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A political history of Britain in the places where it happened: parliament and palace, courts and counting houses, and the streets where people pushed back.
The wall that remembers the day the East End stopped Mosley's marchers.
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On 4 October 1936 Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists intended to march thousands of uniformed men through a district with a large Jewish population. The government would not ban it and sent some 7,000 police to clear the way. Instead tens of thousands of local people - Jewish, Irish, dockers, communists, trade unionists - filled the streets, built barricades out of whatever came to hand and fought the police until the march was called off. The Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms and gave police the power to reroute marches, followed within weeks. The mural on the side of the old town hall was painted between 1979 and 1983, and it is as crowded and chaotic as the day was.
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