UP TO 5,000 workers, local families and youth gathered outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall on the Whitechapel Road in east London for the march to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street yesterday.
In the famous Battle of Sunday 4th October 1936 tens of thousands of workers and youth came under brutal police attack after they had driven Sir Oswald Mosley and his blackshirted fascist bands off the streets of Bethnal Green, East London.
The march set off at 1.30pm heading down Cable Street to St George’s Gardens for a rally.
There were lots of red flags and banners from trade unions, also a banner from the Residents of Garvaghy Road, from Drumcree, and the Jewish Bloc for Palestine, followed by a big brass band from the RMT union bringing up the rear.
Vaso, who was there with her teenage daughter, told News Line: ‘We stand with people who suffer, we stand against fascism always.
‘We’re from Greece and we came to Britain in 2015. The Greek people stand with Palestine. They are so much against what the Greek government is doing. It is arming Israel.’
Paul Schmerkin, from London said: ‘I’m here today because I’m anti-fascist and I’m a Jew. My relatives were here in 1936. It’s part of my tradition.
‘As a Jew I fight fascism as hard as I can. Anyone who condones what the Israelis are doing are on the side of the Nazis.
‘Israel is an abomination. They’re a racist society, taking land from the Palestinians whose land it was in the beginning.
‘My grandfather was in the First World War in Galipoli. He said it was the worst thing he had ever seen. The settlers in Palestine are terrorist thugs. Zionism is a cult.’
