04/10/2026
Today is the 90th anniversary of The Battle of Cable Street.
in 1936, around 3,000 of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists tried to march through Cable Street, in an attempt to terrorise the local Jewish community.
But the fascists were outnumbered, and stopped, by a mobilisation of thousands more anti-fascists, uniting members of the Jewish community, members of the Irish community, dockers and many other women and men - in what Cable Street veteran Phil Piratin called an "immense human barricade".
With the rise of Hi**er, Mussolini and other fascists across Europe at the time, Cable Street was a pivotal moment in pushing back Britain's fascists.
Anti-fascists at Cable Street said : "They Shall Not Pass!"
Cable Street veteran Alf Goldberg, who Unite Against Fascism had the honour of working with, in the fight against the BNP in Blackpool, wrote about the Battle Of Cable Street:
'The nearer we got to the East End, the denser the crowds grew. I cannot remember seeing so many people massed together in a demonstration. At one point I managed to get a glimpse of the heads of the 3,000 fascists who were flanked by protecting policemen, estimated afterwards to number about 7,000.
Eventually the whole assembly merged into an amorphous mass of humanity, with no-one sure of what was really happening. Reports later estimated the crowds at some 100,000. Despite the confusion, however, it was obvious that the fascist marchers had been halted and would be going in only one direction, physically and politically - backwards.'
With the advance of fascist organisations ninety years on, it is vital that we carry on the tradition of Cable Street in order to stop them again.
Join the fight against the fascists today.
They shall not pass!
They did not pass!
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