Community
gardens
belong to no country - and no borough
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1
Ranter Abiezer
Coppe questioned
in Parliament committee for
alleged blasphemy, 1650. |
2
Riots in
London continue, 1985. |
3
Black
Liberation Army Spaghetti House Siege ends, 1975. |
4
3 people jailed for occupying Greek Embassy,
protesting coup in Greece, 1967.
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5
Working class
Women's Suffrage activist
Jessie Craigen dies, 1899. |
6
Far right
National Front hold demo,
1979, but their numbers are in decline. |
7
Sisters Uncut protest
cuts to domestic violence
services at premiers of
Suffragette film, 2015.
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8
Waiters, chefs
and kitchen hands at
London's Savoy hotel
strike, 1946. (See Nov 7th). |
9
London
gas strike ends, 1950. |
10
Healthworkers strike
against health cuts, 1991. |
11
London
Corresponding
Society founder Thomas
Hardy dies, Pimlico, 1832.
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12
National Union
of the Working Classes
march to protest rejection
of second reform bill, 1831.
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13
Mass escape
of prisoners from
Whitechapel gaol, 1763. |
14
London Socialist & anarchist
groups protest
impending execution of the
Chicago Anarchists, 1887. |
15
Regicide John
Carew, who voted
for the execution of Charles I, himself executed, Charing Cross, 1660. |
16
Crowd attacks Marine Police office, Wapping,
after 2 coal-heavers
arrested for stealing
coal from docks, 1798.
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17
Sailors riot, destroy
rip off pubs, and fight
the army, East End, 1763.
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18
Unemployed
marchers battled
police outside County Hall at St George's Circus, 1932. |
19
National anti-poll
tax demo, 1991. |
20
John Burns,
worker, socialist,
turned Liberal politico, born, Vauxhall, 1858. |
21
March & sitdown
at Russian Embassy,
after USSR restarts
nuclear testing. 1961. |
22
Public
meeting protests
racist Savoy Hotel barring black singer Paul Robeson, 1929. |
23
100 postal workers strike at Leyton Delivery office, 2003. |
24
1970: Angry Brigade
bomb cleaning dept
office, Greenford, during
council workers strike.
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25
Irish republican
Mayor of Cork, Terence McSweeney, dies on hunger
strike,
Brixton Prison, 1920.
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26
150,000
attend London
Corresponding Society rally for reform, 1795. |
27
Mutineers marching
on Whitehall dispersed
by cavalry charge, 1653. |
28
1979: demo against anti-abortion 'Corrie Bill'. |
29
Tidemill Community Garden, Deptford, evicted by police on orders of
Lewisham Council, 2018. |
30
Squatted Freston Road residents vote
to declare independence
from UK, 1977. |
31
First National Black Gay Men's Conference,
Hampden Community
centre, Camden, 1987. |
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