The following extract is of John Courcouf. John was born in 1910, he was a Waltham Forest resident and a member of the Communist Party. He was very active in anti-fascist activities in the 1930s and managed to acquire a ticket for Mosley's British Union of Fascists' rally at Olympia in 1934. He was also present at the Battle of Cable Street in 1936. You can listen to him describe what he witnessed at both events by clicking on the sound file below. 

Reproduced with permission from the Waltham Forest Oral History Workshop.

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