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  • ‘They did not pass, they will not pass’

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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, 2016

    Anti-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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    The original Fascists Mussolini and Hitler …
    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.
    Elon Musk urges you to be a Fascist like him, says that you can ignore facts and reality then.

  • Challenge racism, stand with the victims of far-right terror

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    Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

    Migrants and refugees are not responsible for Britain’s ills – a message we must make absolutely clear, says JEREMY CORBYN MP

    LAST week, a horrendous murder took place in Southport as three children were brutally hacked to death in a violent knife attack. What followed showed both the best and worst of society.

    The best was the outpouring of support for the grieving families of the children. The worst was the far-right forces who attacked the mosque in Southport, a hotel housing refugees in Rotherham, and Muslim-run businesses across the country.

    These far-right attacks on the Muslim community echo the tactics of the Nazis against Jewish people, shops and businesses in Germany in the 1930s. In both scenarios, the far right use violence against minorities and blame them for poverty, housing shortages and pressures on health and education services.

    The emboldening of the racist right has come from the growing use of anti-migrant language by supposedly mainstream politicians, claiming that desperate people crossing the Channel in flimsy boats are an “invading force.”

    The same voices seem unable or unwilling to acknowledge that wars cause refugee flows, and that the migrants who have made their homes in Britain work tirelessly to try and make underfunded services work at all.

    At the same time, we are witnessing an economic strategy inherited from the Tories which increases the huge wealth gap in our society, perpetuates austerity and ignores the desperate poverty of so many children.

    The response of the left must be to stand with the victims of far-right terror, challenge the far-right racism and call for the government to address the common issues facing all communities: the housing crisis, crumbling education and the collapse of our NHS.

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