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Today is 88th anniversary of Battle of Cable Street. Where anti-fascist alliance of East London Jews, Irish, and workers unions beat crap out of fascist Sir Oswald Mosley and his 1000s of blackshirts. After seeing horrors of WW2, uk Jewish vets refused for it to happen again. It was a violent attack on Moselys "free speach", yet it squashed the rise of another Hitler.

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Ben Arc benarc@nostr.com 1 year ago

Great indie doc interviewing some of the jewish servicemen involved. I'm always so conflicted on this example of a good attack against "free speach".

unknown 1 year ago

Terry Pratchett’s “Night watch” is about it. Highly recommend it.

unknown 1 year ago

Unfortunately Israel is doing the same thing in Palestine with much much better weapons.

SPA (Super Phat Arrow) spa@bitcoiner.guide 1 year ago

> After seeing the horrors of WW2 This happened in 1936, three years before WW2 started.

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Ben Arc benarc@nostr.com 1 year ago

Gosh you're right! I always conflated with antifacists of post WW2, such as relays 3 group. That makes it more impressive, without the WW2 context later antifacists had

Leurico8 leurico8@plebchain.club 1 year ago

There is nonsuch thing as "free speech" in quotes, mate.

a source familiar with the matter 1 year ago

"after seeing the horrors of WW2, UK Jewish vets refused for it to happen again" in 1936