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David Rosenberg was the convenor of Cable Street 80 in 2016. He is the author of Battle for the East End (Five Leaves publications) and Rebel Footprints (Pluto Press).
On this day in 1943, the Bundist leader Szmul Zygielbojm committed suicide in London after learning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had been crushed – a final act of protest against the world’s indifference towards the mass murder of European Jews.
85 years ago today, the working class of London’s East End organised against Oswald Mosley’s race hatred – and delivered the greatest defeat in British fascism’s history.