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Thread #170379   Message #4126142
Posted By: Felipa
14-Nov-21 - 02:24 PM
Thread Name: Any October Songs?
Subject: RE: Any October Songs?
THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY LONGSTAFF
"Told through the words of 16 year-old Stockton-born Johnny Longstaff who was one of an estimated 100,000 people who defied the police to stand in solidarity with the Jewish people of London’s East End, blocking the route of a British Union of Fascists march on October 4, 1936." https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?lang=en&id=57690
The Young'uns on youtube

THE GHOSTS OF CABLE STREET https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=9658 by Paul Simmonds / Phil Odgers / Jon Odgers / Shanne Hasler / Henry Cush /
Recorded by The Men they Couldn't Hang

documentary about the Battle of Cable Street https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE_xclpTAew