The Battle of Cable Street:

Statement issued by the London District Committee of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

The London District Committee of the Communist Party issued the following statement:-

East End workers, supported by all London in united action, have barred the road to Mosley. Gentile, Jew, Catholic, Protestant, Labour and Communist, men, women and children, determined that Fascism shall not pass here, have given Mosley the most humiliating defeat ever suffered by any figure in English politics.

"East London workers have not only defeated Mosley, they have demonstrated that English people have no time for any sort of toleration of Fascism. East London has torn neutrality to shreds and given a lead to the whole labour and democratic movement to move into action against Fascism. Neutrality must go! Spanish democracy must be armed!
"The mass action of the working people has exposed the pro-Fascist attitude of the Home Office, which sought, to the last moment, to enable Mosley to march, and which is responsible for the baton charges and arrests made to-day.