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==Early genuine movement==
==Early genuine movement==
During the 1930-40s antifa was a genuine justice movement against [[Fascism]].
During the 1930-40s antifa was a genuine justice movement against [[Fascism]].<ref>Kurt Barling, [https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-15171772 Cable Street: 'Solidarity stopped Mosley's fascists'], '' BBC'', Oct 4, 2011.<blockquote><small>
Special correspondent, BBC London
Seventy-five years ago east London Jews and Irish labourers stood up to fascists who wanted to march through their streets.
So began the legend of The Battle of Cable Street.
After the Great War Europe faced the twin spectres of mass unemployment and economic depression.
The political response created tumult in democracies in Germany and France from which Britain was not immune, with ideological conflicts between supporters of communism and fascism.
The climate of 1930s British intolerance did not start at Cable Street. It had been brewing ever since Hitler's 1933 election in Germany.
Growing paranoia.
In London the Jewish community in Stepney quickly became a target.
Jews were blamed for the economic and political crisis despite the fact the vast majority of them lived in abject poverty in the East End.
Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) had demonstrated their intent with a huge turnout at a mass rally at Olympia in 1934.
The movement and the street methods of his Blackshirts often mirrored those of the Nazi Brownshirts in Hitler's Germany.
Bernard Kops was a young boy of 10 when Mosley and his supporters decided the best way of demonstrating their potency was to march through the heart of London's Jewish community in Cable Street on 4 October 1936.
He says for many of the older generation of Jews, like his parents, there was a growing sense of paranoia: "My mother said there were only two types of people in the world. Jews and Jew-haters.
"Of course, when Cable Street came along the Irish labourers and dockers came out and it was them that really made sure Mosley didn't get through.</small></blockquote></ref><ref>Daniel Penny, "An Intimate History of Antifa," ''The New Yorker'', August 22, 2017.<blockquote><small>
On October 4, 1936, tens of thousands of Zionists, Socialists, Irish dockworkers, Communists, anarchists, and various outraged residents of London’s East End gathered to prevent Oswald Mosley and his British Union of Fascists from marching through their neighborhood. This clash would eventually be known as the Battle of Cable Street: protesters formed a blockade and beat back some three thousand Fascist Black Shirts and six thousand police officers. To stop the march, the protesters exploded homemade bombs, threw marbles at the feet of police horses, and turned over a burning lorry. They rained down a fusillade of projectiles on the marchers and the police attempting to protect them: rocks, brickbats, shaken-up lemonade bottles, and the contents of chamber pots. Mosley and his men were forced to retreat.</small></blockquote></ref>
See related: [[Antifa: Mandatory Palestine in 1936]].<ref><small>(The group in Mandatory Palestine - very lefty, also tied to socialists and was critical against right wingers as a whole, criticized by some for being unfairly swept into it when not being fascist. But on factual Arab Hitler admiration as expressed, known at the time, including their taking Mein Kampf as a 'guide', seems factual).</small></ref>
See related: [[Antifa: Mandatory Palestine in 1936]].<ref><small>(The group in Mandatory Palestine - very lefty, also tied to socialists and was critical against right wingers as a whole, criticized by some for being unfairly swept into it when not being fascist. But on factual Arab Hitler admiration as expressed, known at the time, including their taking Mein Kampf as a 'guide', seems factual).</small></ref>