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Cable Street veteran and communist Max Levitas dies at 103
The Cable Street Mural, on Cable Street in East London

THE Morning Star is sad to announce the death of anti-fascist Max Levitas, who passed away peacefully today aged 103.

Jewish communist Mr Levitas was a veteran of the Battle of Cable Street, where the Communist Party and Jewish community of London’s East End routed Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936.

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