. Before being a movement associated to
(1979-1986), several of whom belonged to the Socialist Workers Party.
. The
left as well as an activist branch of the skinhead movement. This movement was born in
boneheads whose scene and groups were developing during the same period. Marked on the left and on the far left, the
Redskin movement is politically oriented towards
radical and street anti-
fascism, anti-
imperialism, anti-
authoritarianism,
anti-sexism and
revolutionary anti-capitalism.
Its members are often actors of
different Marxist, anarchist, anarcho-
communist or
syndicalist-
revolutionary organizations and alternative scenes of which they use the tools, such as concerts, fanzines, radio broadcasts, sound-systems, etc. They are more broadly linked to the
SHARP (
Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) and above all RASH (Red and Anarchist
Skinheads) movements, which they are largely behind the establishment in
Europe. Even if the appearance of the first
redskins was roughly similar to that of
skinheads, it was differentiated - especially in
France - by the wearing of red laces and badges and/or patches relating to
communism,
anarchism and social struggles. One of the french
redskins bands of the 1980s made a name for themselves as the Red Warriors. The symbol of this band was the sickle and the
baseball bat, a diversion from the
communist symbol of the sickle and the hammer. This band, made up of a hard core of about fifteen people, attacked
racist boneheads around concert halls and in the streets of Paris, sometimes accompanied by other
bands or
anti-fascist groups.