Editing Battle of Cable Street (section)

==Background==
The [[British Union of Fascists]] (BUF) had advertised a march to take place on Sunday 4 October 1936, the fourth anniversary of their organisation. Thousands of BUF followers, dressed in their Blackshirt uniform, intended to march through the heart of the East End, an area that then had a large [[British Jews|Jewish]] population.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Battle of Cable Street: 80 years on |url=http://www.cablestreet.uk/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180527221708/http://www.cablestreet.uk/ |archive-date=27 May 2018 |year=2016|website=cablestreet.uk}}</ref>

The BUF planned to march from [[Tower Hill]] and divide into four columns, each heading for one of four open-air public meetings where Mosley and other speakers would address gatherings of BUF supporters. The meetings were to be at Limehouse, Bow, Bethnal Green and Hoxton.<ref name=bufleaflet>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/cable-street75/|title=Cable Street|date=8 January 2011 |publisher=History Workshop|first=Andrew|last=Whitehead}} Website shows the original BUF leaflet with exact locations and times.</ref>

The Jewish People's Council organised a petition calling for the march to be banned, which gathered the signatures of 100,000 East Londoners, including the Mayors of the five East London Boroughs ([[Metropolitan Borough of Hackney|Hackney]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Shoreditch|Shoreditch]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Stepney|Stepney]], [[Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green|Bethnal Green]] and [[Metropolitan Borough of Poplar|Poplar]])<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Jewish Chronicle|date=9 October 1936|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/Cable_Street.htm|title=Sir Oswald Mosley}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Independent Labour Party leaflet|year=1936|url= http://www.cablestreet.uk/images/They-Did-Not-Pass-spread-1.jpg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180902162842/http://www.cablestreet.uk/images/They-Did-Not-Pass-spread-1.jpg|archive-date=2 September 2018}}</ref> in two days.<ref name=game/> Home Secretary [[John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon|John Simon]] denied the request to outlaw the march.<ref>{{cite book |last=Piratin |first=Phil |title=Our Flag Stays Red |date=2006 |publisher=Lawrence & Wishart |isbn=978-1-905007-28-8 |page=19}} cited by {{cite thesis |type=MRes |last=Smith |first=Lottie Olivia |date=July 2021 |title=Exploring Anti-Fascism in Britain Through Autobiography from 1930 to 1936 |publisher=Bournemouth University |page=72 |url=https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/35892/1/SMITH%2C%20Lottie%20Olivia_M.Res_2021.pdf}}</ref>