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The Battle of Cable Street — why it’s still relevant to young people today
The legendary street war between anti-fascists and Mosley’s Blackshirts not only has historical importance for the working class, but continues to provide many lessons for young people facing right-wing bigotry today, writes JOE WEAVER
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WHY would young people, worried about their studies, income, availability of work and the pressures of friends and family, care about a struggle — the Battle of Cable Street — which took place 84 years ago?
The Battle of Cable Street is a distant memory even for our grandparents and very much an unknown for those of us born in more recent years. But some events stand out as turning points and deserve to be recorded in popular memory and in the history of the working class.
At the time, Cable Street dealt a decisive blow to anti-semitism and fascism in Britain — but today my generation find themselves confronting it again, albeit under different circumstances and in different guises.
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