Where 50,000+ anti-fascist protestors blocked Oswald Moseley’s 1936 fascist march through East London.
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IIRC, this was the event where police horses tried to clear the protesters and a mass of children released their marbles beneath the hooves of the horses.
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Yeah. This isn’t the only time that marbles never have been used against police horses in the UK. I’m not sure if it was one of the first though.
Can’t really blame people with events like the Peterloo Massacre in our history.
Police protecting a fascist march, same as it ever was.
Something I find delightful is how Terry Pratchett worked this event into his novel Night Watch. Of course the Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May is inspired by many public revolts to oppressive rule, not the least of which is the June Rebellion in Paris in 1832. But it’s also no accident that some of the villains of the story work for the Cable Street Particulars, an enforcement arm of the fascist ruling Patrician.
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All the little angels rise up, rise up.
All the little angels rise up high!
GNU Sir Terry
How they do rise up