No Pasaran!

It's the 75th anniversary of the battle of Cable st this weekend;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cable_Street
There are a number of events planed;
http://www.battleofcablestreet.org.uk/anniversary.html
I rode in with The National Clarion 1894 cc on Friday to cheers, flag waving (in the colours of the international brigades), speeches (most inspirationally from Max who'd fought the coppers and Fascists in Cable St in 1936, one of only 3 surviving).
I have always been moved to tears by the Cable St rallying cry 'They Shall Not Pass', I did not know that it was taken from the slogan of the Republicans liberation of Madrid 'No Pasaran', which appears on the sleeves of the Clarion's jerseys and whose club colours changed in 1936 to those of the International Brigades (red, purple and yellow).
The Clarion riders had ridden from Edingburgh via Belfast and Dublin to commemorate the three fallen Clarion riders (Roy Watts, Ray Cox and another), who heard the call and went to fight Franco's forces in Spain, of Course many other Clarion riders went but these three did not return.
On this weekend in 1936, the Clarion cancelled the Sunday club runs and the membership congregated on the East End to join forces with the Jewish community, Local residents, Communists, Arnarchists and Trades Unionists to Deny Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts the right to march.
Crying as I write this.

interesting read, thanks digs

¡No pasarán!
/pedant

Will my keyboard do that TS?

Carlos Nuñez Viva la quinta brigada - YouTube

Bandiera Rossa by Pankrti - YouTube

*We do not ask you for union and the party

Are you honestly in the struggle with this

Against injustice and reaction.

We are by necessity, united by their hunger,

We bind the victims in the fight against the enemy,

Our songs of revolution!*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk69e1Vcmvg

Glad you could make it, Digger. I was working Friday. My partner, who wasn't, tried to find a way to get to Reading to meet them, but couldn't. Sounds very moving.

If you see a Clarion 1895 jersey on the road, shout 'Boots!' (the traditional greeting for Clarionites), as it will probably be me or my son.

This makes me proud of my home town too

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Would have liked to have witnessed this commemoration Digs.

Thanks for posting.

https://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=2071&pictureid=11778

^Friday Cable St, with the Comrades, operating the mayor like a meat puppet...

There was a letter in The Times yesterday from an academic who sought to argue that the Cable Street anti fascist demonstrations were an attempt to deprive the BUF of their civil rights and led to an increase in the membership of the BUF as well as added antisemitic sentiments.

Haha that picture is gold dust

There was a letter in The Times yesterday from an academic who sought to argue that the Cable Street anti fascist demonstrations were an attempt to deprive the BUF of their civil rights and led to an increase in the membership of the BUF as well as added antisemitic sentiments.

Right wing academics eh? They must be quite lonely...

That's the great Charles Jepson in the centre of the photo, who started the modern resurgence of the Clarion.

London Clarion 1895...

Club website

http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=2071&pictureid=11778

You look like some sort of syndicalist ninja gimp commissar.