The National Government of Exploiters and Warmongers by The National Archives UK

Description: Poster attacking the coalition National Government of Ramsey Macdonald as well as calling on readers to demonstrate their opposition to the British Union of Fascists. BUF leader Oswald Mosley led a march to Hyde Park in September 1934.

William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw" in the Second World War) attempted to prosecute the Daily Worker newspaper for incitement to violence because it urged anti-fascists to counter-demonstrate against the Blackshirts in this way.

Date: 1934

Our Catalogue Reference: MEPO 2/3074

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