Skinheads Against Racial Damage

The movement S.H.A.R.P ( Skinheads Against Racial Damage or Skinheads against the racial prejudices ) indicates a movement of Skinhead S known as traditional positioning against racism (contrary to the Bonehead S).

This movement, born with the the United States towards 1980 is, like the original movement skinhead, stripped of precise political affiliation. The skinheads sharp are basically antifascists and antiracists.

In 1980, some skinheads American wished to anchor the movement in the antiracism to counter the recovery which was made by it by the extreme-right-hand side. The first posters of the sharp represented a boot trampling a swastika on bottom of American flag.

It is the British group The Oppressed which made known the sharp in Europe in the form, not of a structured party, but of initials, of a sign of recognition for the skinheads which reject the extreme-right-hand side. These British first skinheads sharp were often engaged in parties and trade unions of left in the Années 1980 (with the left wing of the workers party and the British trade unionism, but seldom in communist organizations). But it there forever have official bond between the parties or trade unions and the sharp. It is rather a question of a conscience of belonging to the working class and of sharing values of left. The boneheads of the time called all the skinheads antiracists " reds" (reds) and confused the redskins (communist) and the sharp. The relationship between redskins and skinheads sharp was not always besides with the good shape, because, in the years 1980, much of skinheads sharp a visceral rejection at the same time Fascism and Communism posted. At that time, the model represented by the Soviet block caused an important rejection in Western youth, including at those which had a sensitivity of left.

The movement current, international, is structured very little: some associations and especially initials and logos (two hâches crossed or the helmet of Greek warrior of the British label ska-reggae Trojan records). To carry the symbol sharp is especially a manner of positioning against racism and Fascism for the skinheads. In France, the movement sharp wants to be " populaire" , " antiraciste" , " antifasciste" and especially independent of very party or trade union. The Ruddy fox of Chatelet the markets became the most famous band of skinheads antiracists and the most scorned Parisian movement, this gang existed of 1989 to 1995 and took part in the revival of the culture of street of the skinheads become too politicized. To the United States, the movement sharp parade under the spangled banner, says " patriot" (the nuance with nationalism is not always obvious), antiracist, antifascist and " working class" (workman). It is attested that at the time of the first war of the Gulf, of the American skinheads sharp ravelled to give their support for the policy of their government and to testify to their patriotism. One thus measures the extent of the variations of political sensibility of those which post the initials sharp.

The skinheads RASH ( Red and Anarchist Skinheads , often called skinheads red and black or cocoboys) and the SHARP are sometimes in disagreement, the movement rash, anchored to the far left, being well more politicized the sharp. Of another dimensioned, much of skinheads Antiracists and without political affiliation reproach the RASH for wanting to recover movement SHARP.

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