Jack the Ripper Industry Distorts

Suffragettes campaigning in London during a by-election in 1910

Rosenberg is a member of History From Below, a global network of radical tour guides. He describes the East End as “the cradle of so many struggles for justice and better conditions for all workers that were then replicated elsewhere.

There is so much to celebrate in terms of achievement of the people in east London.”
It is a compassionate view of history shared by Alia in Mile End: “My thoughts are with the victims of the Ripper. They were women just like me, ready to do whatever was needed to ensure their kids were fed. Our lives matter, then and now.”

As for the identity of the murderer, Harney remarks: “Who was Jack the Ripper – who cares? It’s the victims who died that should be remembered.”