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Battle of Cable Street

Battle of Cable Street. Key event in history of British antifascist movement ( Copsey 2000) 4 October 1936 British Union of Fascists (BUF) planned march through Stepney , East London 3000 “ Blackshirts ” (BUF, Mosley) 6000 police 100,000 – 300,000 antifascist demonstrators blocked route

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Battle of Cable Street

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  1. Battle of Cable Street Key event in history of British antifascist movement (Copsey 2000) • 4 October 1936 • British Union of Fascists (BUF) planned march through Stepney, East London • 3000 “Blackshirts” (BUF, Mosley) • 6000 police • 100,000–300,000 antifascist demonstrators blocked route • Street battles; march abandoned Cable Street 80: march and rally • Parallels between 1930s and today • http://cablestreet80.org.uk ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  2. Battle of Cable Street on Social Media ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  3. YouTube Comments Section • (Registered) users can • save, share • 👍 👎 • comment on video • comment (or 👍👎) on other comments • Comments threads • top comments • most recent • Gaps in certain exchanges ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  4. Analysing the Comments Section • What do users comment on? How do they comment? • How do they position themselves and others? Communities of shared values and feelings? • Attitude: affect, judgment, appreciation (Martin and White 2005) • Heteroglossic relations: varying degrees of alliance or opposition (Lemke 1988, 1995) • Dialogic positioning: varying degrees of alignmentor disalignment (White 2003, Martin and White 2005) ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  5. Basic Stats • c. 10,000 words • 2354 types, 9318 tokens • 237 comments • 94 threads (range 1–46 comments per thread) • 61 single-comment threads • 111 users/commenters • Some users have their own avatar (“channel icon”); others have default images ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  6. Key Words and (Dis)alignment everyone shoud ignore the psychotic rantings of pro-fascist trolls. Let them troll off somewhere else. You’re deluded You bitch. Oswald Mosley was a great great man. Not all Jews are bad, that’s nonsense […] However, the Jews and Judeans have a remarkable ability to punch above their weight through psychology and finance. They, like religion, must be reduced in influence to their proper proportions You horrible Nazi cunt. Die soon and slow. You leftist idiots. Yes to Mosley. YOU NAZI PIECES OF SHITS. SMASH FASCIST SCUM Jews are Bolshevik Marxists – Satanists The Jew is the true ant-Christ. Delendaestjudaica! arabspakis destroying this country not fookingjewish I would rather world to b run by jew than arabs savages Oswald Mosley was a great shit. Good for you lad. Wew it's suddenly quiet in the commie side Oswald Mosley, like all Nazi leaders, was no more than an obedient lackey of the frightened ruling class. Fascism in it's ethics, wants to treat you like an adult and be honest about how the world works. Everyone is a Fascist at heart. The only people honest about that were the Fascists. Look you two, you are both right and both wrong. note how that bastard Mosley still got to be called a sir. One instance of no pasarán among the 237 comments: fantastic x wow. thanks for posting this. no pasaran!

  7. Channel Icons and (Dis)alignment ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  8. “Which Side Are You On?”Communities of Shared Values ? ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  9. “Which Side Are You On?”Communities of Shared Values ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  10. Conclusions • Users respond to BoCS, documentary, and each other • Two groups? • alignment or sympathy with ideological positions of Mosley, BUF, and/or fascism • opposition to such positions • Fascist and antifascist positions, or “nasty effect” (cf. Anderson et al. 2014)? • Parallels—what’s missing? ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

  11. References Anderson, Ashley A., Dominique Brossard, Dietram A. Scheufele, Michael A. Xenos, and Peter Ladwig. 2014. "The 'nasty effect': online incivility and risk perceptions of emerging technologies." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 19 (3):373-387. Copsey, Nigel. 2000. Anti-fascism in Britain. Basingstoke: Macmillan. Economou, Dorothy. 2009. "Photos in the news: appraisal analysis of visual semiosis and verbal- visual intersemiosis." PhD thesis, University of Sydney. Lemke, Jay L. 1988. "Discourses in conflict: heteroglossia and text semantics." In Systemic functional approaches to discourse: selected papers from the 12th international systemic workshop, edited by James Benson and William Greaves, 29-50. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex. Lemke, Jay L. 1995. "Intertextuality and text semantics." In Discourse in society: systemic functional perspectives. Meaning and choice in language: studies for Michael Halliday, edited by Peter H. Fries and Michael Gregory, 85-114. Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex. Martin, J. R., and P. R. R. White. 2005. The language of evaluation: appraisal in English. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. White, Peter R. R. 2003. "Beyond modality and hedging: a dialogic view of the language of intersubjectivestance." Text 23 (2):259-284. ¡No pasarán! (Re)enacting the Battle of Cable Street on Social Media

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