London Rebel History Calendar - December 2020


Jack Hall was hung at Tyburn for burglary in 1707... his story entered into folk song... though in many
versions his name gets changed to Sam Hall for some reason...


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If you're toasting revolution, use Physical Measures...

1

Franciscan
chapel, Lincoln's
Inn Fields, destroyed
by anti-catholic crowd
as James II abdicates, 1688.

2

2400 gas workers
strike in London, 1872.

3

Threat of use of troops, drives striking Charing Cross hospital engineers back to work, 1979.

4

Angry Brigade trial
ends, 1972: John Barker,
Jim Greenfield, Anna Mendelson, Hilary Creek
convicted of bombings.

5

international
times
receives
'communiqué no 1'
from pro-situ bombers
the Angry Brigade, 1970.

6

1000s of Gate
Gourmet workers march
in Southall, angry at unions'
betrayal of their strike, 2005.

7

Anarchist-feminist
conference, opens,
Centro Iberico, 1979.

8

Six Committee of
100 anti-nuclear workers charged under
official secrets act, 1961.

9

William
Hodgson jailed for
two years for toasting
revolution in a tavern, 1793.

10

'Stop the War'
International peace
conference, Royal
Horticultural hall, 2005.

11

Enclosure fences destroyed, Egham, Surrey, 1821.

12

House
of Commons
lobby occupied
by 150 unemployed,
singing the Red Flag, 1922.

13

Film-
makers, feminists & Men Against Sexism protest
ACTT union 'stag-do', Royal
Lancaster Hotel, 1977.

14

Anti-dole slavery
activists picket Manpower
Services Commission
HQ, Grays Inn Rd, 1987.

15

Mad Pride co-founder
Pete
Shaughnessy
kills
himself,
2002.

16

Tufnells
squat
rave Pub,
Tufnell Park,
evicted, 2008.

17

1707: Infamous burglar Jack Hall hung at Tyburn;
as celebrated in song...

18

Thomas Paine found guilty
of sedition for writing
The Rights Of Man, 1792.

19

Police
evict Camden Town
Neighbourhood advice centre occupation, 2004.

20

1838: Chartist meeting at
Hall of Science, City Rd,
rejects moral force & votes
for 'physical measures'.

 

21

Mass meeting of
London citizens
resolves to oppose
any new excise
laws, 1732.

22

'Riot' in Ealing after
Somali music event, 2016.

23

Pro-war left paper Justice publishes attack on Russian
socialist Petroff, inciting
police to arrest him. 1915.

24

Anti-fascists
John Wimbourne
& Gerald Flamberg
nicked for 'plot to shoot
fascist John Preen', 1947.

25

1643: apprentices
attack shops in Cheapside
which had opened
for trading on Xmas Day.

26

All London congress
of Jewish
anarchists held,
Whitechapel, 1902

27

Exiled Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin,
arrives in London, 1861.

28

100s gather
for funeral of anarchist
Sergius Stepniak, 1895.

 

29

Gaza protests outside Israeli embassy turn riotous, 2008.

30

Socialist League
founded, 1884,
after split from the Social
Democratic Federation.

31

British East India Company
granted its charter, 1600 – British imperialism steps up to genocidal footing.