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Red and Anarchist Skinheads

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Red and Anarchist Skinheads is a subculture that combines elements of skinhead culture with leftist political ideologies, particularly anarchism and anti-fascism. This group often advocates for social justice, anti-racism, and working-class solidarity, distinguishing itself from other skinhead factions that may embrace far-right or nationalist views.
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Red and Anarchist Skinheads is a subculture that combines elements of skinhead culture with leftist political ideologies, particularly anarchism and anti-fascism. This group often advocates for social justice, anti-racism, and working-class solidarity, distinguishing itself from other skinhead factions that may embrace far-right or nationalist views.

Key research themes

1. How do Red and Anarchist Skinheads construct their identity and ideological stance within and against mainstream and far-right skinhead cultures?

This theme investigates the identity formation, ideological positioning, and cultural practices of Red and Anarchist skinheads, particularly their anti-racist orientation and political activism. It is crucial as it elucidates the internal diversity of the skinhead subculture beyond mainstream stereotypes, highlighting how left-wing and anti-fascist factions contest far-right domination within the scene and broader society.

Key finding: This study reveals that Czech antiracist skinheads, emerging from the late 1980s with ties to punk subculture, maintain a complex political identity characterized by a dual tension: a commitment to leftist ideologies... Read more
Key finding: Through content analysis of Czech apolitical skinhead lyrics and interviews, the paper finds that despite self-identification as apolitical, nationalism, anti-communism, and conservative values permeate the subculture. This... Read more

2. In what ways can Red and Anarchist Skinheads be conceptualized as social movement organizations engaging in radical activism, and how do their dynamics inform broader theoretical frameworks on social movements and radicalism?

This theme focuses on contextualizing Red and Anarchist skinheads within social movement theory, analyzing their organizational structures, ideological frameworks, recruitment, and radical tactics. Understanding these dynamics is essential for integrating skinhead groups into social movement scholarship, highlighting their role in political contention and identity politics at the margins.

Key finding: Although primarily focused on radical right groups, this study’s application of social movement theories—such as resource mobilization, political opportunity structures, framing, and networks—provides a heuristic framework... Read more
Key finding: The paper offers a phenomenological and processual approach to radicalization in social movements, defining radicals as activists embracing direct action with risk, often including violence. It highlights that radicals often... Read more
Key finding: Through ethnographic biographical interviews, the research shows how politically novice participants engage in collective mobilization while actively avoiding conventional institutional politics. This paradoxical... Read more
Key finding: This case study of the Provisional Irish republican movement highlights how timing, geography, and political background shape recruitment dynamics and consequent ideological cohesion or factional splits within social... Read more

3. How should Red and Anarchist Skinheads be conceptually situated within or against frameworks of street gang, far-right group, and extremist youth group research?

This theme critically examines definitional and classificatory challenges in situating Red and Anarchist skinheads relative to similarly organized groups such as white power skinheads, alt-right gangs, and far-right extremist youth groups. Clarifying these boundaries matters for accurately understanding group dynamics, criminality, ideology, and informing law enforcement and policy responses.

Key finding: The article challenges the scholarly and policy exclusion of racist skinheads from street gang research by demonstrating substantial overlap in durability, criminal involvement, and group identity. It argues that this... Read more
Key finding: This work critiques the narrow ideological lens applied to alt-right gangs and their exclusion from traditional gang studies, positing that racist skinheads' ideological heterogeneity and engagement in criminality situate... Read more
Key finding: The study situates the alt-right’s identity politics analogously to intersectional identity frameworks on the Left, underscoring the centrality of ethno-nationalist identity forming the basis for in-group/out-group hostility.... Read more

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The first remarkable signs of the skinhead subculture, according to the current literature, date back to 1985, but the first signs of skinhead can be traced between 1983 and 1984. The anti-communist mood in society and growing community... more
Poucos sabem, mas a subcultura skinhead tem sua origem e essência na cultura jamaicana, sobretudo na música, moda e comportamento. Meu projeto experimental de conclusão do curso de Jornalismo na UFMG, Skinheads em Belo Horizonte: o que... more
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This paper will focus both on the historical and actual development of the anti-racist skinheads in the Czech Republic and also their importance within the skinhead subculture generally. Special attention will be given to the relationship... more
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