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1
Evil Mayday, 1517:
trad holiday revels
end in City pogrom against foreign workers.
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Chartist Convention
ends, 1842: second
great Chartist petition
carried to Parliament.
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Anti-workfare actions bring chaos to tens of West End shops, 2012. |
4
The Daily Mail
first vomits its bile
into the world, 1896.
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Anarcha-feminist
Wild Women’s Weekend begins, in squatted Brixton housing benefit
office, 1990. |
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Bermondsey
Council refuse to
waste public money on George V jubilee, 1935.
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Strike at London
Metropolitan University against plans for
drastic cuts, 2009.
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Leading bosses meet
at Lord Mountbatten’s
flat to ask him
to head military
coup, 1968.
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9
Italian police spy
Rubino unmasked
at Charlotte Street
Anarchist club, 1902.
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Dingleys mechanical sawmill trashed by sawyers it has deprived of work, Limehouse, 1768.
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Plashet: Police
attack march in support of framed Newham 7, 1985.
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12
Derelict land in
Hounslow occupied for eco-village,
2009.
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13
1926 General Strike continues in many
parts of London, despite TUC
having called it off.
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7000 march behind
racist murder victim Altab Ali’s coffin from East End to
Downing St, 1978.
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Millenarian nutter James
Hadfield shoots at mad old George III, Theatre Royal, 1800. (see July 29th).
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Crap housing for
the plebs: Ronan Point explosion kills 4,
Newham, 1968.
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Police spy Theodore Reuss expelled from
the Socialist League, 1889.
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London bus strike
ends, 1917.
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1897: released from prison, Oscar Wilde stays with radical
vicar Stewart Headlam,
Bloomsbury.
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20
GH Baskomb encloses Chiselhurst Common,
1876 – locals trash fences,
and he backs down.
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21
Strike of London
carpenters & joiners
wins concessions
from 110 firms, 1896.
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Cross-dressing spy Chevalier d”Eon dies, Bloomsbury, 1810.
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23
Huge sailors’ riots in Greenwich over
pay arrears, 1774.
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1976: 350 women
strike at Trico factory,
Brentford, for equal pay with men. They win…
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25
Prison escaper Jack
Sheppard’s most hi-tech breakout, from Clerkenwell New Prison, 1724.
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An open air gig ends in proletarian shopping, Harlesden, 1987.
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1400 copies of
Killing No Murder
(calling for
Cromwell’s
assassination) seized,
London, 1657
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28
Electricians strike
starts at Royal Festival
Hall, South Bank,
1952 – goes national.
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Anarchist Errico Malatesta jailed for
libel, ie outing police
spy Belleli, 1912
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Playwright Christopher Marlowe murdered, 1593, Deptford – for being a spy? gay? An atheist?
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Disabled
suffragette activist
Rosa May Billinghurst
born, Lewisham, 1875.
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LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES 