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Battle of Holbeck Moor: don’t let them erase the communists
An attempt to give the church credit for the mobilisation of 30,000 anti-fascists in Leeds in 1936 is an insult to the communists and socialists who fought the fascists, writes SAM KIRK
THEY SHALL NOT PASS! Blue Plaque unveiling for Battle of Holbeck Moor on September 29 2024
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IT has long been recognised that Shakespeare’s play, The Merchant of Venice, has anti-semitic tropes and has been problematic in a world where this is abhorrent.
This new version is set in 1936 at a time when Oswald Mosley was trying to build The British Union of Fascists (BUF) along the same lines as Hitler and Mussolini.
By setting the play in these times, the role of Shylock is based on writer and actor Tracy-Ann Oberman’s grandmother who fought against Mosley at the Battle of Cable Steet.
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The mobilisation in 1936 of 30,000 anti-fascists to drive Sir Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts out of Leeds has been commemorated in the city, reports PETER LAZENBY
DAVID HORSLEY honours the black British communist who fought the fascists from Cable Street, to Spain, to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany