We're at the halfway mark of the #ModernCockneyFestival Do check out our events including exhibitions, opera, poetry, online discussions form the #BattleofCableStreet, walking tours and more.
Discover at www.moderncockneyfestival.org.uk
For 'non posh Londoners' everywhere
I also thought of the #BattleofCableStreet
Met bans UKIP from protesting in Tower Hamlets www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reminiscent of #BattleofCableStreet ?
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1936, the #BattleOfCableStreet brought together #anarchists, #socialists, #antifascists, #Jews, and #Irish workers in London's #EastEnd. They faced #OswaldMosley's #BritishUnionOfFascists and the Met #Police, routing them both & chasing off the #fascists.
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"The increasing intolerance displayed across the European political spectrum show that the same winds that blew across Cable Street [eighty-nine] years ago still exist today." #fascism
via @time.com | October 3, 2016
time.com/4516276/cabl...
"The thousands of Jews, trade unionists, communists and Irish workers who assembled that day nailed the coffin of British #fascism and ensured their place in history forever as the #BattleOfCableStreet ’s victors."
via #IrishPost | October 04, 2016
www.irishpost.com/features/how...
Today is the 89th anniversary of the #BattleofCableStreet. Find out more about the Battle and East End radical politics, poetry and song in Episode 2
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Today is the 89th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street so here's "Cable Street" by Albert Turpin from his post-war work, most likely to mid to late 1950s. This is actually a view of Grace's Alley, just off Cable Street. #AlbertTurpin #BattleofCableStreet #EastLondonGroup
Unite The Kingdom was a fascist march like that which fell upon Cable Street generations ago. Same ideology, same tactics, this time funded directly by the World's Rich, not even hiding it anymore....oh look Elon Musk addressing the crowd!
https://youtu.be/jIWDopLq8Hs?si=iaDz5EMhetRI3M6A […]
For the benefit of non British people, Mosley here was a British aristocrat and politician who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s when, having become disillusioned with mainstream politics, he turned to fascism. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_...
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And so we learn from history generations have to fight
And those who crave for mastery
Must be faced down on sight
And if that means by words, by fists, by stones or by the gun
Remember those who stood up for
Their daughters and their sons
#BattleOfCableStreet
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#OnThisDay in 1980: British pre-War and post-War British Fascist leader, Oswald Mosley dies at 84. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_...
#Mosley #OswaldMosley #BritishFascism #BritishUnionOfFascists #WWII #Antisemitism #BattleOfCableStreet
“¡No pasarán!” #BattleofCableStreet #CableStreet #Antifa #Antifascism #Communism #Socialism
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1936, a bunch of #anarchists, #antifascists, #Jews, #Irish workers, and other #WorkingClass people in London's East End fought the Met #Police and #Mosley's #BritishUnionOfFascists in the #BattleOfCableStreet. Never forget that worker #solidarity can win.
