| | 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> | | 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 Antifa 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 in its 'opinion.' But on facts: Arab Hitler admiration as expressed, known at the time, including taking Mein Kampf as a 'guide,' etc., seems factual).</small> |