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A good month for
incoherent
insurrection,
especially plundering palaces & other posh pads…
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1
1947: fascist British League rally, Ridley
Road market, Hackney,
smashed by Jewish 43 Group. |
2
Brian Haw
sets up peace camp,
Parliament Square, 2001. |
3
2000: several people
nicked for mooning
at the monarchy,
Buckingham Palace.
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4
Police drive 19
nicked anti-Jubilee
protestors to copshops in
co-opted no 11 bus. 2002.
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5
Defend NHS demo, Central London, 2014.
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6
Best thing since
sliced bread: Gordon
rioters roll Lord Sandwich
in the mud, 1780.
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7
Striking miners besiege Parliament, 1984.
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8
Revolting peasants
plunder a rich man’s house,
North Cray, 1381.
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9
Pioneering woman
medic & suffragist. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson born, Whitechapel, 1836.
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10
Striking miners
& anti-fascists beat
off nazi skin attack
on GLC festival, 1984.
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11
Arrest of apprentice sparks street riot,
Bermondsey, 1592.
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12
Marshalsea Prison & Lambeth Palace stormed by peasant rebels, 1381.
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13
Blank generation?
17 year old Marcus Sarjeant fires blanks at queen, The Mall, 1981.
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14
Occupy camp
evicted from
Finsbury Square, 2012.
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15
Radical Journo William Cobbett gets 2 years in Newgate for objecting to flogging in militia, 1810.
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16
Society for the
Protection of Animals founded in London
coffeehouse, 1824.
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17
Troops
again sent in
to break London
dock strike, 1948.
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18
Post Black Death serf
shortage labour law passed to stop plebs bettering wages/conditions, 1349.
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19
Suffragettes target Chancellor
Asquith’s house,
Cavendish Square, 1906.
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20
John Glover, Ben Bowsey & James Jackson hanged for their part in burning Newgate Prison, 1780.
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21
Big London Jewish
anarchist demo
protesting pogroms
in Russia, 1903.
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22
Thames, 1758: crew of Prince of Wales ship fight off press gang during navy ‘recruitment’ campaign.
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23
Traditional date
for beginning of rowdy Pinner Fair. ‘Unusually disorderly’ in 1906…
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24
Fashionable
strollers mobbed
in Hyde Park
in Sunday
Trading Bill riots 1855.
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25
Protesting torture
of jailed suffragettes
gets Labour MP George Lansbury suspended
from Parliament, 1912.
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26
‘Incoherent insurrection’ in the City, as
king struggles with
uppity barons,
1263.
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27
Police raid Fitzrovia house looking for ‘French
anarchist bombers’, 1892. No bombers found.
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28
Black communist singer Paul Robeson speaks at anti-nuclear rally, Trafalgar Square, 1959.
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29
West Indies first cricket
victory over England at Lords, sparks victory demo through West End, 1950.
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30
Army Depot
firebombed,
Southfields, 1970.
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LONDON RADICAL HISTORIES 