Punk Meets Breakcore Mashup

Great looking gig: The Junction, Stokes Croft, Bristol, Cost: £2/3 - starts at 9pm. Parasite, Officer Down, War Against Sleep and more!!!

Bristol Smash bring you our third party at The Junction, with live punk, dub, hip hop and more. This time we're raising funds for anti-fascist organisations and charities. So come along to Smash fascism, and stick your middle finger up at the BNP. Or just come along for a good party, and listen to some of the best musi...c on offer from Bristol and beyond.

Original event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=340593934377&ref=ts

Some Gigs worth attending....

Here's a couple of dates for your diary...

bristol and south wales hunt sabs, sea shepherd and bristol antifa benefit gig

at the white heart,(whithall road), bristol
6:30-7 doors and £6 on the door

with
active minds
tortyr
jesus bruiser
cry havoc
this system kills

and...

Friday 12th Feb, The Croft,117-119 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3RW

Bristol Antifa and Bristol ABC present Freedom of Movement: a punk ska hip hop benefit in solidarity with Russian antifascists, raising funds for funeral costs and supporting the family of an antifascist murdered by neo-nazis in Moscow last November. Info here: http://libcom.org/news/gentle-bonecrusher-life-death-ivan-khutorskoy-17112009

Early start - doors 6.30pm, first band on 7.15pm. £6 on the door.

La Fraction (France) - rare appearance of legendary melodic Parisian punk-rock
Left for Dead - classic Kentish cider punx
Jakal - hip hop ska punk from London
Rejected - hardcore street punk from Wales

http://bristolabc.wordpress.com/
http://bristolantifa.org/

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Reading Room: No Retreat

Next book - is one I read a while ago - No Retreat by Dave Hann and Steve Tilzey. I get suggested lots of books with political content and often they are worthy in the sense the topic being covered is worthwhile but often a bit depressing and/or argue a case that you agree with. When I first got this book, I was worried about that; I was wrong - it's a great book - even people who don't like political books will enjoy it - the two authors' stories within are fast moving accounts with lots of action that means the reader really enjoys the ride.

This book is about the need for, and accounts of, street fighting against the far-right from the late 60s to the early 90s in the UK. It is in two parts, one by each of the two authors; Dave Hann (who sadly died last year of cancer) and Steve Tilzey. There has been speculation and counter speculation about the authors and what they might have or might not have done. I'm going to suggest that you read their own words; they are clear about what they are doing and why....and they make a strong case.

This is a great read - not only is it a fast-paced and gripping action story, but also carries political weight both in the people the take on and the in-fighting within groups they were part of. Highly recommended.

(PS. There is some audio of one of the authors speaking online here.)

Anti-Nazi Resistance Hero Dies

From the Hope Not Hate blog...

The world lost one of the heroes of the anti-Nazi resistance yesterday with the death of Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. Marek was one of 200 Jews who battled German troops for a month in 1943 before the Ghetto was razed to the ground. It was the single largest revolt during the Holocaust.

The Warsaw Ghetto was set up by the Nazis in 1940, as part of a wider operation to round up Jews across occupied Eastern Europe. Between 300,000 and 400,000 people were crowded into the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest of its kind in Europe.

In the summer of 1942 the Nazis began the forcible transportation of Jews from the Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp, in an operation codenamed Grossaktion Warschau.

In mid-January 1943, the Germans began their second wave of deportation, but this time it was met by an armed insurgency within the ghetto. While Jewish families hid in their "bunkers", Jewish Military League (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy, ŻZW) fighters, joined by elements of the Jewish Combat Organisation (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB) engaged the Germans in two direct clashes. Hundreds of people took up small arms to fight the Nazis. They took control of much of the Ghetto, built defences and executed collaborators.