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Around 80 people gathered for a conference hosted by the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign in Sheffield last Saturday.

This October it is eighty years since working class people came together to stop Oswald Mosley's fascists marching along Cable Street in east London. Simon Shaw looks at the heroic actions of that day, their wider context and the traditions of organisation that made victory possible.

The march of Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists was halted on 4 October 1936 by a working class revolt in east London.

Golden Dawn fascists are facing opposition, writes Greek socialist and anti-fascist Giorgos Pittas

Lorry drivers, shopkeepers, farmers, police, dockers and right wing politicians are protested this week in Calais to demand the demolition of the “jungle” refugee camp.

Britain First Nazis invaded the Al Manar Mosque in Cardiff as part of building up to a meeting they are holding this Saturday.

Riders for the Deliveroo delivery company protested outside the company’s offices in central London last week. Strikes and protests by riders over attacks on pay forced bosses to make concessions this week.

Also: Unions slam payouts for post office bosses | Walkouts can win at London Met | Pride marches in Brighton and Leeds | Sussex hospital drivers vote to strike for liabilities | Nationwide gets shifty in Swindon | Cleaners' fight is over at 100 Wood Street | French state plans attack on ‘jungle’ | Protest in Brixton against arch-enemy council | Magistrates find against reverend’s tax protest

Anti-fascists humiliated Nazis from Britain First in Coventry last Saturday.

An anti-fascist protester has been jailed after a demonstration in Dover in January. Michelle Smith, a Unite union official, admitted violent disorder and was jailed for 12 months.

 

A violent assault was carried out against an Afghan taxi driver in a suspected racist attack in Rotherham last week.