Comments on: Max Levitas & The Battle of Cable St

By: Sonia Murray

Sonia Murray — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 15:38:33 +0000

Live long and prosper, Max! If people in Germany had taken a stand as you and others did, the fascists would not have been able to come to power, and WWII and the death camps would never have happened. God bless you for standing against evil!

By: Doreen Leighter

Doreen Leighter — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 14:54:06 +0000

My dad, David Leighter, passed away this year. He would have been 110 years old on Oct 13th . He was a proud participant in the Battle of Cable St , hurling ink pellets and rocks at Moseley’s blackshirts from rooftops and then joining all those in the street, dockers, Communists, his fellow East Jews who stood in unity against facism . I will be marching on Sunday in his memory.

By: janet green

janet green — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 12:12:11 +0000

That was interesting, not least because my Dad was there, worried (like most of the other East End Jewish community) about this Fascist party. Apparently he had my older sister on his shoulders, but got worried when things started flying through the air. He made a quick retreat back home to Stepney, deposited his daughter with my Mum and went back to Cable Street with his brothers. They were all boxers and ready for the fray, but I don’t think it came to that.

By: Jan Toms

Jan Toms — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 10:59:33 +0000

What an inspiring story. One feels humbled before someone with such integrity and commitment.

By: Jason Coles

Jason Coles — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:16:19 +0000

The new religious brownshirts that colonised Cable street and whitechapel share the same hatred of the Jews as Mosley and his rabble .

By: Maris

Maris — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:52:20 +0000

The newspaper cutting about Max’s arrest and fine for daubing the slogan on Nelson’s Column, talks about the ‘mass murder of Jews and gentiles’. Presumably the cutting is from 1934 but Hitler had only just come to power and the Final Solution took place during the Second World War, more than five years later, following the Wannsee Conference. Am I missing something?

By: John Barrett

John Barrett — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:29:18 +0000

Max did his best all his life-God bless him for that. John B. PS we must remember also his wife an important member of Team Max.

By: Joan

Joan — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 08:03:42 +0000

The anniversary of Cable St should not pass unremarkabled. Mosley and his tribe were a blight on the political landscape of the time. Thanks for the reminder and for celebrating the life of a man of his and our times

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:52:18 +0000

My uncle Bill was a lifelong communist, read the Morning Star and refused to fight in the war. He was involved in the battle of Cable Street too. He was a carpenter by trade but he was brilliant at any of the trades like plumbing, bricklaying, plastering and painting. He was always interesting to talk to. When I was a kid he told me about Cable Street. He was whacked by a copper with a truncheon although he wasn’t doing anything other than shouting. He was a pacifist and didn’t think it right to chuck bricks at people, even if they were fascists.

I salute the people who wouldn’t allow the fascists to win. They must never be forgotten.

By: ROBERT GREEN

ROBERT GREEN — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 07:41:32 +0000

Politics and religion, I often wonder to myself what the world would be like if such things had never been created ? ? What excuse would people think of next to justify hating each other ? ?