Critique of Crass's Position on Anti-Fascism by Andy Martin

Finally, at a concert we performed at Chats Palace near Homerton Hospital on May 13th, xxxxx gave me a book – Antifascist (2006) by Martin Lux.  The simple, direct and utterly unequivocal title of his book displays more eloquence than any amount of middle class white Marxist twaddle peddled by such sick jokes as the SWP (known now as the Social Workers Party) and its contents are a damn sight more relevant to the struggle today than all the contrived waffle stuffed inside the cover of any Crass record. If only this marvelous little tome had been published in 1983 when all those pathetic, wretched black clad youths sacrificed their scant revolutionary beliefs at the altar of a hippy band from Epping whose most trenchant statement was ‘fight war not wars’. That was it, that was the most angry they could possibly dare to be without risking their woeful pacifist philosophy of which I was merely very suspicious back then but which I now hold in utter contempt and derision today.

MESSAGE TO CRASS: WHEN THE PEOPLE YOU REGARDED AS LEFT WING THUGS CAME AND TROUNCED THE BRITISH MOVEMENT FASCISTS AT YOUR GIG AT CONWAY HALL, MANY ORDINARY INNOCENT PEOPLE, MOST OF WHOM WERE FANS OF YOURS, WERE RESCUED FROM BEING BATTERED, BRUISED AND BULLIED BY PEOPLE WHO FOLLOW THE SAME CREED BY GRANFATHER FOUGHT AGAINST IN 1945. REMIND US AGAIN, JUST WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO TO STOP IT? WHAT WAS YOUR RESPONSE? TO CRITICISE THE PEOPLE WHO CAME TO THE VENUE AND STOPPED PEOPLE LIKE ME BEING BRUTALLY BEATEN BY NEO-NAZI SCUM.

Understand this, all you trendy types wallowing in nostalgia for the 1980s and the anarcho-punk pantomime. I know from personal experience how it feels to be on the receiving end of neo-nazi violence – when my home was gutted by fire from  petrol bombs lobbed through the front window by neo-nazi cowards in 1984 – when 4 members of a wretched little motorcycle gang barged into Daves’ flat, shoved on a cassette of Wehrmacht marching songs and attacked me with a pick-axe handle in 1985. How do you expect me to react when a bunch of white middle class hippies tell me, from the safety of their Epping commune, that ‘left wing, right wing, it’s all the effing same’? Bollocks is it – wake up! How many times have I been beaten up, assaulted and had my home attacked by communists? None. How many times have our non-white band members been threatened with violence and called Chinks and Gooks by Marxist audience members? None. Welcome to the real world, chaps. Yes, the SWP are a sad joke. Yes, Marxists have the blood of Jews and homosexuals on their hands. Yes, we are aware of Hungary 1956, Czechoslovakia 1968, Cambodia 1975 and Tian An Men Square 1989. Meanwhile, on the council estates and housing schemes, gangs of vicious drugged up teenagers try to make life a misery for local residents. Do the police stop them? No. Do we stop them? Yes. How? We mobilised with the local tenants, battered seven bells out of their leaders and threatened the others with hospitalisation should any further antisocial behaviour occur. Did it work? Yes.

Why is it now virtually impossible any longer for the BNP to assault innocent Pakistani people in Bradford? Because a couple of years ago they tried it and large groups of Pakistanis mobilised their forces against these neo-nazi rat-bags and hospitalised the bastards, that’s why. That’s why it’s now safe for Asians to walk the streets of Bradford and other northern towns. These Pakistanis didn’t say ‘fight war not wars’. They didn’t quote from Ghandi. They didn’t go and see a poxy punk band. They fought back – hard. That’s the only language neo-nazi cowards understand and respect. ANTIFASCIST by MARTIN LUX published by Phoenix Press, PO Box 824, London N19DL. It’s only £5.95 – so buy it and clear that old fashioned anarcho-punk crap from your heads.

Critique of Crass's Position on Anti-Fascism by Andy Martin (Apostles)
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[Hemisphere Creep]

Blasted those cunts.