90 years ago a working class revolt stopped the fascists in East London. Tens of thousands of people came together at Cable Street to physically stop Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists from marching and terrorising the East End’s Jewish community.

There are a huge amount of events taking place over the next few weeks to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street and we’ll try to list them here. Please email comms@claptoncfc.co.uk for tips on what we’ve missed.

Unite have commissioned a mural commemorating Cable Street at the Old Spotted Dog Ground, to be unveiled at this weekend’s home games.

We also have a limited run (a few dozen) Cable Street 90 T-shirts featuring a part of the mural on the front and Cable Street 90 on the back. Now available online or on the merch stall at games in four sizes until they’re all gone.

Unite has also released a free Cable Street newspaper which you can find in the Old Spotted Dog Ground clubhouse among other stockists.

Sunday, September 27

The Women, Rent Strikes and Cable Street meeting will explore the history of women at the forefront of housing struggles. 7pm at the Hason Raja Centre, Whitechapel. Free. More information.

Tuesday, September 29

Hear the voices of those who were at Cable Street in a unique event. The Voices of Cable Street: Witnesses To The Battle is hosted by Professor Pippa Catterall of the University of Westminster, who recorded witness testimonies in 1991. 6pm, online. Book a free ticket and more information.

Wednesday, September 30

A free online panel discussion at 7pm with Alexei Sayle and other comedians titled Comedy Against Fascism. The rise of the far right in modern Britain is no laughing matter, but can comedy, irony, or satire be harnessed for political impact? More information and book free tickets.

Thursday, October 1

Solidarity on the Streets is a new exhibition at Four Corners in Bethnal Green opening on Thursday, October 1 and running until the end of the month. This exhibition documents East Enders’ enduring resistance to racial hatred and intolerance, including photographs by Paul Trevor, Tom Learmonth, David Hoffman, Lloyd Gee, Mayar Akash and Sheila Gray, with artwork by Dan Jones, archive film and documents. More information here. 

A new Battle of Cable Street exhibition at Tower Hamlets Library and Archives in Mile End opens on Thursday, October 1 drawing on photographs, newspapers, ephemera and archival documents. It explores the events of 4 October 1936, the wider local and international context, the rise of fascism in East London, and the legacy of the Battle — from the build-up, the aftermath to its later commemorations, and the enduring relevance to contemporary political life. Free entry, runs until February 2027. More information.

The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park are marking the 90th anniversary with a walk through the Cemetery Park, among the people who made the resistance possible. The Radical Walk in the Cemetery Park takes place at 6pm. Tickets are sold out but you can join the waiting list.

A new play follows Kate Kelly, an Irish docker’s wife, as she faces an impossible choice on the eve of Sir Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists march through the East End. On at The Space on the Isle of Dogs, from October 1 to 4. More information and book tickets,

Friday, October 2

From 5.45pm, join a public meeting Remembering The Battle of Cable Street, celebrating unity and standing together against racism and fascism. At the London Muslim Centre in Whitechapel. Free tickets and more information.

There’s a film screening and discussion of The Battle of Stockton at 7pm at The Space on Westferry Road, Isle of Dogs. Three years before the Battle of Cable Street, the people of Stockton in the north-east of England, organised to keep the fascist blackshirts out of their town. More information and book.

Saturday, October 3

The Clapton CFC Men’s First Team will be playing at home against Great Wakering Rovers at the Old Spotted Dog Ground in Forest Gate at 3pm. As well as the game, it will be the first chance to see the new Cable Street mural. No need for tickets, pay on the day.

There’s the Cable Street 90 Gig at Kachette in Shoreditch from 8pm. Music from Sports Banger and King Alpha Sound System, plus exhibition of anti-fascist photography. Tickets £15 (£10 low wage) available here. 

Sunday, October 4

The main event is the Battle of Cable Street march on Sunday, October 4, meeting noon outside Tower Hamlets Town Hall with the march starting at 1pm. Bring union banners, flags and all your friends. 

Afterwards, of course we now have a Clapton CFC Women’s First Team game at 3.30pm at the Old Spotted Dog Ground, which we hope will become the Cable Street after party. No need for tickets, pay on the day.

Also on the Sunday from 5pm, ‘Modern Cockney’ Poetry Grand Slam at St George-in-the-East Church in Shadwell. Join special guest Michael Rosen to celebrate the modern Cockney (bold, inclusive and generous non-posh Londoners) and the anti-fascist legacy of the Battle of Cable Street. Few tickets left, more information and to book. 

Tuesday, October 6

The event Cable Street 90: Fighting Fascism Then and Now is at Rich Mix in Bethnal Green featuring Zack Polanski, Michael Rosen, Diane Abbott and more. Tickets and more information here.

Wednesday, October 7

After the sell-out David Rosenberg/Michael Rosen event, there is one more book talk at the Old Spotted Dog Ground to mark the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, in association with Newham Bookshop. Author Daniel Trilling will be in conversation with Aamna Mohdin, discussing his important new book, If We Tolerate This: How the British establishment made the far right respectable. Daniel writes about migration, human rights and the rise of the far right in Britain and Europe. Aamna is The Guardian’s community affairs correspondent and author of the memoir Scattered: The making and unmaking of a refugee. 7pm. Tickets here.

Battle for the East End sees David Rosenberg, Nurjahan Julie Begum and Taj Ali discuss resistance in the East End from the battle of Cable Street to the Bengali activists of 1978, and Women Unite Against Racism in the 1990s. 6.30pm at Four Corners in Bethnal Green. Pay what you can for tickets.

Thursday, October 8

Alan Kunna, Asif Shakoor, and Georgie Wemyss will discuss the interconnected histories of Lascars, Cable Street and anti-racist resistance in the East End in the Q&A event Cable Street: Across Borders with a special screening of Limestone and Jute by Tosin. 6.30pm, at Four Corners in Bethnal Green. See here for tickets.

Tuesday, October 13

The play Chicken Soup with Barley is about a Jewish Communist family living in the East End of London, following their participation in the battle of Cable street and the personal and political struggles and triumphs they experience as the 20th century wears on. Join Feminist Fightback to participate in reading the play aloud together followed by a discussion, starting at 7pm at Portsoken Community Centre, Aldgate. Free. More information.

Thursday, October 15

The In Solidarity film screening event showcases the work of five local people who created short films inspired by the Battle of Cable Street as part of the East End Stories “In Solidarity” project. 6.30pm at Four Corners in Bethnal Green. Free. More information.