Hundreds of activists attend rally to recognise 1936 anti-fascist mobilisation
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.
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