2000 Greenpeace harass 1923 Labour wins first 1971 First Women's Senate house occupation the first ship to bring GM 1890 Start of 'the Liverpool Parliamentary seat Liberation Movement 2001 Kirkby Action Group against investment in maize to Liverpool docks great dock strike' (Edge Hill by-election) celebrations marches on Sonae factory apartheid 11 12 13 14 NERVE DAY 15 16 17

1968 Start of 11-week bus strike that forces 1985 First Ford International renegotiation of 2003 First issue of Workers Conference 1937 Inaugural meeting of one-person bus operation Nerve magazine (held in the Adelphi Hotel) Merseyside Left Theatre 18 19 20 21 ANTI-RACISM DAY 22 23 24

1953 Unity Theatre play The Scab tells 2003 'We all live in a story of a Liverpool 2003 Central Liverpool terrorist regime' 2010 One-day strike by docker's family during the blocked by demonstrations inscribed on Yellow 1984 Lancashire NUM vote 20,000 civil servants over 1926 General Strike as Iraq war begins Submarine tourist landmark to join national miners' strike redundancy package

Public Holiday British Summer 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Time begins

1997 Footballer 1848 Repealers and Robbie Fowler fined 2006 Over 3,000 Chartists hold public £900 by UEFA for demonstrate against meeting supporting Irish displaying T-shirt supporting 1987 Anti-Apartheid 1962 Irish Freedom March visit of US Secretary of independence sacked Liverpool dockers march through city leaves Liverpool for London State Condoleezza Rice Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk ‘Access Denied’ - a reflection on benefit cuts by John O'Neill Also in this month... 1872 8,000 carters strike (one week) for better wages 1984 Trade Union Centre theatre named after David Jones, Notts miner who lost his life on picket duty at Ollerton 2004 Welsh APRIL 2013 Streets Homes Group set up to oppose demolition of homes in Liverpool's ten 'Welsh Streets' Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 Public Holiday 2 3 4 5 6 7

1987 First Mutual Aid 1911 Suffragettes gather Centre opens in Victoria in Birkenhead house and 1978 First meeting 1979 First Merseyside Street in what is now refuse to give names to of Merseyside 'Reclaim the Night'. Women Millennium House census: 'No Vote, No Census' Anti-Racialist Alliance march through city centre 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

1962 Pat Arrowsmith 2005 Friends of Palestine 2005 Train drivers bring of CND arrested at picket Caterpillar's Perkin Merseyrail to a halt on 1982 Kirkby Unemployed 1976 First meeting of Liberty dockside meeting on plant in Irlam Grand National weekend Centre opens Hall, alternative social club nuclear disarmament

HILLSBOROUGH 15 DAY 16 17 18 19 20 21

1989 Boycott of Sun 2008 60 Greenpeace 1962 Irish Freedom 1951 Seven dockers (three newspaper after it 'orang-utan' volunteers March from Liverpool from Merseyside) cleared of vilifies Liverpool fans at occupy Unilever factory for arrives in London 'conspiracy to incite a strike' Hillsborough stadium tragedy 1948 Tugboatmen strike the day in biofuels protest WORKERS 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 MEMORIAL DAY

1985 10,000 school 2001 Builders union UCATT 1919 Protest march students strike and march unveils 'hod-carrier' memorial by unemployed through city in protest at 1988 Kirkby Response 1983 One-day city-wide on Islington to victims of (demobilised) soldiers Youth Training Schemes Theatre formed strike against privatisation construction industry

1989 Bootle residents protest against 29 30 toxic chemicals (Aug)

1920 P J Kelly leads out 4000 dockers to support 1919 Public meeting Irish political prisoners on denounces conscription hunger strike in Wormwood measures contained in Scrubs prison the Military Services Act Sun boycott poster (19th) Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk 1926 Miners strike support group (Nerve 9) Also in this month... 1984 Frankie Goes to Hollywood release single Two Tribes 1989 Three-day rooftop protest against prison conditions at Risley Remand Centre MAY 2013 1999 Trees at Park Nook (Princes Park) occupied to stop luxury flats Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 MAY DAY 2 3 4 5

1981 Merseyside Hunger Strike Supporters Committee march to Pier Head in support 1912 Strike at Wilson's 1972 George Pratt 1895 May Day by 1974 News from Nowhere, of Irish hunger-striker Bobby 1926 General Strike begins, Bobbin Works, leading to becomes first black City Liverpool's Walter Crane radical bookshop, opens Sands (who died on the 6th) solid in Liverpool the 'Garston riots' Councillor (Clubmoor ward) 6 Public Holiday 7 8 9 10 11 12

1987 Liz Drysdale 2004 Friends of Palestine 1919 Arnold Yates, 1934 Clashes in streets 1949 Paul Robeson visits (Granby) & Judy Nelson demonstrate outside Harold bookseller, fined for 1981 10,000 strike at 1984 'Women in White' as Oswald Mosley Liverpool and sings to (Smithdown) become first House against speaker possession of leaflets Fords to defeat new march to save Duchess addresses fascist rally 10,000 crowd in Lord Street black women City Councillors Louise Ellman MP advocating revolution disciplinary code ward in Women's hospital 13 14 15 16 17 LEVELLERS DAY 18 19

1969 Rent-striking 2010 Over 100 repairers 1832 Emigrant ship Brutus 2009 Play Seven Jewish Abercromby tenants join 1966 Liverpool at at Cammell Lairds leaves Liverpool for Quebec children peformed by students in demo when forefront of national go on unofficial strike with cholera on board, Liverpool Network Theatre in Princess Alexandra visits seamen's strike (till 1 July) over job losses plan returns 18 June with 97 dead Writing on the Wall festival 20 21 22 23 24 25 26

1909 Anarchist-Communist 1839 15,000 attend 1919 Communist 1998 1955 Dockers six-week Sunday School distribute 1955 Labour has 1888 Inquiry report says Chartist demonstration Mary Bamber wins sculpture (satire on GM strike for recognition of leaflets denouncing absolute majority on the Liverpool women are the at Queens Square Everton ward for Labour foods) unveiled the 'Blue Union' Empire Day City Council for the first time worst-paid in the country 27 Public Holiday 28 29 30 31

1981 450 City 1911 National Transport 1993 plaque council typists' work-to-rule 1981 Liverpool Black Workers Federation unveiled for black merchant quickly becomes a six- Organisation occupy 1981 Peoples March for launched with rally on 2012 Climate Jobs stall in seamen of World War II month all-out strike Caribbean Centre Jobs arrives in London St George's Plateau Williamson Square (19th) Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk Amandla! - Liverpool 8 joins national anti-apartheid march, June 1984 Also in this month... 1890 Successful three-week strike by coat tailoresses 1984 Cammell Laird workers occupy gas rig at shipyard to prevent closure 1984 City Council defies government and sets an JUNE 2013 'illegal budget' to maintain services. 47 councillors are later surcharged Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2

1919 1600 police officers in Liverpool stadium vote overwhelmingly to 2006 Peoples Centre Out and proud in Liverpool (Nerve 19) strike for union recognition opens on Mount Pleasant 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

1981 Radical Labour 1919 Charles Wootton, 24- 1972 First international councillor Margaret year-old black Liverpudlian, 1848 Liverpool's mayor calls strike action begins in 1979 Formation of Simey sets out plan for chased by white crowd and 1997 Last event at the Irish for larger military presence Liverpool and Italy Liverpool Black Organisation police accountability drowned in Queens Dock Centre on Mount Pleasant because of civil unrest against Dunlop-Pirelli 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

1957 First meeting of 2001 Merseyside 2001 Refugees go on Merseyside Hydrogen Against Detention 1997 Rooftop protest 1881 Irish republicans hunger strike over appalling Bomb Protest Group formed to protest against 1911 Day 2 of seamen's to protect Irish Centre attempt to blow up Town Hall conditions in Landmark flats (forerunner of CND) jailing of asylum-seekers strike (led by Tom Mann) on Mount Pleasant

WORLD 17 18 19 20 REFUGEE DAY 21 22 23

1937 Basque refugee 1992 Communities of 1999 Garden Festival 1840 John Finch 1977 Memorial stone 1890 Women bookfolders children (from Spanish Resistance conference site campaign formed to founds Socialist Hall laid to Rebert Tressell and stitchers win reduction civil war) welcomed in marks 500 years of preserve river frontage in Lord Nelson Street in Walton cemetery of working day to ten hours Liverpool and Birkenhead conquest since Columbus from more luxury housing

INTERNATIONAL 24 25 26 DAY FOR VICTIMS 27 28 29 30 OF TORTURE

1904 The 'Secret in the 1996 James Larkin 1979 Third day of first Stone' laid in the Anglican 1905 Jim Larkin leads 10- Republican Flute week-long foundations by week dockers' strike at 1872 Two-day train Band formed Gay Pride celebrations Fred Bower and Jim Larkin T&J Harrison shipping line strike secures pay increase

Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk Striving for a living wage - firefighters on strike in 1977 Also in this month...1796 Edward Rushton's 'Letter to Washington' challenges the President for owning slaves while advocating liberty 1895 Bitter dispute at Jackson's Rope Works, Old Swan, after machine tears young girl to pieces (29th) in front of her mother 2011 Cairns Street JULY 2013 residents' blockade prevents demolition of houses Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

1889 Formation of 1971 1,000 march Tramway Employees from Kirkby to Liverpool 1913 Suffragette Edith 1981 William Huskisson Association in face of in first post-war demo 1981 Start of Liverpool 8 Rigby sets off bomb at statue on Princes Road 2001 First Arabic heavy employer pressure against unemployment uprising ('the riots') Liverpool Exchange Buildings pulled down Arts Festival 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

2009 Friends of Palestine 1981 First public 1991 Terry Fields MP 1819 Liverpool's first 1912 Orange and Green picket concert of Leonard statement of Liverpool 8 2002 Formation of Liverpool jailed for 60 days after Orange parade 'put to Band marches through Cohen as his tour Defence Committee Friends of Palestine refusing to pay poll tax flight by the Irish' Garston after police brutality includes gig in Tel-Aviv 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

1917 War poet Siegfried 2012 First of one-day 1971 First edition of Sassoon throws his Military 1989 Report of Gifford strikes by Birkenhead 2007 1,000 march against Liverpool Free Press, 'News Cross ribbon into the Inquiry into 'uniquely Remploy workers against 1989 7,000 seamen cuts in, and privatisation you're not supposed to know' Mersey at Formby beach horrific' racism in Liverpool planned factory closure end seven-week strike of, postal services 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

1848 Irish Confederates 1972 Liverpool Echo is not 1847 Daniel O'Connell's 2001 Demonstration arrested in possession of printed for three days amid body lies in state on 1984 Official opening of supporting asylum- pikes amid rumours of widespread actions supporting the Mersey en route the Flying Picket bar seekers on hunger insurrection jailed 'Pentonville 5' dockers from London to Dublin on Hardman Street strike in Walton prison

2009 Peace and 29 30 31 Ecology poster

1996 Ploughshares activists 1848 500 dockers acquitted at Crown 1919 Liverpool police dismissed for refusing to Court after damaging join in national strike - 2011 Picket of new become special constables Hawk fighter aircraft 955 later dismissed museum (19th)

Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk Welcome to Crocky - the community took over Croxteth Comprehensive School in the summer of 1982 (Nerve 4) Also in this month... 1880 Mass meeting in the Trades Hall protests at discrimination against black sailors 1909 Suffragette Georgina Healiss receives WSPU medal 'for valour' after hunger strike in AUGUST 2013 prison 2004 Childcare social workers strike (till Jan 2005) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4

1982 Michael Heseltine pelted after meeting at 1995 Postal workers from 1981 Liverpool 8 Defence occupied Croxteth Liverpool organise three Committee march (15th) Comprehensive School lorryloads of 'Aid for Bosnia' 5 6 HIROSHIMA DAY 7 8 9 10 11

1989 Dockers vote to 2008 Parents Against 1911 1,000 railway turn away toxic PCB 1912 60,000 attend 1976 Des Warren, Closure demonstrate goods porters strike. cargo due to arrive from 2006 'Red Card for Israel' Sheil Park rally to Shrewsbury picket, against plans to close Other transport workers Montreal. Local residents given out as Liverpool mark first anniversary released from prison Croxteth Comprehensive come out in support support (demo on 16th) FC play Maccabi Haifa of Bloody Sunday 12 13 14 15 16 17 18

1911 Liverpool's 1839 Chartist petition 1823 Slave uprising Bloody Sunday - police presented to Parliament 1981 Liverpool 8 Defence 1920 Council of on estate of John attack transport strike with 20,689 Liverpool and Committee demonstration 1995 Social workers Action formed to (father of William) rally, injuring hundreds 8,000 Birkenhead signatures against Chief Constable in care homes strike oppose war with Russia Gladstone in Demerara

SLAVERY 19 20 21 22 23 REMEMBRANCE 24 25 DAY

1889 40 Liverpool dockers 1960 2000 seamen 1995 Firefighters' are lured to London to 1913 Suffragettes set march in support of Patrick 1987 Mike Field arrested one-day actions turn 2009 Strike by baggage- break the dock strike there fire to Seafield House, Neary, jailed (on 23rd) for shouting 'rich parasite' into a nine-month strike handlers at Liverpool airport but refuse to do so causing £80,000 damage during seamen's strike at Princess Diana 26 Public Holiday 27 28 29 30 31

2011 Picket at Liverpool Mutual Homes as older 1920 Printers strike 1775 Seamen's Revolt: 2006 Firefighters workers are laid off. stops Daily Post and 1,000 sailors bombard strike against proposed Plaque to commemorate the Strike action follows Echo for three weeks Town Hall with ships cannon cuts to services three-month strike of 1975 Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk They shall not pass - A mass turnout sees off the BNP's attempt to picket Question Time, 29 Sept 2011 (Nerve 18) Image: John Usher Also in this month...1932 Four days of demonstrations force Birkenhead council to increase Public Assistance payments 1974 Netherley Flat- Dwellers Action Group protest against 'Colditz flats' 2008 First Working- SEPTEMBER 2013 Class Music Festival held at the New Picket (3 days) Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 30 2012 Nerve event at 1 Toxteth library (15th)

1894 Clarion socialist 1890 TUC Congress in cycling club visit Knowsley Liverpool sees rise of estate of Earl of Derby 'who 2012 Palestinian embassy New Unionism; calls for did not invite us to dinner' balloon flies over (15th) 8-hour limit to working day 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

1911 Liverpool-born 1972 Shrewsbury building- 1921 Mass demonstration 1797 Liverpool slave ship Delia Larkin helps site picket. Des Warren of unemployed besieges 1982 Liverpool 8 Thomas taken over by found Irish Women and Ricky Tomlinson Town Hall and demands 2006 Demonstration in Law Centre founded African slaves for 42 days Workers Union in Dublin among 24 later prosecuted 'Work not Maintenance' support of asylum-seekers 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

1973 Merseyside Chile 1921 Unemployed Solidarity formed as 200 1990 Peoples March 1978 First 'Rock 1974 Liverpool picket of demonstrators occupy protest outside Chilean 2007 Next to Nowhere against Poll tax leaves Against Racism' gig Chilean consulate on first and are consulate after Pinochet social centre opens Liverpool for London in Walton Hall Park anniversary of Pinochet coup brutally evicted by police coup two days earlier on Bold Street 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

1913 3,500 railway workers 2010 BNP leader Nick 1893 New Zealand is first 2001 Merseyside block trade with Dublin in Griffin forced out of Church country to introduce votes for 1913 Jim Larkin addresses Against Detention protest support of the locked-out 1960 Nuclear disarmament Street by Unite Against women. Campaign led by 1971 Scotland Road Birkenhead Park meeting outside Liverpool prison in workers there (one week) march through city Fascism demonstrators Liverpool-born Kate Sheppard Free School opens about Dublin lockout support of jailed refugees 23 24 25 26 27 28 29

1931 Police attack 1973 Dockers' boycott Islington Square rally of of Chilean shipping (in 1995 Liverpool dock 2006 Elizabeth Pascoe 1974 Women's 1997 Striking Liverpool 10,000 protesting 'against protest at Pinochet coup) dispute begins (lasts wins court order to stop Information Centre at dockers occupy cranes in starvation amidst plenty' made official union policy until January 1998) Edge Lane developers 49 Seel Street opened Port of Sheerness

Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk We Want Homes Not Hovels - Council tenants of the late 1960s protest against housing conditions (Nerve 15) Also in this month...1863 Liverpool Emancipation Society denounces John Laird for building the Alabama for the Confederates 1968 Abercromby tenants begin rent strike (lasts over eight months) 1984 Sit-in at city council offices over appointment of Sam Bond as 'race OCTOBER 2013 relations adviser' Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 5 6

1984 40 Cammell Laird 1842 Bernard Macartney, 1995 Ken Loach's film shipyard workers jailed 1972 One-day dock strike Liverpool bookseller, Land and Freedom in their absence for a month and 3000-strong march 1987 Demonstration for one of 20 Chartists 1989 Building Brigades about Liverpool volunteer to end shipyard sit-in against council rent increases Namibian independence indicted for sedition travel to Nicaragua in Spanish civil war 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1982 Everyman theatre stages Girls in the Pool, 1937 Fascist rally at Queens 1936 Fascist march 1991 Demonstration play based on council 2000 Formation of 1972 Rent strikes begin in Drive halted when Oswald is attacked at several at Sefton Park typists' 1981 strike People Not Profit Kirkby and Birkenhead Mosley is struck by a stone points in city centre statue of Columbus 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

1863 Packed meeting 1939 80 women demonstrate 2011 'Occupy Liverpool' in Philharmonic Hall 1757 Anti-militia riot on 1936 200 marchers leave 'to stop the present war protesters take over Barclays supports the North in day of Mayoral election Liverpool to join the Jarrow and prevent others' Bank for the afternoon American civil war closes city centre Hunger march to London

UNITED NATIONS British Summer 21 22 23 24 DAY 25 26 27 Time ends

1947 Unity Theatre 1975 International Day of 1983 Frankie Goes performs 'The Match Girls 1991 Liverpool 8 Law Action by rubber workers - to Hollywood release Strike', based on Bryant Centre organises march 6000 come out at Dunlops single Relax and May strike of 1889 against police harassment 28 29 30 31

1974 'Petticoat Pickets' win women's 17-week 1987 Visit of Sam 1982 First broadcast of strike at Wingrove and Nujoma, future (SWAPO) Yosser's story, instalment of 1989 Namibian Rogers electrical firm President of Namibia Boys from the Blackstuff women's banner (3rd)

Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk Arise ye starvelings from your slumbers - Marchers at St George's Hall in one-day public sector strike, 30 November 2011 (Nerve website) Also in this month...1819 Radical pamphleteer William Cobbett returns from New York, declares at Customs the bones of Thomas 'Rights of Man' Paine 1972 Workers at Manesty Machines, Speke, win wage increase after 16-week strike and four-week NOVEMBER 2013 sit-in 1995 Women of the Waterfront formed to support striking dockers Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

2012 European Day of strike action (14th) 1 2 3

2011 Five protesters scale 2011 Occupy camp at 2004 First Homotopia, drilling rig near Southport in Wellington Column (26th) Liverpool's current gay festival protest against fracking 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1890 Trades Council calls 2003 Doctors Janet Price 2010 Liverpool Vodafone Mass Indignation Meeting and Lis Davidson pay taxes forced to close for the day by in Birkenhead as 8 men with bloodstained cheques protest against tax evasion jailed for 'intimidation' in protest at Iraq war 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

1984 Black Caucus march to Town Hall and 1985 Plaque unveiled to 27 1921 Unemployed disrupt City Council over Merseyside volunteers who workers' demonstration at 1983 Peace camp set up at appointment of Sam Bond as died fighting for the republic 1922 Liverpool Hunger Armistice Day parade Capenhurst nuclear plant 'race relations adviser' in the Spanish civil war March arrives in London 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

1983 20,000 march to 1998 Monument to victims 2009 Second day of support city council's 2000 Greenpeace 'Chicken 1911 Big suffragette rally in 2011 Baggage-handlers at of Great Irish Famine prison officers' strike over claim for return of grant Run' halts GM soya mill London, Patricia Woodlock 2009 Liverpool March Liverpool airport strike against unveiled by Irish President 'bullying and harassment' money by Tory government (Cargills) on Gladstone dock and others arrested Against Homophobia proposed redundancies Mary McAleese at St Luke's 25 26 27 28 29 30

1980 Over 100,000 2011 Occupy Liverpool 1920 Irish nationalists 1974 One-day general join national TUC 2011 15,000 march to St 1969 John Lennon returns set up camp at base of burn down 17 warehouses strike in support of the march to the Pier Head George's Hall against MBE to Buckingham Palace Wellington column on Liverpool waterfront jailed 'Shrewsbury 2' pickets against unemployment Government austerity

Nerve 2013 Calendar www.catalystmedia.org.uk Buskers' Revenge 2011 - A mass turnout of musicians puts paid to the City Council's latest attempt to kill off street entertainment (Nerve 20) Also in this month... 1888 Seamen's strike (till 18th Feb) 1939 Brendan Behan, writer, arrested for preparing to blow up battleship in Liverpool harbour 1971 Gypsy Free School in DECEMBER 2013 Shaw Street opens Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 30 31 1913 Jim Larkin speaks (1st) 1 WORLD AIDS DAY

1913 Jim Larkin and Big Bill 2008 Church Street Hayward address meeting vigil protests against at Sun Hall in support Israel's invasion of Gaza The mural outside the Picket of the Dublin lock-out 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

2007 Turner art prize 1973 Nightly demonstrations awards in Liverpool 1973 Bailiffs chased away outside Walton prison in 2000 Fidel Castro upstaged by Stop the 1998 First James Larkin when attempting evictions to support of jailed Kirkby unveils statue to War alternative exhibition Commemoration march make way for the M62 rent striker Brian Owen John Lennon in Cuba

HUMAN RIGHTS 9 10 DAY 11 12 13 14 15

1975 British 1999 Black Liverpudlian Withdrawal from Northern 1938 Merseyside Spain Eric Lynch denounces Ireland 14 (including two 1911 400 bargemen Aid Committee ship 1980 30,000 gather on City Council 'apology' Liverpudlians) acquitted of on Leeds-Liverpool canal sails for Spain with 2004 First meeting of St. George's Plateau for vigil for the slave trade Incitement to Disaffection strike in overtime dispute supplies for republicans Liverpool Social Forum after John Lennon's death 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

1973 Kirkby rent strike 1909 Suffragettes Selina 1965 Abolition of Death ends after 14 months 1885 Liverpool Scotland Martin and Lesley Hall Penalty Bill introduced as five more are jailed constituency elect arrested for throwing bottle by Liverpool MP for 'contempt of court' Irish nationalist MP at visiting Prime Minister Sidney Silverman 23 24 25 Public Holiday 26 Public Holiday 27 28 29

1908 Jim Larkin becomes 1909 Suffragettes founder secretary 2007 Picket of Cricket force-fed on hunger- of Irish Transport and fashion shop to protest strike in Liverpool prison General Workers Union against sale of fur products

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