TODAY’S Cable Street demonstration was a powerful reminder that capitalist crisis always produces malign symptoms of decay and disintegration.

Passing through streets which were once thronged with Jewish and Irish migrant workers it today saw Bangladeshi restaurateurs handing out free bottles of water to thirsty marchers.

East London has always been the first place for refugees fleeing persecution or colonial citizens seeking work in the capital of empire.

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