A PUBLIC meeting against the far-right and conspiracy theories is being held in Stroud tonight.
The main speaker at the event, alongside members of Community Solidarity Stroud District, will be David Renton, a barrister and antifascist writer.
Renton has written several books on the far right, including “Fascism: History and Theory” published in 2020, “Horatio Bottomley and the Far Right Before Fascism” published in 2022, and “The New Authoritarians: Convergence on the Right” published in 2019.
Renton received a PhD for his thesis on fascism and anti-fascism in Britain after the second world war.
The meeting is to be held on the anniversary on the Battle of Cable Street – when British Jews, Irish workers, trade unionists and left wing groups formed an anti-fascist counter-demonstration to a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists in 1936 through the East End of London – which had a large Jewish population at the time.
It takes place from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at The Trinity Rooms, Field Road.
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