http://libcom.org/tags/cable-street libcom.org tags en http://libcom.org/library/battle-cable-st-1936-joe-jacobs <p>Joe describes events leading up to the march, including the changes in the CP leadership&#039;s tactics as they finally realised their calls for a peaceful demonstration elsewhere would be ignored. His account corrects false impressions later created by official Communist versions of the events.</p> <p><a href="http://libcom.org/library/battle-cable-st-1936-joe-jacobs">read more</a></p> http://libcom.org/library/battle-cable-st-1936-joe-jacobs#comments UK Joe Jacobs military and law enforcement 1930s accounts Cable Street Communist Party fascism London Tower Hamlets Sat, 21 Jul 2007 18:25:16 +0000 Ret Marut 16860 at http://libcom.org http://libcom.org/news/day-the-east-end-said-no-pasaran-to-blackshirts-30092006 <p><span style="font-style:italic">From The Guardian (Saturday September 30, 2006) by Audrey Gillan.<br /> </span></p> <p>They built barricades from paving stones, timber and overturned lorries. Women threw the contents of chamber pots on to the heads of policemen and children hurled marbles under their horses and burst bags of pepper in front of their noses.</p> <p><a href="http://libcom.org/news/day-the-east-end-said-no-pasaran-to-blackshirts-30092006">read more</a></p> http://libcom.org/news/day-the-east-end-said-no-pasaran-to-blackshirts-30092006#comments UK 1930s Cable Street fascism race Sat, 30 Sep 2006 10:25:04 +0000 rkn 10634 at http://libcom.org http://libcom.org/library/fascists-and-police-routed-battle-cable-street <p>Cable Street - October 4th 1936 - an eye witness account by Reg Weston, Higham resident and life-time NUJ member.</p><p><a href="http://libcom.org/library/fascists-and-police-routed-battle-cable-street">read more</a></p> http://libcom.org/library/fascists-and-police-routed-battle-cable-street#comments UK 1930s Cable Street fascism London race riots Tower Hamlets Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:21:08 +0000 libcom 1420 at http://libcom.org