So are the redskins leftist skinheads? If so, are RASH sknheads redskins?
Please excuse my ignorance
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Fully agree. And just like the nazi skins don't give a shit what the original skins were up to, neither should redskins dwell in 60s nostalgia. These are different times and different circumstances.
If you want to nostalgically look back in time at all, I think every skinhead worth their salt should look to the 1978/79 period when large numbers of skinheads were involved in Rock Against Racism, the two tone movement, etc.
Most people would reccommend The Redskins, I personally like Komintern Sect, who were a French band in the early 80s. I'm sure there's people on here who are bigger experts on leftist skin music, though.
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So are the redskins leftist skinheads? If so, are RASH sknheads redskins?
Please excuse my ignorance
yes they are
Red and Anarcho SkinHeads
quite self explanatory
thank you very much. I read the first post and therefore knew about RASH and what the acronym stood for, I just never heard of them being called redskins which prompted the question. But then again I'm quite new to all this...I guess it should have been obvious.
Brigada Flores Magon-Partisans:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDp2J4Mxj6g
Inadaptats-Cataluyna:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ESBAs-WSZQ
The Opressed-Fuck Fascism:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFIKSVy5lvE
Freiboiter-Antifascist Oi!:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdjbgBcF96w
Loikaemie-Good Night White Pride:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_9Zz-X9L00
Perkele-Working Class:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFiM6Br4Ero
Los Fastidios-Antifa Hooligans:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ4jtmHaFHA&feature=fvst
That's just for a start...
Partija Rada
Jedes Herz ist eine revolutionäre Zelle
thank you
please note that the redskins where never an real skinhead band but (yet again) an SWP ploy to get workingclass pleople on their bandwagon, they werent skinheads (more mods/teddy's) and they didn't play skinhead music (but its nice music anyway)
the bands mentioned by atheis are a good start, if your not into oi/punk/hc there are some good red/skinhead ska-reagea bands as well.
any band signed by these labels are to be trusted on their politics and anti-racism:
http://www.insurgence.net/bands.htm
http://www.madbutcher.de/Bands.33.0.html
http://www.kobrecords.com/home.html
and although not explicitly skinhead/socialist a lot of the two tone bands where sound anti-racists with good leftist politics (the specials and the selecter most notably)
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?
Here at least We shall be free
In fairness, the SWP did a great job with the Rock Against Racism campaign, highlighting and promoting the left-wing elements of the punk and skinhead subcultures. I seriously think that RAR and bands such as The Clash and The Specials (both of which participated in the campaign) had a massive influence on punks and skinheads in 1978/79 and helped determining which way part of them would evolve in the future.
Suddenly there were political, anti-racist skins, rather than just non-racist/apolitical ones. Check out footage of the Battle of Lewisham and you'll find the anti-fascists have shorter hair than the NF supporters...
what swp ?
The Socialist Workers Party, a relatively big quasi-Trotskyist group in the UK.
this is the only video I could find with the audio I wanted, let me say now that the video is manga (the name before the song must be the cartoon it is from, it certainly isnt the band), which is shit, but listen to the song over layed on it:
Blaggers ITA - House of the Fascist Scum
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
it was Bleach, a poor excuse for an anime. Although you probably think they're all bad
but that's okay, people have their opinions and it's nothing crucial or anything
but anyway, that was a good song. It's music worth playing, these bands deserve better production on their stuff. Like the drum recording on that was very weak I'd say (not that the drum playing was). It's like old Crass records, all you can hear is the snare.
How many members here are Redskins???
I wonder...
Anyways I would recommend Angelic upstarts. Good Socialist oi!
Yeah whats with that? Some wear black robes
Joseph Stalin:
“I trust no one, not even myself.”
Vladimir Lenin:
“It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed”
Psycho, I'm not an expert on The Redskins, but are you sure they weren't skinheads? They look like skinheads to me...
Oh, how i hate "cyrillic-like english" being used to make it look more "russian".
Angelic Upstarts did it too:
Jedes Herz ist eine revolutionäre Zelle
There's some decent left wing oi bands on this comp -fuck trads , redskin is our thing
any good redskin bands ? im not up to this OI culture much
http://www.cdbaby.com/thisisrash
And with a bit of luck this year we will see a CD of the Redskins released featuring unreleased tracks including some by the pre-Redskins band No Swastikas.
no swastikas
There are a lot of redskins bands.
Here are my favorites:
Brigada Flores Magon (anarchist-communist Skinheads, France)
Downloads:
Brigada Flores Magon
Rock Or Die
Youtube:
+ YouTube Video
The Redskins (Trots, UK)
Downloads:
Neither Washington Nor Moscow
Youtube:
+ YouTube Video
I wanna thanx from Bolsheviks!
