Skinhead culture started in Britain's working-class neighborhoods, built across Caribbean and white communities around the same music and streets. The far-right didn't create it. They colonized it. This piece traces how that happened and how people inside the scene organized to reclaim it.

https://www.radical-guide.com/the-scene-was-never-just-a-scene/

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Social Revolutions of my Life – Anti-Capitalism & Class Consciousness

This post is Part 3 of a series on social revolutions of the past 30 years — where public consciousness has massively shifted in favor of liberation. My aim is to create space to pause and acknowledge how things have changed in ways that once felt impossible, remind us that things can always be otherwise. It is inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2016 edition of Hope in the Dark and David Graeber’s 2007 essay “The Shock of Victory.” Feel free to check out part 1 and part 2. [...]

https://write.as/free-as-folk/social-revolutions-of-my-life-anti-capitalism-and-class-consciousness

#OnThisDay: 11 May 1926. The General Strike is called off. An editorial in The Evening Post the next day when it was able to resume printing stated: "Unless a General Strike has a revolutionary aim it is bound to be futile."

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#OnThisDay: 10 May 1926 Nottingham bus driver arrested for trying to stop another transport department worker reporting for work during General Strike. Pushed him from bike shouting, "Where are you going? Be a man you dirty dog." Fined 2 pounds

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#OnThisDay: 8 May 1926 4 Nottingham brewery workers arrested during General Strike after allegedly telling blacklegs that if they boarded bus they would wait for them with a Mills bomb on return journey. Charged with committing an act likely to impede or restrict transport & fined 2 pounds each

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#OnThisDay: 6 May 1926 first issue of Nottingham's twice-daily Strike Bulletin urged workers to ignore "any Government or anti-strike propaganda publications, obviously inspired to mislead the public and to attempt to break the General Strike."

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#OnThisDay: Morning 5 May 1926 Printers at the Nottingham Guardian walk off the job, despite the paper's editorial the previous evening which stated: "we imagine there is very little enthusiasm for a General Strike amongst the vast majority of workers."

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#OnThisDay: At 9pm, May 4 1926 some 400 demonstrators supposedly led by local boxer 'Seaman' Carrington besieged the Palais-de-dance but were forced to disperse by police with truncheons

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