Fighting fascism then and always
JVL Introduction
The best way to commemorate the stand against fascism in Cable Street in 1936 is to continue the fight, to mobilise the labour movement and the communities to challenge the ideas of fascism and to offer a real alternative to the simplistic, populist, “solutions” to the crisis facing capitalism in the 21st century. The specifics are different from 1936 but we see the rise of the far-right not only in terms of the Islamophobic rioting this summer in the UK but also in the increased support for far right and even fascist ideas from the support for Reform in the UK, to the vote shares for Germany’s AfD, and the Austrian Freedom (sic) Party. Le Pen in France as well as having Prime Ministers in Italy, Hungary, India and, of course, Israel.
Keep turning up for Palestine, keep supporting refugee rights and keep on arguing for the real way to solve the problems for those pushed out by modern capitalism, by globalisation and deindustrialisation. We must keep articulating a socialist vision, socialist answers and we must keep on opposing the far-right and fascism that are already making life difficult to impossible for working class people.
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This article was originally published by Morning Star on Fri 4 Oct 2024. Read the original here.
Cable Street 88 years on: battling fascists then and now
David Rosenberg assesses eh far-right threat in the wake of the summer’s Islamophobic pogroms and asks what lessons we can learn from the 1930s.
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Tommy Robinson’s a state asset, and he’s no more racist than the Torys or Labour.
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