Proper noun
A road in the East End of London.
(history, metonymically) The Battle of Cable Street.
1986, AEU, Amalgamated Engineering Union, page 30:Unlike Spain, Cable Street was a success and proved the turning point in the defeat of Fascism in Britain in that period.
1998, Jewish Culture and History, volume I, number 1, Frank Cass in conjunction with the Parkes Centre, University of Southampton, page 96:Third, Cable Street was a clear victory for the working-class against fascism, although its success was ensured by the united working-class campaign for better housing, which began with Paragon Mansions.
1999 June 28, Rosen, Harold, Are you still circumcised?: East End memories, Five Leaves, →ISBN, page 114:Cable Street happened, and thousands of ordinary folk did actually stop a fascist march from taking place in an unprecedented manner: the East End was never the same again.
Broadcast on Sky Arts, the programme included a section on the Battle of Cable Street, a confrontation in in 1936 between Mosley's blackshirt thugs, anti-fascist Londoners and the police. Source: Internet
Protesters gather this-evening outside 12 Cable Street near the Tower of London to picket against today’s opening of the Jack the Ripper Museum. Source: Internet