Watch the speech given by Alex Gordon, General Secretary of the Communist Party, at the Cable Street 90 commemoration.

One of the most important moments in our movement’s history will be celebrated in just a few weeks’ time: the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street.

On 4 October 1936, 250,000 antifascists blocked the way to Oswald Mosley's Black Shirts. On Sunday 4 October 2026, the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, we celebrate their victory and the unity of our diverse communities. Always antifascist!

With speaker: Kevin Courtney
National Chair of Cuba Solidarity Campaign

22nd April 2026
19:15 to 20:25

Coventry Friends Meeting House
Hill Street
Coventry
CV1 4AN

Link: Story from Searchlight Magazine.

Video of public meeting with:

• Alex Gordon, CPB Industrial Organiser
• Mary Davis, CPB Executive Committee
• Liz Fekete, Institute of Race Relations
• Chair: Charlie Weinberg

We note with relief that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have been banned from attending a match against Aston Villa in Birmingham next month. According to research by the New Israel Foundation, Maccabi Tel Aviv has one of the most racist fan bases of any football team in Israel, with the teams Black and Arab players regularly facing racial abuse from fans.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Grunwick strike, the excellent show We are the Lions, Mr Manager, is coming to Coventry's Albany Theatre on 6th/7th of November. It's well worth seeing.

In 1976, six workers walked out of Grunwick Film Processing Laboratory and Factory in Willesden. They staged a strike against their poor working conditions, demanding the right to join a union.

Less than two years later, those six had been joined by 20,000 supporters in an historic dispute fighting for better rights for poorly treated workers.

Coventry TUC presents the 2025 Tom Mann Memorial lecture, which commemorates the birth in Coventry of Tom Mann who went on to lead the engineering and transport unions over a hundred years ago. This year's lecture will take place on Friday, 5th December at the Methodist Central Hall, Warwick Lane, Coventry.

The lecture will be given by the country's leading human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield KC on a history of protest, today faced with growing restrictions, entitled 'Suppressed Democracy'.

The latest copy of Unity!, the Communist Party's monthly journal for the labour, women's, anti-racist and peace movements

Download and read Unity! here

Saturday 13th September
Assemble 12pm
Russell Square
London
WC1B 5EH

March to Whitehall