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Cable Street 88 years on: battling fascists then and now
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DAVID ROSENBERG assesses the far-right threat in the wake of the summer’s Islamophobic pogroms and asks what lessons we can learn from the 1930s
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Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke of “thuggery” and was especially concerned that police were attacked, though the main targets of what anti-fascist activists prefer to label “pogroms” by an insurgent far-right were long-settled Muslim communities and current asylum-seekers, including many Muslims. Yet Starmer would not let the word “Islamophobia” cross his lips.
There were attempts to set fire to hotels temporarily housing refugees, and threats made against law firms and advice centres that support asylum-seekers.
The state’s law and order-centred response to far-right pogroms in 2024 mirrors its responses to Cable Street. For several months in 1936, Jews experienced repeated street violence from Oswald Mosley’s fascists, culminating in Mosley’s threat to march thousands of Blackshirted fascists through the East End’s most heavily Jewish-populated streets on Sunday October 4.
Grassroots Labour members and trade unionists wanted to confront them, but Labour’s aloof hierarchy colluded with Tory and Liberal leaders to denounce plans for a counter-demonstration. From the relative comfort of the West End, the Jewish Board of Deputies made the same call.
Thankfully, many Jews completely ignored them, following the lead instead of the Jewish People’s Council against Fascism and Antisemitism (JPC), formed in the East End, and the Communist Party which had many local Jewish members. Trade unionists and Labour members, especially from the Labour League of Youth, joined the mass blockade at Gardiner’s Corner, and dockers from Irish Catholic families whom Mosley had tried to woo helped reinforce the barricades in Cable Street.
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Morning Star Editorial: The Tories are in denial. Unfortunately, so is Labour
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LABOUR has not felt threatened by the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham this week.
Its just-defeated rival is without a leader and has less than a third as many MPs as the government.
The Tories are in denial: not one speaker addressed the real causes of electoral defeat.
But this is less reassuring than it should be, because Labour too is in denial — about the nature of its victory and the urgency of delivering palpable improvements in living standards and public services.
The explanation for the collapse in Conservative support between 2019 and 2024 is straightforward. It was the sharp decline in quality of life felt by the majority of British people.
The most immediate cause was the cost-of-living crisis. While the inflationary crisis was global, British people were hit unusually hard because it came after more than a decade of falling real-terms wages.
Furthermore an asset-stripped, privatised utilities sector had not bothered to invest in reserves to mitigate shocks: Britain has gas reserves amounting to just 12 days’ usage, compared to 89 days in Germany or 103 in France, for example, leading to weaker resilience in the face of global price fluctuations. To cap it all our government of the rich, for the rich and by the rich did not take serious steps to control runaway prices.
At the same time, years of austerity and privatisation began to hit home across essential services.
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Protesters spray blood red paint on factory making F-35 components
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ACTIVISTS targeted an arms factory in Brighton which makes parts for fighter jets used by the Israeli military on Thursday.
The protesters sprayed the L3Harris factory with fake red blood and scrawled “L3Harris kills kids” near the entrance.
The firm continues to make bomb release mechanisms for F-35 fighter jets, which were excluded from the government’s embargo on 30 arms licences to Israel last month.
The jets have been used to drop 2,000lb bombs on Gaza and now in Israel’s attacks on Lebanon.
Locals have been campaigning for the factory’s landlord Paxton Access to evict the firm from the premises.
The community-wide campaign, spearheaded by StopL3Harris, has also called on the local council as freeholders of the land to shut it down.
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Pensioners to mobilise against cuts to winter fuel payments
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TRADE unionists and pensioners will mobilise on Monday to demand the government reverse its axing of the winter fuel allowance.
Unite, the National Pensioners Convention (NPC) and the Scottish Pensioners’ Forum will head a mass demonstration outside Parliament calling for the allowance to be restored to all pensioners.
During Labour’s annual conference last month, Unite defeated the party leadership when it won support for a motion demanding the restoration of the allowance and the introduction of a wealth tax to fund it.
The union is campaigning under the slogan “Defend the Winter Fuel Payment.”
Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said: “The government’s winter fuel policy needs to be reversed. Picking the pockets of pensioners is not a tough choice — it is a mistake
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