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In reply to the discussion: Breaking: Antifa founders identified! [View all]DBoon
(24,366 posts)5. I thought these guys were the inspiration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street
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The Battle of Cable Street was a series of clashes that took place at several locations in the East End of London, most famously Cable Street, on Sunday 4 October 1936. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, sent to protect a march by the British Union of Fascists,[1] led by Oswald Mosley, and anti-fascist demonstrators, including local trade unionists, communists, British Jews, and socialist groups.[2][3][4] The anti-fascist counter-demonstration included both organised and unaffiliated participants.
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The anti-fascists celebrated the community's united response, in which East-Enders of all backgrounds including Irish Catholics, Jews, Orthodox Jews, dockers and Somali seamen successfully resisted Mosley and his followers.[36]
The event is frequently cited by modern Antifa movements as "the moment at which British fascism was decisively defeated".[3][37] The Fascists presented themselves as the law-abiding party who were denied free speech by a weak government and police force in the face of mob violence. Many of the arrested demonstrators reported harsh treatment at the hands of the police.[38]
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Great points. And as always the dispossessed, the struggling to survive, are sacrificed for power.
erronis
Thursday
#8
It's hard to understand who are the "good guys". Seems everything is agitprop or disinformation.
erronis
Thursday
#9
It's what they were, the maligners are the ones trying to tie current antifa to century old communist movements.
Blues Heron
Friday
#26
If they could rise from their graves, they'd take on the new Nazis, and win - again.
erronis
Thursday
#10
And if Jesus came back they'd crucify him as a swarthy woke hippy without a trial.
Ol Janx Spirit
Thursday
#17
FDR would be making this world a better place for all of us if he were with us now.
Clouds Passing
Friday
#24