Hi and welcome back to part two of our podcast miniseries about the 43 group of Jewish ex-servicemen and women,

who took their fight against fascism from the battlefields of World War II back to the streets of London and cities around Britain.

If you haven't heard part one yet, we recommend going back and listening to that first.

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Where we left off last time, after a successful street fight against a group of fascist speakers,

43 people met in London, mostly Jewish and mostly ex-servicemen and women,

and they set up a formal organisation to fight the re-emerging fascist movement by any means necessary.

Daniel Sonobend, author of We Fight Fascists, The 43 Group and Their Forgotten Battle for Post-World Britain,

explains more about the group and their strategy.

The 43 Group's aims and objectives, as given in one of the early pamphlets, were as follows.

1. To advocate the immediate passing of legislation to make fascist and

anti-Semitic organisations illegal. Two, to combat actively all fascist and anti-Semitic

organizations by, A, opposing their activities, and B, publicly exposing them.

Three, to awaken and unite all sections of the public against the menace of fascism.

4. To develop an organisation capable of communal defence.

And 5. To work and cooperate with all the other bodies combating fascism and anti-Semitism.

Basically, for the 43 group, the idea was defeat the fascists at all costs, no matter the method.

The most important thing was to knock the fascists off the streets.

If possible to get the government to ban them outright, although that was never going to happen,

but certainly to smash the fascists off the streets and get them to crawl back into the holes they came from.

And to let it be known, and this was why it was very important for the 43 group to identify as Jewish,

that the Jewish community was not going to take anti-Semitic

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