Beatty Orwell, who opposed Mosley's fash in the '30s, dies aged 105.
Beatty Orwell, who opposed Mosley's fash in the '30s, dies aged 105.
LOUISE RAW meets a remarkable Eastender whose activism began by opposing Oswald Mosley's blackshirts as a teenager in the ’30s
Rest in peace to a real one.
She was at the Olympia rally and the Battle of Cable Street and remained a lifelong anti-fascist.
The interview linked is from a few years ago, but here's a good quote.
She tells me that, yes, she remembered many fascist street gatherings in Bethnal Green.
It must have been frightening for her, as a young Jewish girl, then of only about 15 or 16, to have to walk past them, I ask? I should have known better than to have for a moment thought Beatty Orwell would have simply walked past: “Well – I shouted at them. ‘Fascist bastards’, I’m afraid!”