Anarchy In The UK - Sophie Richmond
Sophie Richmond works with the Sex Pistols, handling the organisation, administration and finance side of things. We asked to write an article for Social Revolution about punk rock, and here it is. We'd welcome readers' views on what influence you think music, punk or otherwise, can have towards revolutionary change.
From Social Revolution #7 1977.
Cable Street Beat Review
An incomplete archive of Cable Street Beat Review, a publication produced by the musical arm of Anti Fascist Action around 1989. Taken from the Anti-Fascist Archive.
Billie Eilish and the Woke-Washing of Highland Park Gentrification
The celebration of pop star extraordinaire Billie Eilish as the defiant “socially conscious voice of Generation Z” is being used to manipulate the narrative of the anti-gentrification struggle in her home neighborhood of Highland Park, Los Angeles.
What Ends When the Symbols Shatter? My Time as a Death In June Fan
This article by John Eden of Uncarved, originally posted on the Who Makes The Nazis? blog, examines the industrial/neofolk music scenes and the effects of their extended flirtation with fascist imagery and ideas over a period of time.
Reclaiming the skinhead tradition - review of "Spirit of '69" by George Marshall
Review of a book about Skinhead culture, taken from issue 2 of Anti-Fascist Action's Fighting Talk magazine.
WCH E4: Anti-Nazi youth movements in World War II
An interview with historian Nick Heath about anti-Nazi youth cultural movements in fascist Europe before and during World War II. In particular we look at the German Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Kids, the French Zazous and the Austrian Schlurfs.
Alfredo Bandelli (1945-1994), proletarian singer-songwriter of the Italian autonomist movement
Submitted by bisognasognare on Aug 24 2017 10:10
Biography of Alfredo Bandelli, a working class militant and songwriter whose songs anonymously became the anthems of the 1968-1977 movements.
Music is stagnating, are neoliberalism and the gig economy to blame?
Submitted by Soapy on Jul 16 2017 15:55
Progress in music is slowing down, a look at how neoliberalism and developments in music production and distribution may be to blame
Music education makes for a poor commodity
Submitted by Soapy on May 23 2017 20:41
The privatization of music education has turned it into a commodity, and with students becoming increasingly addicted to instant stimulation and gratification, a pretty bad one
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