shall not pass!
Neighbours said that the men said they were police. The director of Chapeltown Citizen's Advice Bureau rang the local police station to ask why the men had to come to Rose's house. The police station denied that anyone had called.
Councillor Lorna Cohen and the Euro MP for Leeds, Mike McGowan, also made inquiries told that the police did not want to talk to Rose Alaso.
On the Saturday morning at 7.30 am the plain clothes men again pounding at her door. Rose refused to admit them unless she had one of her advisors with her. The men went away.
Rose and her companion then went to the phone box to telephone for advice - but a police car drove on the pavement at her. The police As anti-fascist demonstrators commemorated the victorious Battle of Cable Street in East London, the Labour Movement Campaign for Palestine issued this reminder of the lessons for Jewish workers.
The courage and determination of the thousands of Jewish workers
Tin alliance with Catholic dockers and doners - who fought the Battle of Cable Street, contains lessons for us today. Above all their victory showed and anti-semitism can be fought and defeated.
Their fight for the right to live as Jews in Britain stood in sharp contrast and oppostion to the aims of the zionist movement which at that time was seeking to establish a separate Jewish-only state by col onising the land of Palestinians.
The zionists argue that antisemitism is an inherent part of the gentile (non-Jewish) character; it cannot be fought, and thus emigration to a Jewish "homeland" is the only answer.
The Jewish workers' organisations — the Jewish People's Councils in particular - which stopped 4,000 fascist thugs in their tracks, had a different answer racism they faced. "Direct action".
workers' solidarity, not
defeated the rise anti-semitism in Britain.
Today Black people in the East
End of London face similar attacks.
and a racist police
Labour Movement Campaign for
Palestine looks to the example of
Cable Street for the way forward.
The slogan "They shall not pass" is
as applicable today as it was
yesterday.
car. let refused to only to be denies these charges. were arrest. This harassment for black visitors to Britain communists, East Lon- many that fascism the to the Zionism of fascism and force. The don WC1 3XX.
jumped out, handcuffed her and rammed her into the back of the muzzle At the police station the police Mike her phone McGowan. Rose was held for over 8 laws. hours - and eventually charged vith not paying a taxi fare and biting a policeman's finger! Rose Over 30 people later attended the emergency press conference called questioned to explain the background to Rose's blatant absolutely immigration by officials and police must be seen against the background of the lories' new racist "visa" pass law Contact Labour Movement Cam- paign for Palestine, BM LMCP. Lon- Socialist Viewpoint No. 14 November-December 1986 p12
They represent a clear attempt to
Rose a strong campaigner not only in her ow defence but in defence of other atacked by the racist immigration
The campaign committee has pledged itself to redouble its efforts to keep Rose and Brian in Britain.
Rose told local councillor Garth Frnkland that the police had
Ther over her membership of the Labour Party.
here had also been pressure
revent her from going to the TU - but she went anyway.
"I am proud of my fight.I will g on till we win," she said
Anti-fascist arrested in
1936 events.