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Cable Street must inspire action today
by Frances O’Grady

As we reflect on the historic victory at Cable Street 84 years ago, we must be ready to mobilise against anti-semitism, racism and discrimination again.
On 4 October 1936, more than 100,000 East Enders took to the streets to prevent Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists marching through the area.
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