Many miners joined the CPGB due to the party's involvement in the 1926 UK General Strike. In 1930 the CPGB founded the "Daily Worker" ("Morning Star"), which outlived the party and is currently the largest and longest-running socialist newspaper in British history. In 1936 many members of the party were present at the Battle of Cable Street, helping organise resistance against the British Union of Fascists. During the Spanish Civil War the CPGB worked with the USSR to create the International Brigades, recruiting well over half of the 2,500 members of the British Battalion, which party activist Bill Alexander later commanded. During WWII, several young CPGB activists led by a teenage Norman Le Brocq founded and led the resistance against the German occupation of Jersey, creating the Jersey Democratic Movement to the various resistance cells. Leading CPGB activists were involved in protests for public access to bomb shelters, organising the evacuation of 3 million children to the countryside, and were heavily involved in post-war negotiations concerning educational reform and the creation of the British National Health Service (NHS). Following the allied victory over the Nazis in 1945, CPGB membership nearly tripled after the end of WWII, reaching the height of its popularity.