Red and Anarchist Skinheads

"RASH" redirects here. For the 2005 documentary film, see RASH (film). For other uses, see Rash (disambiguation).

Red and Anarchist Skinheads (RASH) is a left-wing anti-racist, anti-fascist skinhead group.

RASH includes redskins and anarchist skinheads. It was officially launched on January 1, 1993 by members of the Mayday Crew, a left-wing skinhead and punk group based in the New York City area. The Mayday Crew was formed due to in-fighting between members of New York City's Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) chapter, over the murder of a homosexual man by anti-racist, yet right-wing, skinheads. Shortly after the initial call went out for the formation of a network, chapters formed in other countries around the world, mostly from existing left-wing skinhead crews. According to one RASH website, some of the goals of the network were to:

  • To dispel the myth, in both the media and in mind of the general public, that all skinheads are racist.
  • To keep alive and expand the true skinhead subculture through means such as music (Oi!, Ska, Reggae, Soul, Hardcore, Street Punk, etc.), fashion, fanzines, fliers, concerts, dancehalls, and gatherings.
  • To create a space for left-wing ideas to exist in the skinhead scene.
  • To combat, physically and politically, the existence of far-Right ideas in the skinhead scene.
  • To win back the good name of our subculture from the boneheads and racists.
  • To articulate the connection between the young, working-class, multi-racial skinhead subculture and left-wing ideas.
  • To organize for the physical self-defense of left-wing skinheads from attack by all those who declare themselves our enemies.
  • To participate as an active, organized force of anti-racist skinheads in the radical Left and anti-fascist movements.
  • To make sure our vision of the anti-fascist radical Left (working-class, multi-racial, street based and militant) continues to exist.[1]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ US RASH News Website

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