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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.
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box
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