Antifa - Battle of Cable Street Anniversary Benefit Gig, 11 October 2008

from email, updated 7 October 2008:

Don't miss this year's Cable Street Anniversary gig in London.

Saturday 11 October 2008
Chat's Palace
42-44 Brooksby's Walk
Homerton,
Hackney
London
E9 6DF

with:

radical dance faction
dipsomaniacs
bottlejob
i vermi
axis of evil
liberty
moonstomp

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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