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	GO BRITANNIA! Travel Guide: London's East End - Cable Street
		Cable Street is known for its 'battle' which took place there on Sunday 4 October 1936.
		The battle of Cable street showed that Mosely and his flshirts that their brand of hate were not wanted.
		Around the corner from where the Battle of Cable Street took place, in John Fisher Street, there is a war memorial on the side of K Block on the Peabody Estate.
	www.britannia.com /travel/london/cockney/cable.html (383 words)

	Battle of Cable Street -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Battle of Cable Street or Cable Street Riot took place on Sunday October 4, 1936 in the (Click link for more info and facts about East End of London) East End of London.
		Although the police attempted to clear the road to permit the march to proceed, after a series of running battles between the police and anti-fascist demonstrators, the march did not take place, and the B.U.F. marchers were dispersed.
		The Battle of Cable Street led to the passage of the (Click link for more info and facts about Public Order Act 1936) Public Order Act 1936, which forbade the wearing of political uniforms in public, and is widely considered to be a significant factor in the B.U.F's political decline prior to World War II.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_cable_street.htm (290 words)

	RPM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		At a few of the street corners in Bethnal Green and Hackney on the way – a very few – there were knots of those who jeered and spat and stretched out their right arms in salute to their leader.
		I was at the Battle of Cable Street but not in the front line – that was to come later in North Africa and in Italy.
		It was not – it was a battle with the police.
	www.red-star-research.org.uk /rpm/cablestreet.html (2351 words)

	The Battle of Cable Street (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The confrontation between police and anti-fascists was concentrated on Cable Street, through which the fascists were intending to march.
		Cable Street took place on (he eve of the Labour Party annual conference, which unanimously passed an emergency resolution condemning "the tragic and deplorable events of yesterday in the East End of London".
		Cable Street demonstrates the one-sidedness of those who argue that all actions must take place through the official labour movement.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/History/Cable.html (3272 words)

	Battle of Cable Street
		One of the biggest myths about the BUF is the so-called "battle" of Cable Street when it is alleged that on the 4 October 1936, the whole of Stepney rose as one to prevent a march by the BUF through the East -End of London.
		Meanwhile the communists in Cable Street had overturned a lorry; timber was expropriated from a builder's yard, along with bricks with which to pelt the police.
		Broken glass was strewn across the road to hamper and injure the police horses and the battle between the police and communists lasted for some hours, overall there were dozens of injured police and 70 arrests.
	www.oswaldmosley.com /misc_documents/cablest.htm (1124 words)

	CABLE STREET 1936
		The alliance of communists and Jews organised opposition with barricades at nearby Cable Street and this was where the stuff of myth and legend was first created.
		The "battle" of Cable Street was not a pitched battle between Blackshirts and a "spontaneous uprising of the angry working class".
		It was, in fact, a pitched battle between the communists and the police who were trying to clear a way through for Mosley.
	www.nationeuropa.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /page4.html (644 words)

	East End talking
		cable Street the battle the mural painters for teachers
		Leman Street was also blocked by protesters – despite the attempts of the police to clear it.
		The Blackshirts didn’t want to march along St George’s Street, as Wapping was a Catholic area – so that left Cable Street.
	www.eastendtalking.org.uk /OurHistory/CableStreet/battle.asp (991 words)

	History On-Line
		The Battle of Cable Street is, excluding events connected to the Royal family and world wars, the most remembered day in twentieth century Britain.
		The problem of fascist-communist violence and the growth of political anti-semitism in east London was the background to both the Battle of Cable Street and the passing of the Public Order Act in 1936.
		Jewish responses to the Battle of Cable Street and indeed to fascist anti-semitism in general were varied and complex.
	www.history.ac.uk /ihr/Resources/Books/1462169X.html (3935 words)

	I couldn't paint golden angels - Chapter II
		A barricade was erected at Cable Street though it's hard to say what would have happened if Mosley had carried on with the march -- surrounded as he inevitably was with a huge police contingent.
		I was a few streets away at an open-air meeting, the first one I ever spoke at, and my first time in the East End proper.
		But whereas in Barcelona they had been able to rally in crisis to their union halls, all we had to rally to was the London Freedom Group, and it was in a bad way, age having caught up with it at last and its never-ending weekly 'lectures' we thought a poor substitute for action.
	www.spunk.org /texts/writers/meltzer/sp001591/angels2.html (7940 words)

	19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields : Times Education Supplement - September 2003
		Aisha and 20 other Year 4 pupils from Osmani Primary School in Bethnal Green, east London are visiting 19 Princelet Street, an old Georgian terraced house-come-museum just around the corner from Brick Lane in Spitalfields, an area of the capital which, for centuries, has served as the first stop for each new wave of immigrants.
		In another room, excavated beneath the secret synagogue, anti-fascist meetings were held in the 1930s before the famous Battle of Cable Street.
		It was a meeting point for Jews fleeing Nazi Germany, and a place of sanctuary for the children whisked away from the continent on Kinder transport trains.
	www.19princeletstreet.org.uk /press/030910TimesEd.html (751 words)

	Society \| Low lives relived in the East End
		Out on the streets desperate men with the accents of eastern Europe scratch a living hawking trinkets and contraband cigarettes.
		Now 80, this son of a Jewish tailor took to the streets at 15 against Oswald Mosley's fascists during the battle of Cable Street.
		In East End 1888 Prof Fishman cites Jack the Ripper as the biggest catalyst for social change: "The murders in the autumn of 1888 created a climate of fear and were reported all over the world which awoke a wider population to the state of the East End.
	society.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4284159-105910,00.html (941 words)

	19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields : London Jewish News.
		Nine-year-old Aisha and her classmates are peering at a pile of old, battered, brown leather suitcases, heaped on a dusty, wooden floor.
		‘Here’ is 19 Princelet Street, an old, Georgian, terraced house-come-museum just around the corner from Brick Lane, and barely a Lascar’s spit from Spitalfields Market, an area of the capital that, for centuries, has served as a first home to each new wave of immigrants.
		Beneath the secret synagogue is another room where some of the early anti-fascist meetings were held in the 1930s, before the famous ‘Battle of Cable Street’.
	www.19princeletstreet.org.uk /press/creSummer03.html (596 words)

	East End talking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A demonsration by Oswald Mosley's (fascist) “Blackshirts” on 4th October 1936 led to the Battle of Cable Street.
		The Blackshirts decided to march down Cable Street, as this street was mainly Jewish.
		That night there was dancing in the pubs and side streets of the East End to celebrate their victory.
	www.eastendtalking.org.uk /OurHistory/legends?ID=11 (568 words)

	Guardian \| 'A priest was firing at us' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		"After the Battle of Cable Street with the fascists I was given three months' hard labour, accused of hitting a police inspector with a brick.
		He was in time for the battle of Jarama, the fight to stop Franco's troops cutting off the road from Madrid to Valencia in February 1937.
		There was a priest in the church steeple firing at us and when he came down he pushed the villagers to shield him while he kept shooting.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4088967-103680,00.html (231 words)

	A Spiritual Typhus
		One of the tragedies of the democratic drift is that profound truths may become truisms without being incorporated in legislative action, especially those truths that require to be imaginatively perceived.
		But should those forty million people be fighting a battle no less desperate against all the nameless armies of decadence and ruin that threaten the spirit, the politician can be trusted to observe nothing and therefore not to be diverted from his major business in life, which is service to his own career.
		Lack of appreciation of this fact, or else a subconscious acquiescence in its implications on the part of the parasitical overlords, has led many a civilization to disaster and many a nation to its grave.
	www.oswaldmosley.com /misc_documents/spiritual_typhus.html (549 words)

	Fascism - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Critics point out that Marxists and trade unionists were the first targets, and the first victims, of both Mussolini and Adolf Hitler once they came to power.
		the 1936 Battle of Cable Street in London of Trotskyists and members of the Communist Party of Great Britain against Mosely's supporters, and
		A more serious manifestation of the conflict between fascism and socialism was the Spanish Civil War, mentioned earlier in this article.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Fascist (6424 words)

	Guardian \| Arthur Moyse
		He was at the battle of Cable Street in 1936, when the British Union of Fascists were prevented from marching into the East End.
		There was a personal exhibition at the old D'Arblay Street site in 1977, and Arthur contributed to many other events organised by the Flowers group.
		A special one was the exhibition of the letters and postcards he had sent over the years to Rachel Flowers, the daughter of the family.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4624097-103684,00.html (610 words)

	The Battle of Cable Street, 1936 Describe Britain's economic situation between 1929-1936
		The Battle of Cable Street, 1936 Describe Britain's economic situation between 1929-1936
		Coursework and Essays: By Subject: History: The Battle of Cable Street, 1936 Describe Britain's economic situation between 1929-193
		Below is a short sample of the essay "The Battle of Cable Street, 1936 Describe Britain's economic situation between 1929-1936".
	www.coursework.info /i/17532.html (509 words)

	Jewish East End of London
		Physician, "The Angel of Cable Street" 198 Cable St. The George Medal is equivalent to the Victoria Cross and is awarded for extreme bravery.
		A large mural on the wall of the old library in Cable Street (best viewed from Library Place), which commemorates the Battle of Cable Street in 1936, when the Jewish inhabitants joined with the dock workers preventing the Fascist Black Shirts from marching through the East End.
		She served as a private in the 5th Regiment of Foot and was wounded in the arm, fighting the French at the Battle of Fontenoy in 1745.
	www.rigal.freeserve.co.uk /east_end.htm (1722 words)

	The East End Then and Now (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		It was here that the sufragette movement was born and where the great Victorian philantrophists first began their good works.
		And it was here that Jack the Ripper stalked his victims in the dark and foggy streets.
		The East End was the first area of Britain to suffer from mass German bombing, heralded by the daylight raid on Black Saturday in september 1940, and the place that saw the rise and fall of the Kray twins.
	www.wansteadonline.co.uk /pages/history/books/0900913991.asp (265 words)

	Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cable Street is known for the "battle" which took place here on Sunday 5 October 1936.
		Barricades were build in Cable Street and fighting broken out between residents and the police who were trying to clear a way through.
		Fener Brockway, then Secretary of the Independent Labour Party, was injured by a police horse, and, realising the clash would occur if the Fascists succeeded in passing, telephoned the Home Office.
	www.mds.qmw.ac.uk /admissions/cable.htm (115 words)

	Anti-Nazi League: Fighting the Nazi Threat Today: Nazis in Britain
		British Nazis made some attempts to reorganise in the 1940s and 1950s, but economic conditions did not favour them, and they met determined opponents such as the ‘43 Group’, which was set up by Jewish ex-servicemen after the war.
		Nazis were selling newspapers and intimidating people on the streets and the National Front was beginning to attract votes in elections.
		In the 1936 Battle of Cable Street the police allowed the fascists to march whilst arresting and attacking the anti-fascists.
	www.anl.org.uk /02-nazis_in_britain.htm (804 words)

	The Jewish community and the port - Port communities - Port Cities
		On 4 October 1936, the Fascists attempted to gather in several places, including Aldgate, on the boundary of the City and the East End, Cable Street and Leman Street.
		Cable Street was near the southern limit of the Jewish East End, and was also close to the London and St Katharine Docks.
		The 'Battle of Cable Street' certainly did not mean an end to anti-semitism in East London.
	www.portcities.org.uk /london/server/show/ConNarrative.134/chapterId/2738/The-Jewish-community-and-the-port.html (689 words)

	Schnews Issue 93 - 4 Oct 1996 - Reclaim The Furure - direct action in Liverpool - Liverpool Dockers...
		Ten flew a red fl and green flag from the top of the docks offices all day and, icing on the cake, the docks offices in town were occupied by protesters.
		THE BATTLE OF 4th October marks the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, a commemoration of the thousands of people who used direct action to stop a mass fascist demonstration in the East End.
		The next battle the dedicated party and housing collective face is a threat to Long Meadow Community Farm, which has been verbally sold to persons unknown.., despite them putting In an offer for the property.
	www.schnews.org.uk /archive/news93.htm (2384 words)

	Ted_Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		On the journey, he changed his name to Ted Grant, and stopped over in France to meet Trotsky's son, Leon Sedov.
		Once in Britain, he joined the Marxist Group, which at the time was working in the Independent Labour Party and took part in the Battle of Cable Street against fascists.
		But when Trotsky suggested the group should turn to working in the Labour Party, and their leadership disagreed, Grant was one of a small group who split to form the Bolshevik-Leninist Group, which soon became known as the Militant Group.
	www.usedaudiparts.com /search.php?title=Ted_Grant (617 words)

	BBC - GCSE Bitesize - SOS Teacher History international relations 1919-1945 The Battle of Cable Street 1936
		This answer is posted on behalf of Di The actual battle really only had short-term causes.
		Their way was blocked in Cable Street by members of the communist party and local workers.
		If you need to know the exact details of the march and battle, there are some good websites so it’s worth doing a search but do be careful what you use.
	www.bbc.co.uk /schools/gcsebitesize/sosteacher/history/41261.shtml (278 words)

	This Rough Game: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in European History
		The book examines key issues in the history of the left-right conflict, including the condition of Weimar Germany, the character of British fascism, the Battle of Cable Street, and the early life of Adolf Hitler.
		Equally importantly, the author considers the work of inter-war anti-fascists, men like Albert Einstein, the members of the International Brigade who went off to fight against fascists in the Spanish Civil War, and the wide range of anti-fascist artists whose ‘degenerate art’ was later banned by the Nazis.
		However, chapters that look at the Spanish Civil War, and to a lesser extent the Battle of Cable Street, do denigrate the activities of the Communist parties.
	www.dkrenton.co.uk /books/rough.html (1070 words)

	East End history, London history, End End of London, Tower Hamlets, Rosemary Taylor, Whitechapel, Wickham's Department ...
		But getting out and walking around our streets is better than a trip to any museum.
		Within yards you will pass the St George’s Town Hall mural depicting the Battle of Cable Street, when local people routed the Blackshirts; then the former home of Dr Hannah Billig, the ‘Angel of Cable Street’.
		This was also the site of the Sidney Street Siege and was a stamping ground for anarchists and bodysnatchers.
	www.eastlondonhistory.com /walks.htm (1039 words)

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