Ghosts of Cable street - The men they couldn't hang

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  • @andynicholas1728
    @andynicholas1728 Рік тому +28

    Simply one of the very best songs EVER written. AWESOME.

  • @Felix-yl5fk
    @Felix-yl5fk Рік тому +31

    My mother used to sing this to me before I went to sleep along with the song ‘colours’ by the men they couldn’t hang as well

  • @danniantagonist
    @danniantagonist 2 роки тому +46

    My Jewish grandparents were living and working in the east end of London at that time.
    Sadly I never knew about this history to ask them about it whilst they were still alive. We need to keep this history alive for future generations, and continue to fight the fascists!
    I lived on Cable Street as a student and there's a fantastic mural to commemorate this victory of the people over the fascists.
    We must never forget who the police protected, and continue to celebrate and commemorate this victory over oppressors, whoever they might be....

    • @markclitheroe900
      @markclitheroe900 11 місяців тому +1

      The area now hardly has any White Brits living there at all.
      It was another stab in the back for British people wanting to keep their country for their own ( In the same way that Jews do with Israel ).

    • @danniantagonist
      @danniantagonist 11 місяців тому +10

      @@markclitheroe900 hi Mark, I see the point you are making, but not all Jewish people believe in the Jewish state, and many acknowledge that we are Europeans and have no place in the middle east. It's been a long while since I lived there, but colourful, multicultural Bethnal Green holds great memories for me. We owe a great debt of gratitude to many who have made the UK their home. The insular nationalistic rhetoric is inaccurate, as we as a bit sad. Embrace and be proud of our multiculturalism, we are all better off as a result. 💖💖

  • @antoniodias4718
    @antoniodias4718 3 роки тому +24

    Against fascism, racism, and all dictators!!! RIP Cush!!

  • @andygrimshaw7464
    @andygrimshaw7464 3 роки тому +40

    "They shall not pass" RIP Cush

  • @Unpaidintern007
    @Unpaidintern007 5 років тому +100

    Just fell out of my chair with nostalgia for a period I did not live. Destroy fascism.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +7

      Top lad

    • @dannythomson5239
      @dannythomson5239 4 роки тому +1

      @modern studies
      these people have no idea the jewish business owners and others paid a small fortune to import gangsters and known hard men from places like Glasgow to fight for the communists at cable street.

    • @dannythomson5239
      @dannythomson5239 4 роки тому +3

      @modern studies
      most are too busy watching football and other silly distractions from the real problems landing on our shores daily.
      these same people think "hate speech/crime" laws are a modern thing with no idea they originate from communist Russia and are a tool to silence dissent and criminalise right thinking people.

    • @astrosasha
      @astrosasha 4 роки тому +16

      @@dannythomson5239 Can you give a source for that fascist bullshit you just pulled out of your ass?

    • @davebrosnan9959
      @davebrosnan9959 4 роки тому +3

      Well said mate.

  • @thechekist2044
    @thechekist2044 4 роки тому +99

    The time the working class found out that Fascism should not he debated, but should be crushed!

    • @welshexile1963
      @welshexile1963 3 роки тому +10

      Spot on ✊

    • @DioBrando-mr5xs
      @DioBrando-mr5xs 3 роки тому +2

      Bro all you fought were police officers, they came back and held the rally the next day.

    • @thecoldcutcombowithtomato8926
      @thecoldcutcombowithtomato8926 3 роки тому +21

      @@DioBrando-mr5xs as if fighting fascist sympathizing police officers is not also a major W

    • @DioBrando-mr5xs
      @DioBrando-mr5xs 3 роки тому

      @@thecoldcutcombowithtomato8926 It's not, no. You guys did nothing.

    • @lan_daddyttv4710
      @lan_daddyttv4710 3 роки тому +14

      @@DioBrando-mr5xs why did the blackshirts never gain traction then?

  • @franl155
    @franl155 3 роки тому +10

    I found this in a comment on a documentary on the Battle of Cable Street. Thank you. It moved me.

  • @markmctaffish
    @markmctaffish 3 роки тому +24

    RIP Stefan Cush

  • @arguably8390
    @arguably8390 4 роки тому +37

    We remember Mosley
    And how Cable Street folk fought him!

  • @Rosa-xg8tb
    @Rosa-xg8tb 4 роки тому +48

    DOWN WITH FASCISTS!
    Solidarity of the people will always win, remember that!

    • @union310
      @union310 3 роки тому +4

      Liberalism has been the ruination of the world remember that!

    • @cumboy2596
      @cumboy2596 2 роки тому +3

      @@brianmiles5237 thatcher ruined the North you lobotomite

  • @jaford2
    @jaford2 3 роки тому +19

    Amazing to think that shortly before having to come together as an Empire to stave off the global threat of Nazism, we had our own fascists to deal with in our very own capital! Eternal thanks to the brave united folk of the East End who fought both the police and Mosely's blackshirts - and to The Men They Couldn't Hang who reawakened this episode through their powerful and evocative music! RIP Cush, you legend....

  • @jackiejames5416
    @jackiejames5416 3 роки тому +12

    We shall miss Cush whose funeral was today. Brought Llandeilo to life x

  • @jackmeredith9289
    @jackmeredith9289 2 роки тому +39

    It's so upsetting to see, in contrast to the solidarity of the working class and anti-fascists then, how so many working class people have sided with the BNP, UKIP, Reform, Reclaim and Britain First.
    Always stand up to fascism, solidarity!

    • @JohnnyPaton
      @JohnnyPaton 2 роки тому +5

      Precisely. This was shown through Brexit which was acheived mainly by appealing to the latent racism prevalent within the working class. Classic divide and conquer tactics. Now we have a sharply divided country instead of the working class together against the powers that be they vote Tory in areas devastated by their policies.

  • @simonirvine2174
    @simonirvine2174 3 роки тому +10

    RIP Cush :(

  • @teamblitz1990
    @teamblitz1990 2 роки тому +31

    A true protest song sang with passion and conviction. With the rise of the right it's up to all of use to see that fascism and racist bigotry never get a foothold in the uk.

  • @martinfeatherstone3508
    @martinfeatherstone3508 5 років тому +26

    Great stuff, nice bit of history 👍.

  • @AnitaNiniel
    @AnitaNiniel 3 роки тому +24

    The police was sent to escort the BUF because, deeply inside, the British establishment identify with them. And that is why they resolved to stay neutral while Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy helped Franco to rip apart Spain. Giving the Nazis the training and cockiness to invade Poland.

  • @antoinehamria1481
    @antoinehamria1481 3 роки тому +12

    No pasaran

  • @AbandonEarth911
    @AbandonEarth911 2 роки тому +12

    Workers of all lands unite.

    • @nigelbevan8449
      @nigelbevan8449 Рік тому +2

      Unfortunately, that will NEVER HAPPEN... Too many people devided in their own opinions in there own little bubble...

  • @lightanddreamsphotography7140
    @lightanddreamsphotography7140 Рік тому +7

    Teach this in every school! Remind everyone that the Daily Mail and others supported the fascists

  • @ComradeHellas
    @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +57

    Bash the Fash!

    • @AvengedKittyLP
      @AvengedKittyLP 4 роки тому +5

      Sorry to burst your bubble but I don't think you could even knock me down on my feet. The only thing you are bashing is your Boyfriend you Neo-Marxist.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +17

      @@AvengedKittyLP Judging from your profile you must be underage, so yeah you don't stand a chance you little fascist zoomer. Why don't you get your friend and try another 1936 march, I want to see some action already!

    • @AvengedKittyLP
      @AvengedKittyLP 4 роки тому +2

      @@ComradeHellas So using a 2014 picture that I can not be bothered to change? Do you think that was such a good attack? I know you Soviets lack production and equipment but I expected a little more firepower.
      Also if you want to talk. I am 20 years old, 186 cm, muscular with some fat (in the good areas). Ex Footballer, tennis player and a ex-fighter in boxing.
      GL though :)
      Also Marx hated Gays, Blacks and Jews so I mean Marx would march with Hitler.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +17

      @@AvengedKittyLP You are so random. You totally confused me here. Anyway Marx was against any ethnic or religious discrimination, he viewed nations are backwards, as for sexuality he never wrote anything on that, so you are wrong. And anyway why are you littering this post with your nonsense, this is about 1936 Cable street march and the anti-fascist victory of the worker unions who beat the shit out of Mosley's blackshirts.

    • @Eastcyning
      @Eastcyning 4 роки тому +8

      @@AvengedKittyLP You won't be squaring up with fists if you try waving a fascist rag about in the street. Any hard case can get dropped with a pipe. Settle down.

  • @alastairbrewster4274
    @alastairbrewster4274 2 роки тому +62

    If only the English ppl of today had the same conviction to fight the evil Tories , maybe we wouldn’t be facing a cost of living crisis like none other.

    • @virusus441
      @virusus441 Рік тому

      @Some Guy Fkn Idjit

    • @nickmail7604
      @nickmail7604 Рік тому +3

      Ahh well you see if you bother to learn about this you will discover the the people stood with Mosley were the English, the true cockneys and those opposing them were the hated immigrants white, but Irish and Eastern European Jews, they hated them because they would work for next to nothing thus driving down a working man's ability to earn a wage to support his family. The true cockneys were forced out the east end by the Irish and Eastern european Jewish immigrants. It all goes full circle though as the decendants of the Irish and Eastern European immigrants have in turn been forced out of the east end by Bangladeshi and Muslim immigrants.

    • @alastairbrewster4274
      @alastairbrewster4274 Рік тому +3

      @@nickmail7604 do you like Mosley ?

    • @nickmail7604
      @nickmail7604 Рік тому +3

      @@alastairbrewster4274 I never met him, did you?

    • @nickmail7604
      @nickmail7604 Рік тому +2

      I hate to make an assumption about a chap unless I know him, Rishi Sunak and his wife come across as nice people for example but in reality they would rather pay tax in to India than to the country they live in, bad form. Kier Starmer helped to get Boris Johnsonn the sack over party gate but then shit himself when he got caught and then it was all differant. I have seen several interviews Mosley made in his later years and one thing that did shine out like a beacon was that he was not an idiot, far from it.

  • @user-fi7ju4nj9b
    @user-fi7ju4nj9b 4 роки тому +53

    My grandpa was Antifa.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 3 роки тому

      @@brianmiles5237 Yes, do you think abolishing the police is a new idea? lol.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 3 роки тому

      @@brianmiles5237 Well that's actually funny isn't it. And no the blackshirts got a lot of their own kin beat as well.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 3 роки тому +1

      @@brianmiles5237 For a Bristol guy you see to use similar vocabulary with Trump fans.

    • @mrthewubbie
      @mrthewubbie 2 роки тому

      So your grandpa was a fascist? Nice.

    • @Spireites72
      @Spireites72 2 роки тому

      so he was a communist thug then!

  • @helenscrace2169
    @helenscrace2169 3 місяці тому +2

    Blackshirts still here and on the streets - remember the Ghosts of Cable Street and stop them!

  • @williamlewis7023
    @williamlewis7023 2 роки тому +2

    This songs hits differently now

  • @Heston68
    @Heston68 4 роки тому +11

    What a terrific song.

  • @jessicamorgan3073
    @jessicamorgan3073 2 місяці тому +1

    88 years
    ¡No pasarán!

  • @dandixon8080
    @dandixon8080 4 роки тому +13

    If they world carries on the way it's going this will happen again.

    • @Bonzai0311
      @Bonzai0311 3 роки тому +3

      It's been happening here in the States for 4 years.

  • @MsAudities
    @MsAudities 4 роки тому +8

    This is amazing. Thank you

  • @davideldred.campingwilder6481
    @davideldred.campingwilder6481 3 роки тому +6

    The only song that came even within a mile of this was Sunday Bloody Sunday...RIP Cush. You taught me, with your band, the Politics of resistance...

  • @richemmott5071
    @richemmott5071 3 роки тому +2

    Absolute class that bruv xxx

  • @KennBurch
    @KennBurch 6 місяців тому

    Thanks for posting that!

  • @SlEasyTarget
    @SlEasyTarget 3 місяці тому +2

    It's scary that 88 years later people are still having to get out on the streets to stop bigotry and fascism.
    But it's also hopeful that despite all their efforts, all their newspapers and twits, they still failed.

  • @robertbrennan2268
    @robertbrennan2268 Рік тому +3

    No passaran! This year, 1936, was the year of the Jarrow Crusade.a march of the unemployed ship yard workers for 300 miles from Jarrow to Westminster. Here was living solidarity of Northern and London workers against the fascist danger. It also involved left liberals. Many of these workers had relatives from shipyards, collieries, docks, and Jewish communities serving together in the International Brigade, or with the POUM (see George Orwell, "Homage to Catalonia", for the POUM). The Indepdendent Labour Party was also represented in Spain - mostly in POUM. Clement Attlee was there. The "popular front" held. By 1939 Stalin had openly betrayed it with his Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-aggression Pact. But the purges were started in 1937. Solidarity remains important still, as does a shared vision of a socialised Britain accross the Left spectrum.

  • @BORDERSALAN
    @BORDERSALAN Місяць тому

    Nice video.havent heard this in years.thanks. 😜

  • @kittyodonoghue9896
    @kittyodonoghue9896 4 роки тому +3

    Brilliant!

  • @nlewin5072
    @nlewin5072 3 місяці тому

    August 2024. The Ghosts of Cable Street stand up again.

  • @autismobinch135
    @autismobinch135 6 років тому +14

    Great song

  • @themarra3293
    @themarra3293 Рік тому

    2:04 for Eric Cantona's evil time travelling twin

  • @johnnagle7702
    @johnnagle7702 23 години тому

    Most people like simple answers to complicated questions.They have no idea what fascism is

  • @pauleaton6455
    @pauleaton6455 4 роки тому +9

    Wonder how many of those fascists marching in the video ended up fighting in the war. Gotta love the irony.

    • @DioBrando-mr5xs
      @DioBrando-mr5xs 3 роки тому +2

      The irony that they were loyal to their nation?

    • @pauleaton6455
      @pauleaton6455 3 роки тому +7

      @@DioBrando-mr5xs no, that they would have quite happily sided with the enemy for sharing their views. Mosley and many of his followers openly rooted for hitler. The irony being they possibly went off to fight against Hitler.

    • @DioBrando-mr5xs
      @DioBrando-mr5xs 3 роки тому +1

      @@pauleaton6455 Thomson campaigned against the Nordic League and Nazis.

    • @pauleaton6455
      @pauleaton6455 3 роки тому +3

      @@DioBrando-mr5xs sorry I've mis- communicated that, I was referring to those who marched with mosley, the black shirts, not those who marched against him. I wasn't very clear on that my apologies.

    • @DioBrando-mr5xs
      @DioBrando-mr5xs 3 роки тому

      @@pauleaton6455 Thomson was the Gentile of BUF.

  • @1525ism
    @1525ism 2 місяці тому

    Love this. Just been to see Cable street the musical, found out mt aunty was there at cable street. So it was very powerful for me. Also very powerful in todays climate of the rise of the far right.

  • @SistorCarrera
    @SistorCarrera 3 місяці тому +1

    as a Jew girl i thank you so terrifying

  • @TigraWilderrrrrr
    @TigraWilderrrrrr 2 роки тому +5

    In the terrible years of the Second World War, Britain fought fascism, and now it is fighting too. Thank you for supporting Ukraine!

  • @dannymcmenemy5151
    @dannymcmenemy5151 3 роки тому +15

    1930,s Antifa heroes

  • @Dr_Klops
    @Dr_Klops 2 роки тому +1

    How much is this attitude needed today? Praise BoJo...

  • @andrewwillan3372
    @andrewwillan3372 Місяць тому

    The root cause of all this was mass unemployment . The Fascists offered an easier answer to solving this. Listen to David Frost's interview with Mosley in the 1960s.

  • @neilchristie6387
    @neilchristie6387 3 місяці тому +1

    Europe is the homeland of the European peoples! And by God, we'll have our home again!

  • @treeguyfly
    @treeguyfly 4 роки тому +9

    With courage we shall beat those red hats down

    • @Beelzebubbbbles
      @Beelzebubbbbles 3 роки тому +10

      You'll not find much courage among the blackshirt bullies.

    • @Beelzebubbbbles
      @Beelzebubbbbles 3 роки тому +10

      @@brianmiles5237 Same bullies, same cowardice. Different century, same shit.
      No Pasaran!

    • @Beelzebubbbbles
      @Beelzebubbbbles 3 роки тому +5

      @@brianmiles5237 Indeed, depending on where you are the uniform seems to vary from the camo of the Gravy Seals to the Fred Perry worn by the Tiki Torche brigade.
      I'm also fairly sure you know that we still refer to Nazis, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists in general as blackshirts.
      The uniforms might change, but the race hatred and cowardice still remains.
      Not sure where you're getting the hardman image from, I've said nothing in the least bit provocative or threatening.

    • @Beelzebubbbbles
      @Beelzebubbbbles 3 роки тому +2

      @@brianmiles5237 Not having seen any of those supposed replies that got deleted, I have no idea. That said, I've never seen a link in a youtube thread before, so it could possibly be that you can't post links in youtube threads.
      You seem a little paranoid, spanky, and delusional. Who is this Thomas chap you think is censoring you? You also seem to be a little confused about the historical roots of the word 'blackshirts'. Just because anti fascists demonstrating against institutional racism might be clad in black clothing, as one does when trying to keep as anonymous as possible in a world of mass surveillance, doesn't equate with the fascists they oppose.
      Still, it's honest for you to come out and identify as a fascist, or a racist, or a white supremacist. I'm not entirely sure where you see yourself exactly. I'm sure you'll state your position, eventually.

  • @fernbracken
    @fernbracken Рік тому +1

    BATTLE OF CABLE ST
    I was there a a small child and most of what you read on here is not true.
    Grand dad had small sweet /tobacconist shop, it was robbed several times during the wartime blackouts, many shops and homes were robbed and often burnt out and the excuse was given " a stray German bomb" Londons Petticoat lane on a sunday would see whole troups of men with suitcases on the pave ment selling goods stolen in these night time raids,
    my uncle John would sometimes shout out POLICE POLICE and it was hilarious to see them all pick up their suitcases and run like hell, their skull caps falling behind them.
    British men were away fighting, and people survived on food coupons
    Churchill's minister of supply Herbert Morrisom ( peter mandelsons grand father ) saw to it that
    certain people got extra and these men were called " spivs" and they would sell off at high prices,
    my auntie dolly had 7 children and she would have to buy extra food from the spivs
    many women got into debt and the spivs would force them into prostitution to pay off what they owed, those women who refused has their faces slashed, the men were called Razor gangs.
    The loan sharks were busy and at the end of the war many service men came home to find the local loan shark now owned his home.
    Churchill's Black N Tans in Ireland were brutal and this meant many irish men joined Hitlers army
    but a lot came over toward the end of the war to work clearing building sites etc
    and a lot of these irish men , god bless them, joined Oswald Mosely and stood guard over many shops and homes through the night time black outs.
    These irish men saved many families as a small child one passed me an orange, i had never seen an orange and thought it wasa ball to play with.
    Loking back, Thankyou god for Oswald Mosely.

    • @roguetrooper71
      @roguetrooper71 Рік тому +1

      I smell bullshit.

    • @peadarruane6582
      @peadarruane6582 Рік тому +2

      ⁠@@roguetrooper71funny how these supposed Irish were off fighting in hitlers army but were in England at the end of the war, and joined Moseley despite the fact that he had been interned in 1940 and the BUF banned. Total bullshit

  • @markharris9245
    @markharris9245 2 роки тому +1

    Different times then, and a brilliant song. Shame that the far left are crazy these days

  • @nickmail7604
    @nickmail7604 3 роки тому +4

    Like it or lump it, those whose stood with Mosley were English, those that stood against them were jewish and irish immigrants. No surrender.

    • @mjh5437
      @mjh5437 Рік тому

      Jews hate blacks more than just about anyone lol

    • @mirfjc
      @mirfjc 2 місяці тому

      Bullsh!t Most were what you would consider ethnic "English" and English in it's real sense also includes a lot of Jews 🤦. Crazy how anglophobia and petty nationalism tries to even rob us of even our own history. You can even google the composition and leadership. Leftwing, working class English and the working class struggle is just as English as anything else. And has radically transformed and improved England.

    • @johnnagle7702
      @johnnagle7702 23 години тому

      Moseley was for a united Ireland?

    • @nickmail7604
      @nickmail7604 23 години тому

      @johnnagle7702 so what?

    • @johnnagle7702
      @johnnagle7702 22 години тому

      @@nickmail7604 you would think the Irish community would have backed him for having that pledge

  • @mauriceludmer2629
    @mauriceludmer2629 2 роки тому +4

    My grandad was at cable street ,a proud blackshirt.He attended one of the four union meetings that went ahead that day 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

  • @nicktombs1876
    @nicktombs1876 5 років тому +8

    You try and find this many white people in the east end now.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +27

      Irrelevant, east end was always multi-ethnical.

    • @MichaelJ44
      @MichaelJ44 4 роки тому +3

      Comrade Hellas
      Okay. What about London? It’s predicted that White British will be a minority by 2070. Swedes will be a minority by 2065. And white Americans will be a minority by 2040. White British are already a minority In Birmingham, London, Slough, Bradford, Brentford and Manchester. But sure. Go ahead and tell me it’s all a conspiracy. Just remember, your grandchildren will most likely be a minority.

    • @AvengedKittyLP
      @AvengedKittyLP 4 роки тому

      @@ComradeHellas If Marx knew the world would happen like this, he would be so upset and angry.

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +2

      @@AvengedKittyLP Why would he?

    • @ComradeHellas
      @ComradeHellas 4 роки тому +12

      @@MichaelJ44 I had written a reply but somehow it disappeared so I have to write another one, here:
      The whites in the US will be a plurality not a minority in few years, which is a good thing. London and all big cities are economic centers that attract foreign migrants and businessmen so they might turn from majority white to plurality white in the short future. Yet about 90% of the UK are white British, you are clearly panic mongering at this point and showing your blatant racism and xenophobia.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demography_of_the_United_Kingdom#Ethnicity

  • @oswaldmosley4315
    @oswaldmosley4315 3 роки тому +1

    We fight fascism using fascism

    • @jezoye
      @jezoye 3 роки тому +7

      Ironic that you don't know what 'fascism' means, considering your name 🤦‍♂️

  • @stevensmith96
    @stevensmith96 4 роки тому +1

    not laughing now are ya,over run with asylams

    • @andypitchless
      @andypitchless 3 роки тому +6

      Twat.

    • @jedplatt552
      @jedplatt552 3 роки тому +10

      What's an asylam?

    • @timfenton5926
      @timfenton5926 3 роки тому +11

      "over run with asylams"
      Ha, ha, ha...sorry what?
      Are "asylams" those lions that come out of the wardrobe from Narnia?

    • @danielchaldi835
      @danielchaldi835 3 роки тому +5

      EDL twat.

    • @welshexile1963
      @welshexile1963 3 роки тому +5

      How thick are you lol

  • @Beelzebubbbbles
    @Beelzebubbbbles 3 роки тому +5

    RIP Stefan Kush.