About Red and Anarchist Skinheads

---

R.A.S.H. Is an international political organization of antifascist Anarchist and Communist Skinheads with chapters around the world. We are dedicated to representing and sharing the multi-racial, working class, and radical history of the skinhead subculture, as well as being involved in the larger antifascist struggle. R.A.S.H. was formed in New York City in 1993 and was one of the first formal organizations in the skinhead scene to start the work of combating misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, and nationalism, and providing security for LGBTQ+ events. Since then it has spread around the globe with dozens of chapters spanning over four continents.

R.A.S.H. chapters in their respective areas routinely host informational, educational, and subcultural events such a Rock Against Fascism (R.A.F.), educational nights (movies, presentations, etc.), self-defense classes, DJ nights and more with the intention of upholding the left wing skinhead scene and working class antifascist subculture. Our goal is to provide a safe space in these scenes for working class movements and for the most oppressed (notably BIPOC, women, non-men, queer people, and other communities we come from) to organize, interact, and support each other. In the interest of reaching these goals, R.A.S.H. will work with, offer safety for, and support events and organizations that share similar goals. 

1. To dispel the myth, both in the media and in the mind of the general public, that all skinheads are racist.
2. To keep alive and expand the true skinhead subculture through means such as music (Oi!, Ska, Reggae, Soul, Hardcore, Punkrock, Hip Hop, etc.), fashion, movies, fanzines, fliers, concerts, dancehalls, and gatherings.
3. To create a space for left-wing ideas to exist in the skinhead scene
4. To combat, by any means necessary, the existence of far-right ideas in and out of the skinhead scene
5. To win back the goof name of our subculture from transphobes, homophobes, misogynists, boneheads, and racists.
6. To articulate the connection between the young, working-class, multi-racial skinhead subculture and left-wing ideas.
7. To organize for the physical self-defense of left-wing skinheads from attack by all those who declare themselves our enemies.
8. To participate as an active, organized force of anti-racist skinheads in the radical left, working-class, and anti-fascist movements.
9. To make sure our vision of the anti-fascist radical left (working-class, multi-racial, street based, revolutionary, and militant) continues to exist.
10. To uphold anti-patriarchy and the safety of women, non-men, queers, and the oppressed in our subculture and political organizing spaces.