"Anarchist punks, in particular, were instrumental in organizing the first groups to oppose the far..."

“Anarchist punks, in particular, were instrumental in organizing the first groups to oppose the far right. They were joined by other young members of alternative scenes, including relatively new ones that had emerged among Czech young people at the end of 1980s (for example, skateboarding and hardcore, grunge and hip-hop fan scenes) as well as some remnants of former underground and alternative groups under socialism. The transfer of cultural, ideological and practical know-how from Germany and Poland was also vital in this era. During the late 1980s, some punk fanzines described clashes between punks and skinheads at music festivals in Poland. The Polish slogan ‘Zabić skina - skurwysyna!’ [‘Kill the motherfucking skinheads!’] was subsequently adopted by some Czech punks even as others from local punk scenes assisted far right skinheads in anti-Roma attacks in northern Bohemia and elsewhere.”

- Music Subculture versus Class Revolutionaries: Czech Antifascism in the Postsocialist Era, Ondřej Daniel (2020). 
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