4th October 1936. Anniversary of Cable St. A Which Side Are You On issue
Sunday marks the anniversary of the battle of Cable St when an attempt by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists to march through and intimidate Jewish communities in London’s East End was stopped by a mass mobilisation of thousands of ordinary Londoners, Jews and non-Jews, trade unionists, socialists, communists and many others.
It was not a protest that received the support of any part of the Establishment. It was organised from below and it worked.
David Rosenberg the socialist historian who has done so much work on the radical East End has written in the Morning Star about why Cable St remains important and the continuing battle against fascism
The same old story – fascism in London’s East End | Morning Star
As he notes the fight to stop fascists from marching and intimidating communities is not something that is over. It needs to be done again and again.
It was and still is a which side are you on question. Those who supported who at the very least did not want to oppose Mosely on 4th October 1936 are very much the same in 2026 from the political Establishment to the media to the police
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