Punk

instead of making a feeble attempt to sum up the punk movement in one blog post I am going to focus on CRASS.

who is CRASS?

Mick Duffield
Phil Free
Steve Ignorant
Eve Libertine
N.A. Palmer
Penny Rimbaud
Gee Vaucher
Joy de Virve
Pete Wright

more importantly what is CRASS?

[DIY]
it started as a band but turned into the means for subverting the status quo through art, music, literature, films.

[Community]
the dial house was home to CRASS and anyone who wanted to be a part of their vision for a truly free society.
[Anti-Establishment]
there were no leaders, there was no heirarchy. anyone and everyone was welcome.

CRASS and the many bands that eventually surrounded them
{Zounds, Flux of Pink Indians, Annie Anxiety, Poison Girls, Snipers, Alternative, Honey Bane, The Mob, Omega Tribe}
came to act as a collective.

the goals were
[peace]
[equality]
[freedom from money/establishment/religion]

"fight war not wars
destroy power not people"



You talk of overthrowing power with violence as your tool
You speak of liberation and when the people rule
Well ain't it people rule right now, what difference would there be?
Just another set of bigots with their rifle-sights on me

Vive la revolution, people of the world unite
Stand up men of courage, it's your job to fight!
It all seems very easy, this revolution game
But when you start to really play things won't be quite the same
Your intellectual theories on how it's going to be
Don't seem to take into account the true reality
Cause the truth of what you're saying, as you sit there sipping beer
Is pain and death and suffering, but of course you wouldn't care

You're far too much of a man for that, if Mao did it so can you
What's the freedom of us all against the suffering of the few?
That's the kind of self-deception that killed ten million jews
Just the same false logic that all power-mongers use
So don't think you can fool me with your political tricks
Political right, political left, you can keep your politics
Government is government and all government is force
Left or right, right or left, it takes the same old course
Oppression and restriction, regulation, rule and law
The seizure of that power is all your revolution's for
You romanticize your heroes, quote from Marx and Mao
Well their ideas of freedom are just oppression now

Nothing changed for all the death, that their ideas created
It's just the same fascistic games, but the rules aren't clearly stated
Nothing's really different cause all government's the same
They can call it freedom, but slavery is the game

{Bloody Revolutions} CRASS