May 1978: After the racist murder of Altab Ali in Whitechapel, demonstrators march behind his coffin to Downing Street.
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1
1.6 million
workers go on strike
against pay restraint, 1973. |
2
Splitters! Pearly Kings & Queens expelled from Pearly Association form splinter group… 2001. |
3
Grunwicks pickets
acquitted in court, 1977. |
4
Whitechapel:
Racist
murder of
Altab Ali, sparks community protests, 1978 |
5
Hatters strike
for wage rise,
1768.
NB: actually was the 9th |
6
Joe Orton's
provocative play
Entertaining Mr Sloane premieres, 1964. |
7
Whitechapel
residents protest Tower Hamlets transfer of Council housing stock, 2013. |
8
General Strikers attack
scab trams
& prevent them
running,
Camberwell, 1926. |
9
Thomas Blood
tries to
nick crown
jewels, 1671. |
10
During anti-privatisation bus
strike, arson
destroys bus in Shepherds
Bush garage, 1987. |
11
East India
Dockers
refuse to load government ship sailing to aid anti-Soviet war effort, 1920. |
12
London
Republican Club founded, 1871. |
13
Covent Garden
watchmen fight
smugglers
& seize huge
haul of
smuggled tea,
1733. |
14
Queen Victoria
booed
as she opens
People's
Palace,
Mile End, 1887. |
15
Inquest jury rule death of cop who attacked radical crowd 'justifiable homicide' Clerkenwell, 1833. |
16
Striking
glassmakers and tailors
march on
Parliament, 1768. |
17
Smugglers
beat up watchmen
searching for contraband, Bunhill Row,
one dies. 1733. |
18
London
carpenters
strike
begins,
1896. |
19
500 'riotous fellows
pretending to be distressed weavers' extort money
from passers by, 1765.
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20
Hebrew Socialist Union founded, Spitalfields, 1876. |
21
Anti-trade union
Combination Acts
repealed, 1824. |
22
Socialist opening air
meeting attacked by crowd of teetotallers, Harrow Road, 1886! Never trust a… |
23
Dora Montefiore
barricades Hammersmith home against bailiffs
(she'd refused
to pay tax till
women got
the vote. 1906).
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24
Evil parasitical
thieftaker Jonathan
Wild hanged, to
popular delight, 1725. |
25
BNP march
sparks anti-fascist
counter-demos, Thamesmead, 1991. |
26
Women's Caravan
of Peace leaves London
for 15 lands, 1958. |
27
Eco-village
on squatted land,
Kew Bridge,
evicted after 11 months, 2010. |
28
Pauline Campbell,
whose daughter died in Holloway Prison, arrested blocking prison entrance, 2004. |
29
Unemployed march on West End attacked by police at Cannon Street, 1922. |
30
Taking the Piss: Fenian bomb under Special Branch
urinals blows up
much of Scotland Yard, |
31
East End
tailors strike
starts, 1891. |
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How to beat
'pay restraint': mass extortion
of the wealthy... |
