Antifa: Cable Street Anniversary Gig - Saturday 6th October 2007

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Cable Street Anniversary Gig - Saturday 6th October 2007

Chat's Palace, 42-44 Brooksby's Walk,
London E9 6DF
Opposite Homerton hospital

£5 unwaged - 7 waged

Call 07880 697 831 for more info. Organised by some people from Antifa.

Featuring:

Blaggers i.t.a (tbc)
Geoffrey oi! cott
Bottle Job
Mob
Buliopesto
Moonstomp DJs

More bands and special guests to be confirmed. Check web site - http://www.antifa.org.uk

See http://www.antifa.org.uk/images/gig.jpg for a larger image

Background

The Battle of Cable Street or Cable Street Riot took place on Sunday October 4, 1936 in Cable Street in the East End of London. It was a clash between the police, overseeing a legal march by the British Union of Fascists (led by Oswald Mosley) on one side, and anti-fascists including local Jewish, socialist, Irish and communist groups on the other.

The majority of both marchers and counter-protesters travelled into the area for this purpose. Mosley planned to send thousands of marchers dressed in uniforms styled on those of Blackshirts through the East End of London, with its large Jewish population. The Board of Deputies of British Jews denounced the march as Jew-baiting and urged Jews to stay away.

Despite the strong likelihood of violence, the government refused to ban the march, and a large escort of police was provided in an attempt to prevent anti-fascist protestors disrupting the march.

The anti-fascist groups erected illegal roadblocks in an attempt to prevent the march from taking place. Although the police attempted to clear the road to permit the march to proceed, after a series of running battles between the police and anti-fascist demonstrators, the march did not take place, and the B.U.F. marchers were dispersed towards Hyde Park instead.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street

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