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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 ...
Various white power skinhead groups as well as select factions of the Ku Klux Klan are listed only if they espouse neo-Nazi ideals as a whole. This list does not include pre-1945 organizations founded either before or during World War II; "neo-Nazi" literally means "new Nazi".
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 ...
[54] [55] In 1985, a 76-year-old Jew who had survived the Holocaust was trampled to death during a fight between skinheads and anti-fascist demonstrators. In 1987, skinheads attacked Christians during a festival in Lindau because of the town council's refusal to allow the neo-Nazi Alliance of the German People to hold a meeting in the town hall ...
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.
Lin Newborn (May 7, 1974 – July 4, 1998) was an African-American anti-racist skinhead who was murdered by white supremacists in July 1998 alongside his friend, Daniel Shersty. Life [ edit ]
A Riz Ahmed documentary released earlier this year, may have shed light on the hidden history of British-Asian resistance to the violence of the 1970s and 1980s – Britain’s era of “P ...