In London in October, 1936, people of good will and courage stopped a Fascist parade

[Ken Burch]

in a Jewish neighborhood in London. Leftists, English, Scottish and Welsh trade unionists, and Irish dockers(longshoremen), among many others, joined the residents of Cable Street to stop the "Black Shirts", the British Union of Fascists led by former MP Oswald Mosley, from marching and violently attacking the neighborhood's inhabitants. Shortly afterwards, the BUF went into decline and collapse.

The event is known in Britain, to this day, as "The Battle of Cable Street".

What we saw in Chicago today was the American Battle of Cable Street.

[iemitsu]

1. I hope this is the beginning of the end of American fascism

but I fear it was really a tactic, sponsored by American fascists, to get the population back under control.

[Fairgo]

2. That's where we are at.

People are waking up around the world.

[HuckleB]

3. Recommended.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-farright-idUSTRE7931CA20111004

[Person 2713]

4. IN another country people watched their neighbors get rounded up to a train and

shook there heads thinking that's not right
and went inside for dinner
No one called them trouble makers or impolite

[COLGATE4]

5. In quite a few 'other countries'. Unfortunately. nt

[Scootaloo]

6. K&R. Antifascism is the only response to fascism

Polite tut-tutting does nothing.