Marking the 90th Anniversary of Cable Street

That the Parliament commemorates the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street on 4 October 2026; recalls that, on 4 October 1936, tens of thousands of people, including Jewish residents, trade unionists, socialists, communists and Irish workers, united to prevent Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists marching through London’s East End; notes that the police were deployed not to protect the anti-fascist community but to facilitate the march of the British Union of Fascists; celebrates the mass resistance of ordinary people who stopped that march and remembers their cry, “They shall not pass”; believes that this lesson remains urgent as the far right again organises, intimidates and scapegoats migrants, refugees and minority communities across Scotland and the UK; rejects the normalisation or accommodation of fascism and believes that it must be confronted through organised, democratic and peaceful community resistance; further believes that defeating the far right also means challenging the poverty, inequality and insecurity on which it feeds, and building communities rooted in solidarity, strong public services, workers’ rights, climate justice and welcome for refugees; pays tribute to all those who have resisted fascism and racism, past and present, and affirms that, when communities stand together against fascism, "They shall not pass."