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Blue Plaque in Leeds to mark Battle of Holbeck Moor
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.
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