What would happen if the Battle of Cable Street took place today?

Battle of Cable Street took place 88 years ago this week .

It was a revolutionary uprising by Jews , leftists and workers against the threat posed by the British Union of Fascists .

The BUF was founded by Oswald Mosley in 1932 .

Mosley had been a Conservative MP before crossing the floor of the House of Commons to join the Labour Party .

The people of the East End were rather less taken with Mosley ’s fascist tribute act.

Would we see an uprising of resistance, a taking to the streets to see off the fascists and rally around their targets? I fear we would not. I fear such solidarity is all but impossible in the era of identity politics, intersectionality and progressive suspicion of Jewish privilege' I fear today the Jews might be on their own though hopefully joined by that smattering of the population that still appreciates that when anti-Semitism rears its head, society is in deep trouble.

The Battle of Cable Street is inconceivable in modern Britain .

The ideas, the bravery, the decency required for such a street fight with fascism no longer exist.

The atomising creed of identitarianism, the relentless rise of privilege policing, the cult of competitive grievance, the wariness of Zionism that so often crosses over into wariness.