374. The Battle of Cable Street: Fascism Defeated

The Rest Is History

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🗓️ 1 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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“You will never catch Sir Oswald admitting to anti-semitism - all he does is embody it!” Following the violent scenes at Kensington Olympia, the British fascist movement is in decline. Britain is swirling with unemployment, having just come out of a decade of general strikes, and as the country suffers, changes and becomes more urbanised, the fascists seek a scapegoat to pin Britain’s downfall on. On the 6th of October 1936, Mosley gathers with 3000 of his blackshirts to march through Cable Street, in London’s East End, an area with a large Jewish population; they are met by 100,000 anti-fascist demonstrators blocking the streets… Join Tom and Dominic in the third episode of our series on British fascism, as they look at the Battle of Cable Street, fascism in the pre-war years, Oswald’s role in the anti-war movement, his eventual arrest and detainment, and much more. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Producer: Theo Young-Smith Executive Producers: Jack Davenport + Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let James Holland take you to places in history. You've never been before.
0:04.6	The Savage Storm is the fascinating new book which brings to life the story of our Allied forces
0:09.8	as they crossed into southern Italy in 1943.
0:12.8	With unflinching and insightful detail, Holland places you in the heart of the action of this most pivotal
0:17.8	and brutal battles of the war with Germany.
0:20.4	The Savage Storm is out now in hardback and available from all good bookshops.
0:30.0	The Battle of Cable Street has a deep personal significance to me as I learned all about this historic event
0:41.4	on the 4th of October 1936 from my mother who was there herself.
0:45.6	84 years ago she stood alongside many others and later recalled how tens of thousands of people
0:52.6	from an incredibly diverse range of community organisations, faith groups, trade unions,
0:58.2	the Labour Party, left wing groups and others had come together against the planned march
1:02.8	by Oswald Mosley's union of British fascists and those police guarding it through a heavily Jewish neighbourhood.
1:09.6	Communities joined together to support each other with one simple aim
1:13.8	to stop the fascists from marching through the east end
1:17.8	and determinedly say they wouldn't let them pass.
1:21.4	Those who stood there in Cable Street all those years ago did so as an act of defiance
1:27.0	and an act of principle and we walk in their shadow.
1:31.8	That Dominic was a Jeremy Corbyn, the late leader of the Labour Party,
1:37.2	writing in the Morning Star in the 1st of October 2020 about one of the mythic episodes
1:44.4	in the history of the Labour Party and the history of anti-fascism
1:47.2	what's been come to be called the Battle of Cable Street
1:50.6	when as Jeremy Corbyn put it, left wing groups and others came together against the planned march
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