Mark’s newly published book tells the history of the two years of anti-fascist struggle that successfully broke the rise of Oswald Mosley and his antisemitic British Union of Fascists. Opposition to Mosley took place across the country; from Newcastle to Plymouth, Hull to Liverpool, Scotland to Wales, and reaching its climax in Cable Street. The movement that halted the rise of fascism in Britain was made up of members of the Communist Party, the Independent Labour Party, the Labour party, trade unionists, church and community groups, and social and cultural organisations.
Mark Krantz’s previous works include The 1842 General Strike (Bookmarks, 2014) and The Cotton Famine: Lancashire Textile Workers and the American Civil War (Red Roof, 2017).