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[Dave Goodfield]
MORE than 300 activists attended a celebration rally today to recognise and honour Leeds’ biggest mobilisation of anti-fascists in the 1930s.
On September 27 1936, 30,000 people gathered on Holbeck Moor in south Leeds to confront Sir Oswald Mosley and 1,000 “blackshirts” from the British Union of Fascists, and the fascists were forced out of Leeds.
The confrontation took place a week before the famed Battle of Cable Street in east London.
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
The annual commemoration of anti-fascist volunteers who fought fascism in Spain now includes a key contribution from Italian comrades
