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[communard resolution]

Can you recommend any red skinhead bands? I'd be specifically interested in skin bands with red/leftist attitudes, not just anti-racist ones. I hear there's quite a few good RASH/redskin bands in Italy and Spain?

[Kropotesta]

Los Fastidios
http://www.myspace.com/losfastidiosofficialpage

[Lector Malibu]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZTZ3_cqHY

THE REDSKINS

[redSHARP]

NON SERVIUM!! (they sing in spanish but my friend says they sing in castilian)
brigada flores magon (they have a song called RASH)
oi pollio (they are anti-communist but pro-anarchist)

those are the best ones in my opinion.

[communard resolution]

Thanks for your tips. I had never heard of Non Servium before, who redSHARP recommended. Checked them out last night and thought they were awesome! Real rough'n'ready brickwall Oi.

I also stumbled upon this old working class band called Banda Bassotti:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=131519222

Not sure if they're a pure skinhead band, but it looks like they have a large skinhead fan base in Italy, and at least some of the band members are skins. Some of their songs lean towards punk, others towards two tone ska. They play some GREAT covers of old communist songs, such as for example this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrEf_hgLFp8

('Fischia il vento' - a WW2 Italian partisan anthem whose original melody was taken from a Soviet song called 'Katyusha')

or this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXIidPrMdAI&feature=related

('Bella Ciao' - another partisan song)

They also do a cover of 'Comandante Che Guevara' somewhere, but I can't find it right now.

I love this band. Hope you enjoy!

[An archist]

These are all great:
-klasse kriminale
-jeunesse apatride
-esclaves salaries
-obrint pas
-brixton cats
-loikaemie

[Bandito]

BRIGADA FLORES MAGON
if you haven't heard them,do it straight away:)
BOISTEROUS
absolutely the best.
also-
Los Fastidios
Klasse kriminale
Crashed out
Stage Bottles
Davova psichoza
The Protest
The Opressed


and many,many,many more.....:)

[communard resolution]

Non Servium and Brigade Flores Magnon are my favourites so far - thanks for that.

Klasse Kriminale and Boisterous: you guys sure these bands are red or anarchist? I was always under the impression they're just plain non-racist, apolitical Oi.

EDIT: By the way, don't you think RASH is a nice example for commies and anarchists sticking together?

[jaffe]

klasse kriminale is anarchist

koas urbano
ya basta!
nabat
heros and zeros
comrade
bolchoi
redweilers
poblers united
kortatu

[Red October]

I really like Oi Polloi, but their politics kind of suck. I like their positions on anti-fascism, but when it comes to the environmental issues, I feel like they're way too "green anarchy wooo". Anyway, they're still a really good band and I'd recommend them, even if they're not specifically a skinhead band.

[Bandito]

Klasse Kriminale and Boisterous: you guys sure these bands are red or anarchist?
As for Boisterous,they are one of my favourite oi! bands.
If you are unsure about their political views,here's just a couple of the song titles:
Working class man
Have you forgotten about your class
Poor man's revenge
I strongly reccomend them.

[communard resolution]

As for Boisterous,they are one of my favourite oi! bands.
If you are unsure about their political views,here's just a couple of the song titles:
Working class man
Have you forgotten about your class
Poor man's revenge
I strongly reccomend them.

Hmm... Oi bands, esp the British ones, always had working class rhetoric without necessarily being left-wing. Bands such as The Last Resort (who also had a song "Working Class Kids") were actually nationalist and fairly right-wing. Or look at a band like Condemned 84: plenty of 'working class' songs, but these guys are ultra-nationalists.

It's very common in the UK to be proud of being working class and to celebrate traditional British working class culture - but that doesn't say anything about your political views.

[Mindtoaster]

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Wow, no one put Inadaptats. Its a redskin/catalonian independence band and is definatley one of my favorites. Just type "Orgull De Classe" into youtube, since I can't post videos or links yet. It is definatley what you're looking for.

[Dean]

Anti-heros
Blood for Blood (more hardcore but in a similar vein)

[jaffe]

they're not political.

les partisans
the press

[An archist]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j2JiP-c8iE
Oi polloi, me somewhere in the front row:cool:

[Bazza]

Skin Deep - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TeczRoKPuDQ

The Burial - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Burial

There's a load of left wing skinhead bands on this compilation CD - http://www.cdbaby.com/thisisrash

[Red October]

The Oppressed are fantastic

[Sasha]

a good place to start are trusted labels, you can safely asume the politics of bands signed on insurgencerecords (http://www.insurgence.net/), madbutcher (http://www.madbutcher.de/) or kob (http://www.kobrecords.com/index.php) for example are sound.....

[Bazza]

a good place to start are trusted labels, you can safely asume the politics of bands signed on insurgencerecords (http://www.insurgence.net/), madbutcher (http://www.madbutcher.de/) or kob (http://www.kobrecords.com/index.php) for example are sound.....

Good call on Insurgence Record.

However, I'd avoid Mad Butcher records like the plague as the owner Mike is well known to rip off bands, artists and other labels. I should know as he has ripped me off in the past. He still owes me money for 45 copies of the Redskins tribute EP 'A Flame That Can't Be Dimmed' which he has never paid anything for. He has also ripped off Detour Records, Redskins (no song writers fees were paid on the recent reissue of the live album) and a numbers of other bands.

[jaffe]

fire and flames records

[Sasha]

However, I'd avoid Mad Butcher records like the plague as the owner Mike is well known to rip off bands, artists and other labels.

thats new to me, for all i know they are sound, nice people with their harts in the right places. you are the first persone i ever heard from that's got bad experinces with them. weird.. but then again i'm no fan of the redskins what so ever so i'm hardly an impartial witness. sorry...

[K.Bullstreet]

Probably all been listed in this post before, but here are my favourites;

The Oppressed
The Blaggers/Blaggers I.T.A/Blaggers A.K.A.
Stagebottles
Los Fastidios
and currently Bottlejob from Hackney. Oi Oi.


Generally keep an eye out for any bands that do Antifa or any other anti-fascist benefit gigs. That's how I've discovered some in the past.

;):cool: