London Rebel History Calendar - September 2020

Remember
when gin drinking was rebellious, not
hipster
eyewash?

1

Poplar Councillors
arrested for refusing
to levy Borough rates,
1921... (but see Sept 26th).

2

Fascists routed
by a huge crowd, Ridley Rd, Dalston, 1962: would-be fuhrer
Oswald Mosley battered.

3

Anti-phone mast protest London Fields, 2004.

4

Thieves & gamblers attempt rescue of mates from St Martins Roundhouse, 1744.

5

Stepney Relief Committee is besieged by angry out-of-work river workers., 1914

6

Black Watch
mutineers deported
from Tower to West
Indies and America, 1743.

7

DPAC disabled protesters
block Westminster
Bridge protesting deaths
arising from government
welfare 'reforms', 2016.

8

Cable Street Beat/
Anti Fascist
Action Unity Carnival,
Hackney Downs, 1991.

9

Teddy boys riot in
W. Ham, Stratford, Leyton, Brentford, Twickenham, Chadwell Heath, 1956.

10

Rent striking
homeless families
barricade Edward Henry
House, Waterloo, 1973.

11

Leveller petition for the adoption of the Agreement of the People presented
to Parliament, 1648.

12

100,000 strong
demonstration in solidarity with migrants fleeing
war-torn countries, 2015.

13

DSEI arms fair opens
to mass protests,
Canning Town, 2011.

14

Great East End Dock strike
comes to an end,
winning a wage
rise, 1889.

15

Thomas Paine flees to France, 1792, after being charged with sedition.

16

1986: squatted
creche evicted
for 4th time,
Brixton.

17

Failure of the first attempt to assassinate Cromwell by Miles Sindercombe &
disaffected Levellers, 1656.

18

Food riots in
the City, 1800.

19

'Homes Not
Hotels': locals protest
opening of Tower Hotel,
St Katherine's dock, 1973.

20

Mass squat
of posh Duchess of Bedford flats ends, Kensington, 1946.

21

Carpenters
Estate occupied
in protest at
gentrification,
Stratford, 2014.

22

Workers building
South Bank Shell Building march to support St
Pancras Rent
Strikers, 1960.

23

Alleged IRA
member Diarmuid
O'Neill shot
dead on his
doorstep,
unarmed, Hammersmith,
1996.

24

March Against Racist
Attacks,
Newham, 1983.

25

Trial of
William Cuffay and other Chartists for plotting armed uprising begins,
1848.

26

Left Labour/
Communist councillors
call cops on unemployed
deputation, Poplar, 1923.

27

70,000 attend
Dod Street free speech
rally, Limehouse, 1885,
after cops attack socialists.

28

Gin-sellers hold Mock funeral procession for Madam Geneva on eve of passage of Gin
Act, 1736.

29

Hyde Park mass
demo unites striking
East/West End tailors,
jewish and gentile, 1889.

30

Anti police rioting
in Peckham, 1985.