Tower Hamlets

Content on libcom.org about the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

Tower Hamlets

Battle of Cable Street, 1936, photo gallery

Photo gallery from the 1936 Battle of Cable Street, which saw over 100,000 working-class residents in London's East End oppose a march by Oswald…

Brick Lane 1978: the events and their significance - Kenneth Leech

Scanned PDF booklet about the events in Brick Lane, in London's East End, in 1978, where Bengali…

Stop the EDL in Tower Hamlets - Part II (7 September, 2013)

The English Defence League have announced plans to march to Altab Ali Park* for a rally on 7th…

Social cleansing in Tower Hamlets: interview with Balfron Tower evictee - James Butler

James Butler interviews Sara, a single-parent in Tower Hamlets, East London, which illustrates the…

Ruderman (back row, right)

The street where God did not strike down Feigenbaum

A short account of anarchist connections to Hanbury Street in the East End of London.

Helena Applebaum with Lou

Echoes of Ferrer in an East End back street

An anarchist history of Fieldgate Street in the East End of London

MOTD: EDL vs UAF

DSG aims to publish posts and propaganda from various sources as provocation and stimulation. The following text was produced by Paul O’Hagan, a journalist living in East London. He is…

Video from the Battle of Cable Street, 1936

Video footage of the Battle of Cable Street, when Sir Oswald Mosely's fascists tried to march through east London, and were stopped when hundreds…

Struggle as a second language - interview with Tower Hamlets College strikers

An interview with two workers involved in the open-ended strike against cuts at Tower Hamlets…

Keeping Occupied - Living on the Ocean Estate in Stepney Green

An interesting personal account of squatting on an estate in Tower Hamlets, east London.

An account of unofficial action at Tower Hamlets College

A short account by a participant of a staff rebellion in 2009 against an enforced training session,…

Tower Hamlets College strikers interview

The Commune interviews two participants in the September 2009 ESOL teachers strike in East London against job cuts.