Street art · London
Photo: Jim Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0
Cable Street Mural
By Dave Binnington Savage, Paul Butler, Ray Walker & Desmond Rochfort
You're standing in the middle of 1936 — mounted police charge, red banners fly, and "PASS NO FISH FASCISM" howls back at Mosley's Blackshirts. This is the Cable Street Mural, London's socialist-realist answer to Guernica.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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