London Rebel History Calendar - January 2020

3-day week? More
time for seditious meetings...

1

Miners
work-to-rule/oil crisis
leads to introduction
of 3-day week 1974.

2

Festive riot in
City of London, 1583.

3

Racist firebomb
devastates party, Sunderland Road, Forest Hill, 1971.

4

Cannon set up
in Leadenhall
Street, in the
City, to resist ruoured
royalist massacre, 1642.

5

Traditional Bankside 12th Night fertility rite: Holly Man emerges from Thames.

6

Islington municipal
workforce strike, 1916, and
win a shilling a week rise.

7

Veteran anarchist
Leah Feldman cremated,
East London, 1993.

8

Attempted escape
from Brixton prison, 1913.

9

Republican
MP Robert Peyton sent
to the Tower on a charge
of high treason, 1680.

10

Scab TNT van kills 19-yr old Michael Delaney during Wapping lockout, 1987.

11

Dole office
workers
strike begins
across
North London, 1988.

12

Followers of millenarian prophetess Joanna Southcott riot in Cannon Street, 1819.

13

Use of
troops to break transport
strike leads to
walkout
in Smithfield, 1947.

14

Emma
Goldman/Ethel Mannin meeting on Spanish
Revolution disrupted
by stalinists, 1938.

15

Bread riots
in Whitechapel,
1861.

16

Vicar George Bancroft Butterfield nicked for drunkenness & begging, South Kensington, 1888.

17

Patrice
Lumumba's murder
in the Congo triggers
riots in London, 1961.

18

Northwood military
base blockaded against
impending Iraq war, 2003.

19

First issue of socialist paper, Justice, appears, 1884.
(But see 23 December)

20

London Lesbian
Sex and Sexuality
Day held, 1990.

21

Chartists jailed
at Newgate for attending
seditious meetings, 1840.

22

Mass demo
of journeyman tailors at
House of Commons, 1745.

23

Scab coal porters/
cart drivers atttacked
during strike, 1914.

24

Riot in Wapping during printworkers' lockout, 1987.

25

Half price riots begin in London theatres, 1763.

26

East end
anti-conscription
meeting held,
Victoria Park, 1916.

27

Serial
deserter
shot,
Croydon,
1746.

28

UK Uncut blockade
Regent Street, 2012.

29

First issue of radical
Black Dwarf newspaper
published, 1817.

30

Occupy Bank of Ideas evicted, Finsbury, 2012.

31

Anti-war
meeting in
Trafalgar Square broken
up by jingoist mob, 1878.