On this day, 10 October 1937, British aristocratic fascist leader Oswald Mosley was knocked unconscious and hospitalised in Liverpool by a stone thrown by anti-fascists who attacked a Nazi meeting at which he had attempted to address the crowd. The Glasgow Herald newspaper reported: “Sir Oswald Mosley was hit on the head by a stone and knocked semi-conscience immediately he stood on the top of a loud-speaker van to address an open-air meeting at Queens Drive, Liverpool, yesterday. As the van was being driven to a piece of waste land, hundreds of missiles were thrown, Sir Oswald, had not had time to utter a word when a large stone hit him on the temple and he fell on his face. Mounted police who were standing by in a neighbouring yard, immediately rushed out and charged the crowd back. A Fascist bodyguard stood by to guard Sir Oswald in spite of showers of bricks from large sections of the crowd.”
Learn more about the fight against Mosley and his fascists in the 1940s in our podcast: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/
Pictured: mostly being hit by a brick as he gave a Nazi salute https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2105244829660656/?type=3
