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I still don't agree. The organising body of the strike breakers was the Council, working with the police and the management of the tramways company and the railway works. And egged on by Winston Churchill, in his capacity as editor of The British Gazette, the official government 'newspaper'.

That's why I resisted the efforts made at the top of this thread to characterise the 1926 Battle of Lewes Road as a clash between trade unionists and fascists. It wasn't. The 1948 'Battle of Brighton' might well have been more like that, since it was organised specifically to oppose the...

Are you claiming that the 4,000 strikers who gathered outside the Lewes Road tram depot in 1926 were all communists? I think you'll find that they were a cross-section of Brighton residents, who didn't take kindly to the police 'cracking their skulls', as you put it. Correct. And I don't...

I'm not denying the existence of fascism in 1926. It's simply the case, though, that the opposition to the General Strike in Brighton wasn't led by fascists. It was led by the Council and the Police.

The 'Battle of Brighton' took place on Saturday 5th June 1948, when supporters of Sir Oswald Mosley's post-war Union Movement clashed with the anti-fascist 43 Group and Communists at the Level. Does anyone remember the CBR dispute in the late 1960s, which also spilled over into the streets...

This is NSC's History Man's account of the events of 1926. Tramways and the General Strike Reproduced from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990 d) TRAMWAYS AND THE GENERAL STRIKE: The General Strike of 1926 started on Monday, 3 May, and the support in Brighton was solid, the most...

"Fascists" in 1926? There's some muddled thinking going on.