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In the context of the skinhead subculture, a redskin is a Marxist skinhead, who often also subscribes to anarchist views. The term combines the word red, (a slang term for socialist or communist) with the word skin, which is short for skinhead. Redskins take a militant anti-fascist and pro-working class stance.
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice was founded in 1987 by Marcus, a skinhead from New York City. [11] [1] It emerged as a response by suburban adolescents to the bigotry of the growing White Power Movement in 1982. Traditional skinheads (Trads) formed as a way to show that the skinhead subculture was not based on racism and political extremism ...
Anti-Racist Action (ARA), also known as the Anti-Racist Action Network, is a decentralized network of militant far-left political cells in the United States and Canada.The ARA network originated in the late 1980s to engage in direct action (including political violence) and doxxing against rival political organizations on the hard right (mainly violent groups of neo-Nazi skinheads) to dissuade ...
Dartmouth College historian Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, credits Anti-Racist Action (ARA) as the precursor of modern antifa groups in the United States. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the late 1980s and 1990s, ARA activists toured with popular punk rock and skinhead bands in order to prevent Klansmen , neo-Nazis and other assorted ...
Anarchist, anti-fascist and anti-racist skinheads in Hannover, Germany. Since the emergence of white power skinheads in the late 1970s, anti-racist forces within the skinhead subculture, sometimes called "Red Skins" when associated with left-wing politics, [79] have sought to resist the white power skinheads, who they often deride as "boneheads ...
Turner Classic Movies, a vintage film channel, filled its schedule with films featuring explicitly anti-fascist and anti-Nazi themes one day after Donald Trump’s return to the White House. TCM ...
Strikeforce particularly despised the anti-facist Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (Sharp). Meeink’s descent into neo-Nazism began when he was just 15 and quickly engulfed him.
The majority of ultras groups in fact present small "bands" within them that are openly neo-fascist or at least far-right extremists, [11] with groups such as Hellas Verona's "Brigate Gialloblu" or Juventus' "Vikings", which has an infamous record of committing acts of violence, which are not related to either the sport or their supported teams ...