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Demonstrators gather in Altab Ali Park before making their way to Cable Street in the East End of London, October 9, 2016
A BLUE plaque is to be mounted in Leeds to mark a confrontation in which 30,000 anti-fascists chased off 1,000 black-shirted fascists trying to rally in the city.
The Battle of Holbeck Moor in Leeds took place on September 27 1936, two weeks before the better-known Battle of Cable Street in London.
The blackshirts marched from the city to Holbeck which is south of Leeds city centre, led by Sir Oswald Mosley.
Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
