....Cable Street, formerlyWitty Partition

We are, first and foremost, an international, online journal fostering communication among writers and readers of many languages. We post issues new issues three times a year: on or about the Ides of March, Bastille Day, and Thanksgiving.

To change a name isn’t to change an identity. It’s to reflect that identity better. Think Lew Alcindor to Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Think Mount McKinley to Denali.

So it is with Cable Street. We wanted a name that mirrors what our journal has always been: a festival of communication across the nations and traditions, a chance to wander the byways of art from many hands and many lands.

We found what we sought in Cable Street. A London street that takes its name from ships’ cables that were made by twisting ropes along the street’s length—cables that traveled the world on British fleets. A place enlivened, past and present,  by words in the dozens of languages spoken by seafarers, traders, and immigrants. The site where, in 1936, a coalition of antifascists took a stand against the British Union of Fascists, turning back

Detail from Cable Street mural, London.

the tide of repression, embracing the human family in its multitude of cultures.
                                                                                                                                                                                — Dana Delibovi for the editors

​Please see Issue 18's Table of contents for the Pocket Anthology of our editors riffing on the notion of cables and Cable Street. 
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Cable Street (formerlyWitty Partition) is a collaboration among editors Bronwyn Mills, Eric Darton, Hardy Griffin, Dana Delibovi, Chris Sawyer-Lauçanno, and Jan Schmidt. While the source of editorial comments could be any one of us, all other work is duly credited to the actual authors and translators.