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HSN/Reel News Film/Discussion Night - Fighting Fascism in 2010

By glynharries
Created 09/06/2010 - 14:06
13/06/2010 - 19:00
13/06/2010 - 21:00

Films (all original) on or include:

- "Cable Street:70 years of fighting fascism" - interviews with veterans of when Oswald Mosely’s Black Shirts were prevented from marching through the East End in 1936..

- The 43 Group, a group of Jewish ex-servicemen who refused to tolerate the re-emergence of fascists on the streets of London in the 1940s, having just defeated them on the battlefields of World War Two. Hackney,Ridley Road, in particular - was a key battleground...

- the English Defence League: a look at this new “patriotic” grouping currently grabbing headlines in the UK, and some of its far-right bed-fellows...

Discussion will follow with active anti-fascists on combating the far right in Britain today.

Free/donation

**** the EDL are coming to Limehouse on June 20th so details of what is planned will be given and we can discuss what people can do ****

For more info, please see the HSN Facebook pages..
http://www.facebook.com/?tid=1344424535439&sk=messages#!/group.php?gid=107847266820



Source URL:
http://www.hackneytuc.org.uk/node/509