The Battle of Cable Street 1936: the epic defeat of the fascists in the Jewish East End

4:30pm Saturday 5 September

About this session

This year is the 90th anniversary of the mass demonstration when 300,000 people came together to defend the Jewish population and confront the fascists at Cable Street in London in October 1936. Called the great epic of the Jewish East End, those who took part never forgot what it was like to be there and passed the feeling on to later generations. Organised by socialists and labour activists this event was a high point of the opposition to fascists in the Jewish East End. Janey Stone, co-author (with Donny Gluckstein) of The Radical Jewish Tradition, will put the mass struggle into context and talk about the broader movement and the creation, even for a short time, of a radical united movement of the working class in its broadest sense.

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