Atsiliepimai

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The highlight of the book is its account of the events leading up to the famous Battle of Cable Street in 1936. But the author also describes how this battle was part of the wider campaigning work of the Communist Party and working-class movement in the East End. He describes the rent strikes and protests of the immediate pre-second world war period; the wartime struggles for the equal right to civil defence (including the famous invasion of the Savoy Hotel in 1940 and the campaign to use London underground stations as bomb shelters); and the momentous events of the 1945 election campaign. All are vividly brought to life here, together with the men and women who worked tirelessly alongside Piratin.