workingclasshistory:

On this day, 2 September 1962, Oswald Mosley and his fascist blackshirts attempted to hold a meeting in Ridley Road, east London while the British National Party attempted to assemble in nearby Dalston. Anti-fascists from the Yellow Star Movement, an organisation launched in July 1962 in response to an antisemtic rally held in Trafalgar Square by the National Socialist Movement, held a non-stop meeting to keep Mosley off of his favorite pitch. Mosley was forced to relocate to Victoria Park Square, Bethnal Green, where his meeting collapsed under a hail of stones, eggs and fruit and he had to flee as protesters hammered on his car windows with their fists. It was the fourth of his meetings broken up by crowds in just a few weeks.
More info about the fight against Mosley in the 60s in the bonus episode to this podcast series about struggles in the 40s: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/02/17/e35-37-the-43-group/ https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.1819457841572691/2072264569625349/?type=3