Join the Cable Street 85th Anniversary march and rally
JVL Introduction
The Jewish Socialists’ Group has worked consistently in the anti-racist and anti-fascist movement since its formation almost fifty years ago.
Here is its call to join the Cable Street 85th anniversary rally and celebrations this weekend on Sunday 3rd October
It recounts the positive role of radical left-wing Jews and their allies and the failings of the Jewish establishment at the time; and it makes links with Bengali resistance to racism and fascism in the East End in the 1970s.
The rally this year will be co-chaired by a Jewish Socialists’ Group member and a Bengali activist – two communities brought together by a history of resistance to racism and fascism.
We call on all who can to join the demonstration on Sunday.
This article was originally published by Jewish Socialist on Wed 29 Sep 2021. Read the original here.
March with pride on 3rd October!
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Inspiring!
Never forget
Twas the women what won the Battle of Cable Street
My grand dad was arrested and fined 10 shillings. Still fighting the fascists, I will be there.
I will be there in spirit. The lessons of History are so important. I learn ever day about our history that seems to have been deliberately hidden from us. I am ashamed I did not know about this and other aspects of what has happened to shape this country …we need to make sure our children are better informed.
Truly inspiring. “The people united will never be defeated”!
Really? I’m not sure that’s correct. I’m proud of the women who played their part, especially the ones who tipped the contents of chamber pots on to the police trying to force a way through for Mosley’s Blackshirts. But it was the solidarity and determination of all the local communities. Everyone played their part, women and men, Jews, Irish and others, to ensure the police and the British state didn’t enable the fascists to invade their area.
Truly inspiring
I’ll be there in spirit!
I can’t be with you for the rally but wish you every success with it. My mother and her brothers were in Cable Street as Communist Party members, with tales to tell of events there.
(If it is useful to have their names they were the Bowles family: my mother Phyllis, the brothers who I feel most certainly were there were Geoffrey and Ellis.)
Thanks Julia
I open the door
I’m a proud Geordie, my nana was originally from the Isle of Dogs, she brought me up from age 15
She had knitting needle arms but could knock you out with one punch, in those days the women ruled the roost, nothing happened without their consent
Hard as Whinstone, they had to be for the family to survive
Would be good as you say to make it clear exactly who fought and won the battle and who did not, but still jump on the bandwagon every year
Truly inspiring
I would love to join this historic event