Comments on: Solidarity On The Streets

By: Marcia Howard

Marcia Howard — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:38:04 +0000

I can’t stand any form of racism or bigotry. Please let us all work on peace whatever the colour of your skin is, and whether its on the streets we all share, between your neighbours, or in the workplace.

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:03:29 +0000

What struck me most is how the exhibition connects Cable Street in 1936 with later East End activism, from the protests after Altab Ali’s murder in 1978 to the Daneford School demonstrations in the 1980s. Seeing those moments side by side makes the neighbourhood’s history of organised community action feel much more continuous.

By: Kate Bacon

Kate Bacon — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:56:53 +0000

Thank you for sharing these powerful images of ordinary local people standing up to fascism and racism in the East End.

By: Chris Harrington

Chris Harrington — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:47:16 +0000

Gentle Author, I would suggest a corruption in your description of some of the photographs. The Police do not normally ‘clash’ with any group/protesters. The group/protesters clash with the Police a subtle difference. The Police are always ‘piggy-in-the-middle’, whether it be between various groups/protesters or against the law/the state. Quite simply they are there to maintain the status quo/the peace as decided by our politicians in parliament. In this context, imagine for one moment if there were no laws, no police no controls at all. Demonstrations, protests by opposing groups would soon turn violent and possibly into riots, with many people injured and killed. Then you introduce the police to prevent this and all of a sudden it turns to your phrase, ‘the police clash with the protesters’.
In a previous life, I lived in Bromley-by-Bow and worked in the Commercial St. Spitalfields area.

By: Eve

Eve — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:05:57 +0000

“They shall not pass..” so proud of London’s East Enders’ history of anti-racism protest.
Great photos & a must see exhibition, thank you!

By: Greg t

Greg t — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 08:11:57 +0000

And today, on BBC raodio4, at “Question Time” the crooked fascist Tice will be speaking.
We are back to where we started from
QUOTE: “Within Reform UK, he’s the Trotsky to Nigel Farage’s Lenin. Also a property magnate, private equity guy, and fractional billionaire. Doesn’t believe in anthropogenic climate change, vehemently opposes renewable energy projects, wants to drill for oil and revive coal mining, Gaza genocide denialist … are you getting a clear picture yet?”

By: Corvin

Corvin — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:58:45 +0000

Especially after last October’s Stand Up to Racism counter-protest against UKIP, I hope Sunday remembers all of Cable Street’s history rather than retrofitting it to suit the politics of 2026.

Last October I found it rather dispiriting to see what ought to have been a straightforward stand against extremism submerged beneath Socialist Worker banners and Palestinian flags. There was also a fairly extraordinary visual irony in groups of men dressed head-to-toe in black invoking Cable Street while apparently oblivious to the historical photographs of Mosley’s Blackshirts.

More importantly, something that increasingly seems to get blurred out is that Cable Street was, at its heart, a defence of a heavily Jewish East End community against an explicitly antisemitic fascist movement. Jewish residents were central to it, joined by Irish dockers and many others.

So, in the spirit of all that diversity, inclusion and open-mindedness we hear so much about, I very much hope that Jewish Londoners and the specifically Jewish history of Cable Street are given rather more than a walk-on part this Sunday.

By: ANDY STROWMAN

ANDY STROWMAN — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 06:57:12 +0000

There isn’t a day at work or outside it that we don’t have to fight hope our rights .
Well done all those who have or will do it .
I had to on my life many times .

Andy