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A demonstrator releases a smoke flare in front of a mural on Cable Street in the East End of London, which commemorates the Battle of Cable Street, October 6, 2016Anti-fascist, trade unionists and Eastenders to celebrate victory over Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts at the Battle of Cable Street 90 years ago
ANTI-FASCISTS, trade unionists and Eastenders will come together this weekend to celebrate victory over Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts at the Battle of Cable Street 90 years ago.
Declaring “they did not pass, they will not pass,” a march and rally this Sunday, October 4, will honour the Jewish and Irish communities of the East End, the communists and socialists who mobilised to stop the fascists marching through Cable Street 90 years ago — and to stand together against “hatred, division and racist scapegoating” on Saturday.
“This Sunday every anti-fascist can celebrate the decisive moment when British fascism was blocked, driven back, and Oswald Mosley’s attempt to build a working-class base for his reactionary and racist political project was sent into reverse,” Communist Party general secretary Alex Gordon said, calling for a huge turnout.
“Mosley’s attempt to build a political movement on antisemitism, was defeated by the class unity of Jewish and Irish workers in Cable Street and the solidarity of working-class anti-fascists from across Britain.
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