Stop the City: “The City of London is where the arms race starts, oppression is financed and exploitation organized. Come and create a peaceful protest for life.”

As articulate, polarizing demagogues, Crass ushered in a new era of Anarcho-Punk, using Punk’s aggressive music and subcultural mode of self-definition in service of serious radical ends. These were not bomb-hurling anarchist folk devils, nor the aesthetic provocateurs of early Punk: the new vanguard were genuinely, and at times puritanically, committed to opposing war, capitalism, religion, sexism, racism, and animal abuse.

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I have yet to read the book, but I love the chapter.