East Londoners barricaded the streets to stop Mosley's fascist march

In October 1936, tens of thousands of Jewish, Irish, and socialist East Enders built barricades and fought police to stop Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists marching through Cable Street. The march was called off within hours, and the clash became Britain's defining anti-fascist symbol of the 1930s.

— David Rosenberg, Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s — Five Leaves Publications, 2011
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