Solidarity 418, 5 October 2016

80 years ago: when workers stopped the fascists at Cable Street

Ruah Carlyle looks at the 4 October 1936 Battle of Cable Street, where anti-fascists stopped the police clearing a route for Oswald Mosley’s fascist march in East London. Click here for the full article in Workers’ Liberty 35 of which this is an abridgement - amd for the full article as pdf . In 1936 Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists turned its attention to East London, and there built the only truly mass base fascism ever built in Britain. The East End branches of the BUF became, by spring 1936, the centre of BUF activity. Why? What was it about East London that focused BUF attention...

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