1912 Tailors' strike commemoration, East End Shopfronts, and walks round radical and anti-fascist East End

Public Meeting

Wednesday May 23^rd: UNITED AGAINST SWEATSHOP SLAVERY: THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE GREAT 1912 TAILORS’ STRIKE

In April 1912 a strike started among West End tailors. In May, thousands of immigrant Jewish East End tailors came out to support them and to challenge the whole sweatshop system. Dockers in the East End were on strike too for better conditions, and tailors and dockers held joint strike meetings.

Speakers: Ben Gidley, (senior researcher at Compas at Oxford University

working on East End Jewish radical history)

Donnacha DeLong (President of the National Union of Journalists)

7pm-9pm, Library, Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate EC2M 4QH

(Liverpool Street tube). Organised by the Jewish Socialists’ Group

Coming this weekend!

Saturday 19th May, 12-1.30pm, “Protest, Power, Struggle and Strife. No Pasaran!” Special walk by David Rosenberg for the Rich Mix “Snapshots” festival. £8.50. Bookings: http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/no-pasarn-guided-walk/ Box office: 020 7613 7498

Sunday May 20^th at the new Goldsmiths Row Sunday Book Market, David Rosenberg will be signing copies of “Battle for the East End” between 12.30-1.30pm at the Newham Bookshop stall which will be specialising in London and radical books. The book market, which started last weekend will run every Sunday from 9am-4pm

Exhibition

“After You've Gone: East End Shopfronts, 1988”

Alan Dein's photographs of East End shopfronts were taken in 1988 when many Tower Hamlets streets were on the verge of dereliction. Alan, an oral historian and broadcaster, captured the diminishing, decaying local shops on film, most of them relics of the area's once flourishing Jewish community. The exhibition launches on Thursday 17 May at 6pm, with a talk from Alan on Saturday 9 June at 2.30pm and it runs until Thursday 12^th July at tower hamlets local History Library, 277 Bancroft Road, London E1 4DQ.

Finally – David Rosenberg's regular walks:

Sunday 10^th June 11am. Guided walk  “Anti-Fascist Footprints: a walk through the 1930s East End from Gardiners Corner to Cable Street. £7/£4. Book online at: www.eastendwalks.com

Sunday 24^th June 2.30pm. Guided walk  “The Spark of Rebellion in Bow and Mile End”. £7/£4. Book online at: www.eastendwalks.com

Monday  2^nd July, 6pm. Guided walk “The Radical Jewish East End”. £7/£4. Book online at: www.eastendwalks.com