90 Years on – The Battles of Cable Street and Holbeck Moor Leeds,

How the left betrayed the spirit of Cable Street

If the Battle of Cable Street happened today, the left would be marching with the fascists against the Jews.

Ninety years on, the lessons of the antifascist battle of Cable Street have never felt more relevant

With sectarian forces increasingly seeking to divide us, we must come together to fight for security, fairness and tolerance * Sarah Sackman is the Labour MP for Finchley and Golders Green “No pasarán!” – they shall not pass. It’s the rallying cry that strikes at the core of my identity. The same anti-fascist slogan heard…

Max Levitas, Veteran Of The Battle Of Cable St

Click here to book for THE GENTLE AUTHOR’S TOURS . Commemorating the ninetieth anniversary of the Battle of Cable St today Max Levitas (1915-2018)  by Phil Maxwell   Max Levitas became an East End hero when he was arrested in 1934, at the age of nineteen years old, for writing anti-fascist slogans on Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. “There were two of us, we did it at midnight and we wrote ‘All out on September 9th to fight Fascism,’ ‘Down w…

90 Years on – The Battles of Cable Street and Holbeck Moor Leeds,

I wrote last month about the ‘mistake’ made by the Unite trade union in organising a commemoration of the Battle of Cable Street without mentioning or involving any Jewish organisations, […]