Liverpool makes no secret about its status as a proudly left wing city - you only need to look at the results of the 2019 election to see that.
This proud political history means that, over the years, Scousers have stood up time and again to show far right protestors that fascism has no place in our city.
Protestors coming to Liverpool trying to spread a message of hate and intolerance have repeatedly been shown the door as counter-demonstrators sent them packing.
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It turns out this tradition of running fascism out of our city goes back even further than you might think.
In the autumn of 1937, fascist leader Oswald Mosley made an ill-fated attempt to address a rally of his British Union of Fascists in Liverpool.
Needless to say, it didn't end well for him.
The fascist leader rose to fame in the 1920s while serving as Tory MP for Harrow, before going on to be elected Labour MP for Smethwick in the West Midlands.
Fans of Peaky Blinders will know all about this, as the most recent series had viewers gripped over Tommy Shelby's ascent to Parliament.
His rise into the political call presented him with a new enemy - in the form of Oswald Mosley.
Reality crosses over with fiction on the show, which shows the aristocrat plotting to launch his fascist political party.
Fans were left horrified when Mosley aired his despicable political views at Tommy's house in the latest series - but the show is based around his real-life fascist politics.
While Mosley's anti-Semitic and racist politics found some success in some pockets of London, they failed spectacularly in trying to establish a foothold among Liverpool's working class voters.
In 1937, his followers were growing and he decided to visit parts of the country where he didn't have as much support, with the aim of converting the working classes to a new, fascist ideology.
Unfortunately for Mosley, he didn't realise what kind of a reception he would receive when he tried to peddle his hateful views in Liverpool.
On October 10, Mosley arrived in the city with the intention of holding a rally starting on Queens Drive. His plan was to stand on top of a loud speaker van and tour the city, preaching to the masses.
He got up on the van, gave the crowd a fascist salute but before he could even speak a single word, stones were thrown from the crowd and hit Mosley in the head.
Mosley was taken to Walton Hospital where he was patched up and discharged a week later after treatment for concussion and a minor head wound.
A report published on December 11 in the Glasgow Herald newspaper said: "Sir Oswald Mosley was hit on the head by a stone and knocked semi-conscience immediately he stood on the top of a loud-speaker van to address an open-air meeting at Queens Drive, Liverpool, yesterday.
"As the van was being driven to a piece of waste land, hundreds of missiles were thrown, Sir Oswald, had not had time to utter a word when a large stone hit him on the temple and he fell on his face.
"Mounted police who were standing by in a neighbouring yard, immediately rushed out and charged the crowd back.
"A Fascist bodyguard stood by to guard Sir Oswald in spite of showers of bricks from large sections of the crowd."
Liverpool wasn't the only place where working class voters kicked out fascists in the 1930s - Mosley’s fascists were also attacked by workers, anti-fascists and communists in Devon, Manchester, Newcastle, London and Stockton.
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