Combat 18, Part 1: Lad’s Army w/ Gareth Watkins

Gareth and Gregk discuss what happens when a group of football hooligans decide to elevate their violent bloodlust into a fully-fledged political movement. (Spoiler: Bad, stupid things.) Follow Gareth Watkins on Bluesky

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THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE: OLD WORLD BRB, NEW WORLD AFK ALSO AVAILABLE IN AUDIO This week, we took a look at Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent address at Davos in which he declared the end of the ‘rules-based international order’ (while conceding this had always been US hegemony draped in a convenient fiction) plus recent developments regarding Trump’s grotesque Board of Peace foundation, and provide some thoughts on where we now stand, how we got there, and who walked us there, step by step.

Sources:

Nick Lowles (2014 [2001]), White Riot: The Violent Story of Combat 18

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