Cable Street

October 5, 2026, 5:42 pm

Why I helped create a Cable Street commemoration event for Jews

Given that those organising a rally to mark 90 years since the Battle were so keen to block 'Zionists', I felt it was vital that Jews reclaim what was being appropriated from them

By Eve Kay

Jonathan Baz honours his mother, Cable Street veteran Hannah Guter, on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street. Photo Credit: Jonathan Baz

October 5, 2026, 11:18 am

Cable Street’s Jews should not be written out of history

From Brighton to the East End, this weekend showed why British Jews are once again refusing to keep their heads down

By Jonathan Baz

September 9, 2026, 11:23 am

AJEX calls on the Jewish community to march together at the 2026 Remembrance Parade

Solemn event at Cenotaph will also mark 90 years since the Battle of Cable Street

By Michelle Rosenberg

September 7, 2026, 5:06 pm

90 years after Cable Street we stand together again

Film maker Elliott Leigh, hundreds of family memories and a week of events will mark Britain’s most famous act of anti-fascist resistance is never forgotten

By Brigit Grant

Screenshot: BBC London Monday 26th January 2026

February 2, 2026, 5:06 pm

Jews omitted from BBC London report on historic Battle of Cable Street

Latest in slew of incidents from national broadcaster, with Holocaust Memorial Day and Kindertransport news stories also wiping Jews from the narrative

By Michelle Rosenberg

Tracy-Ann Oberman as Shylock Credit: Marc Brenner

January 14, 2025, 1:15 pm

OPINION: Alas, Merchant of Venice 1936 feels like 2025

Tracy-Ann Oberman’s revival offers a haunting reflection of today’s hatred, as the play’s warnings against prejudice resonate with unnerving urgency in the aftermath of 7 October

By Jonathan Baz

September 5, 2024, 3:35 pm

Cancer diagnosis gives Cable Street director Adam Lenson a focus

The second run of the award-nominated show opens this week

By Darren Richman

February 28, 2024, 4:08 pm

New show about The Battle of Cable Street deserves a much wider audience

Rap, rock and romance bring this story to life with a rousing score and star performances

By Louisa Walters

Alfred Huberman, picture: Michelle Huberman.

February 24, 2023, 11:44 am

Second World War RAF hero dies just short of 100th birthday

Alfred Huberman flew a remarkable 38 bomber missions for the RAF and was instrumental in securing the Bomber Command Association memorial in London's Green Park.

By Michelle Rosenberg

February 20, 2023, 5:50 pm

OPINION: A timely reminder of why we have a duty to care

This weekend offers a chance to remember and honour those who perished in conflict and to stand against antisemitism and hate, writes AJEX National Chairman, Dan Fox

By Dan Fox

Football pundit and former footballer Alex Scott, pictured at Sandys Row Synagogue - the oldest Ashkenazi synagogue in London - discovers her Jewish roots in the new series of Who Do You Think You Are?

October 26, 2021, 3:59 pm

Alex Scott ‘proud’ of her Cable Street relative in Who Do You Think You Are?

The 37-year-old presenter discovers how her Jewish great-grandfather Philip Gittleson was caught up in the events of 4 October 1936

By Francine Wolfisz

A demonstrator is taken away under arrest by police officers after a mounted baton charge, in East London, on Oct. 4, 1936, to stop fighting between anti-fascists and Sir Oswald Mosley's blackshirts.

October 21, 2021, 4:49 pm

OPINION: Protests that protected Jews at Cable Street are in danger. We must stand firm

Esther Raffell of human rights group René Cassin urges the community to speak out against the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill in advance of its Lords Committee Stage

By Esther Raffell

Police clash with anti-fascists at the Battle of Cable Stree

October 18, 2021, 11:32 am

After Cable Street, victory made way for violence

Just days after the historic stand against fascism came the Mile End Pogrom – the worst incidence of anti-Jewish violence witnessed during the interwar period. We revisit this event, 85 years on

Mural on the former St George's Town Hall in Tower Hamlets, London, which commemorates the Battle of Cable Street. ( © Historic England)

October 2, 2021, 7:31 pm

Jeremy Corbyn to speak at rally to mark 85th anniversary of Cable Street

Politicians and union leaders to join rally on Sunday to mark the day hundreds of thousands of people blocked a march by British fascists through the Jewish East End.

Colin Jordan (Rory Kinnear) and Vivien Epstein (Agnes O'Casey). Credit: Ben Blackall

September 30, 2021, 1:29 pm

Ridley Road star Eddie Marsan: ‘Young people need to know what antisemitism is’

BBC thriller written by Sarah Solemani and based on the book of the same name by British author Jo Bloom explores the rise of far right fascism in Britain in the 1960s

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