Mosley and his men were forced to retreat. On the marchers and the police attempting to protect them: rocks,īrickbats, shaken-up lemonade bottles, and the contents of chamber pots.
They rained down a fusillade of projectiles To stop the march, the protestersĮxploded homemade bombs, threw marbles at the feet of police horses, and Would eventually be known as the Battle of Cable Street: protestersįormed a blockade and beat back some three thousand Fascist Black ShirtsĪnd six thousand police officers. Union of Fascists from marching through their neighborhood. London’s East End gathered to prevent Oswald Mosley and his British
On October 4, 1936, tens of thousands of Zionists, Socialists, Irishĭockworkers, Communists, anarchists, and various outraged residents of
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