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70th Anniversary of The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. It is the most symbolic and well-known act of anti-fascist resistance ever to take place. The Ghetto fighters have entered the annals of Jewish martyrdom, but the lesson of … Continue reading

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Remembering Stanley Forman

I read today in the Morning Star That Stanley Forman passed away. He really was a wonderful man. I have found an interview that I did with him in 1998 on the 100th anniversary of Paul Robeson’s birth which is … Continue reading

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The trial of Adolf Eichmann

Just came across video of the entire trial of Adolf Eichmann on YouTube put up by the Yad Vashem museum. It is an amazing resource and an insight into a key person involved in carrying out the Holocaust. The trial … Continue reading

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Chilean fascism – an interview with Ernesto Leal

In the mid 1990s I worked on an anti-fascist pamphlet on trade unions that is now long out of print. One of the sections was on the fascist coup in Chile for which I interviewed Ernesto Leal, a Chilean exile … Continue reading

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Video of Cable Street 75 March and Rally

Video of the Cable Street 75 march and rally shot by RMT.

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Battle of Cable Street 75 Anniversary

It was a long hot day yesterday, but one which was a great success. The Cable Street 75 march had well over 1000 people on it. It was great to see so many different organisations with their banners and to … Continue reading

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Cable Street 75 – HOPE not hate

Lots of Cable Street 75 anniversary related stuff just gone up on the HOPE not hate website The Battle of Cable Street It is 75 years since the East End of London’s Jewish community and its allies blocked the streets … Continue reading

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They Did not Pass

Article in this weekend’s edition of the Morning Star http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/news/content/view/full/110179 They did not pass Friday 30 September 2011 by Steve Silver When Sir Oswald Mosley’s plan to march his uniformed fascists through the East End of London on Sunday October … Continue reading

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Everything Happens in Cable Street

Everything Happens in Cable Street is the title of a new book by Roger Mills that has just been published by Five Leaves Publications. It is one of five new books that they have put out to commemorate the 75th … Continue reading

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Cable Street 75 Countdown – Battle for the East End

On Wednesday evening we held the last organising meeting of Cable Street 75 before the march and rally on 2 October. It has been an interesting journey so far and a really great coalition has been formed in the process, one … Continue reading

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