ON October 4 1936, 90 years ago, the local Jewish community, Irish dockers, unemployed workers, trade unionists, socialists and communists came together to defend the East End of London against Oswald Mosley’s fascists and stopped them from marching down Cable Street. Now, 90 years later, once again facing a rising tide of fascism, with masked men in black uniforms intimidating people on our streets, this time with anti-migrant rhetoric and Islamophobia, alongside a dangerous growth in antisemitism, we have to reflect on some of the lessons of the Battle of Cable Street. What can we take from that historic victory that we can use today to organise against the far right? In spite of the parallels, today isn’t the 1930s. The conditions aren’t exactly the same, although there are many common threads. How can we apply the lessons of the past in the circumstances of today? I think there are three key lessons we can draw from the Battle of Cable Street that can inform the way we respond to fascism today. The first is that that defeat of the British Union of Fascists and of Mosley at Cable Street was a product of an unprecedented unity. The entire community...

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