Acid
Drag
communes
for all!
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1
Acid-drag queen commune Bethnal Rouge opens
in Bethnal Green
Agitprop Shop,
1973.
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2
Anarchist Guy Aldred's West London house raided over seditious paper, 1921.
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3
Jimi Hendrix sets fire to his guitar for the first time, London Astoria, 1967.
or was it the 31st? |
4
National Union of
Women's Socialist Societies executive splits over
support for WW1, 1915.
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5
Footmen &
servants riot in
theatre over threat to their right to seating, 1737. |
6
1917: Trial of
anti-war socialists
Alice Wheldon & her family
for made up plot to murder
PM Lloyd George starts. |
7
Riots over radicals'
right to meet in Trafalgar Square continue, 1848. |
8
Mughouse Riots, 1716:
Jacobites fight Hanoverians,
Fleet St & City.
Plague on both houses... |
9
Parliamentary
order appoints
censors to search
for seditious pamphlets, 1643. |
10
London office
of South African
Airways bombed, 1972. |
11
Anti-Boer War meeting
broken up by police,
Highbury Corner, 1900. |
12
The 'Phoenix'
Society of Compositors, early printing union, founded, Fleet St, 1792. |
13
National Union of Women's Socialist Societies celebrates winning of vote for women, Queens Hall, 1918. |
14
Ranter Jacob
Bothumley has his tongue bored through with a redhot iron, for publishing blasphemy, 1650.
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15
Black Panther
Unity Bookshop burned out by
arson attack,
Brixton, 1973. |
16
Abortive Irish
republican bombing of the Mansion House, 1881. |
17
Monarchy abolished, 1649.
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18
Renowned
cutpurse
Jenny Diver
hung, 1741. |
19
Parliament
besieged by Leveller
supporters, 1647 - Nicholas Tew and major Tulidah among nicked. |
20
Sailors mob up &
rescue mates nicked in brothels, Chiswell St, 1763. |
21
Rally to
commemorate Paris
Commune, New Alexandra Hall, Whitechapel,
1903. Lenin speaks.
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22
Evil moralists the Society for the Suppression of Vice formed, Grays Inn, 1802. |
23
Grosvenor Avenue
commune, Highbury, raided in Angry Brigade bombing panic, 1971. |
24
John
Lilburne publishes
the second part of
England's New
Chaines Discovered, 1649. |
25
National Front
march against Britain's entry into EU, Islington, 1975. Surely a dead issue... |
26
Meeting
of workers supporting
Union in US Civil (on
anti-slavery grounds)
War, Piccadilly, 1863.
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27
Prophet Richard Brothers declared insane, 1795,
for mixing
apocalyptic
religion & radicalism. |
28
Mob riots
in support of John Wilkes as he wins Middlesex election, 1768. |
29
Squatting
comes to
Brixton, 1969 - office block occupied, Brixton Rd. |
30
CND
demo to Trafalgar
Square on last day of
Aldermaston march, 1959. |
31
Huge riot
erupts in Trafalgar Square against poll tax, spreads through West End, 1990. |
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