The Battle of Cable Street

The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist Oswold Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.|"THEY SHALL NOT PASS"

On 4 October 1936, anti-fascist crowds in East London, including Jewish and working-class communities, blocked Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists from marching through the area in what became known as the Battle of Cable Street. The confrontation halted the march and marked a significant public rejection of fascism in interwar Britain.