@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialOn #ThisDayInHistory in 1937, #OswaldMosley held a #fascist rally in #Liverpool. Upon snapping a #NaziSalute, he was struck in the head by thrown stones and spent a week in hospital to recover. #Antifascist resistance to #ReformUK etc. (and to #MAGA) has a long and proud history.
@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialIn the #BattleOfCableStreet, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1936, about 200,000 #antifascists, #anarchists, #socialists, and #Jewish & #Irish workers in London's #EastEnd faced off against #OswaldMosley's #BritishUnionOfFascists and the #police, routing both & chasing off the #fascists.
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@mathiastck.bsky.socialorganisations such as #JeffreyHamm 's #BritishLeague of Ex-Servicemen and later #OswaldMosley 's new fascist party, the Union Movement. The activities of these #FascistGroups included antisemitic speeches in public places,
@mathiastck.bsky.socialThey did this when, upon returning to London, they encountered #BritishFascist organisations such as #JeffreyHamm 's #BritishLeague of Ex-Servicemen and later #OswaldMosley 's new fascist party, the Union Movement.
@richardibbo.bsky.social@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialThe #BattleOfHolbeckMoor was #ThisDayInHistory in 1936, when #antifascists & #communists challenged #OswaldMosley & his #Blackshirts in Leeds. Hearing the #fascist demagogue & 1000 of his terrorist thugs would rally, 30,000 #antifa showed up to shout them down and throw punches.
@richardibbo.bsky.social@richardibbo.bsky.socialBritish journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal #Newsnight #NigelFarage #ReformUK #OswaldMosley #Nazis
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@casemateipm.bsky.social"Oswald Mosley and A Short History of Fascism" is now available. Learn about the examination of Britain’s flirtation with fascism and the troubling allure of authoritarianism, both past and present.
@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialThe #BattleOfStockton on #ThisDayInHistory in 1933 was a fight between 100 members of #OswaldMosley's #BritishUnionOfFascists and 2,000 #antifascists armed with pick-axe handles, stones, bricks, and potatoes fitted with razor blades. Self-defence against #fascists is necessary.
@liamomaraiv.bsky.socialA speech by #OswaldMosley was drowned out by #antifascist protesters in London's #HydePark on #ThisDayInHistory in 1934. The press & #BBC had advertised the #fascist's speech but not the #antifa counter rally, so workers hung banners on buildings & trains, spoke in cinemas, etc.
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@nevereverdave.bsky.socialJustice mostly prevails in the longish run. #Nuremberg and the trial of the likes of #RatkoMladić hopefully underscores that. Accepting, likes of Lord #HawHaw [ #WilliamJoyce ] would likely be honorary president of #ReformUK alongside #OswaldMosley I'd hope the electorate could mayve prove me wrong.