I remember a letter from one of the Paris groups was published in Red Action, so there may have been limited contact but nothing formal. The picture that accompanied the letter was the one of masked anti-fascists in front of 'Red Action Skinhead' graffiti.
The letter and pic were published in one of the old newspaper editions of Red Action, not the magazine version. However, I can't be bothered going through 20+ years worth of shite in my garage to find it, so I'll leave the search for it to you...
Bastard! Why did I mention that?
I am trying to organise the shite, but it'll take years...
Bob Doyle RIP
was in a few different issues (each time saying they were from a different place in France!) that one above was from Issue 75 - the 15 year retrospective issue
This one was from Issue 58 (Paris)
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And this was the one with the letter that you were thinking off from Issue 54 (Lille!)
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The whole archive should be ready to go out soon
yeah they will be
Brilliant, looking forward to it, any idea how soon it will be?
When do you think it will be up and running or you not sure yet?
Should be pretty soon, they were pretty much all ready to go when the problems with the old site started, so that put back things quite a bit
The Black Dragon Gang was the biggest gang in french history (more than 900 members at their peak) they ruled from the mid-80s to the early 90s, as a french version of the Black Panthers, and their goal was to kick out the racist / fascist skinheads out of Paris, much like the Red Warriors & all the antifa thing, except that BDG were an all-black gang (in the film, the only white guy in the gang will tell you the story of how he got in)their turf was mostly La Defense / Nanterre area of Paris, but also Chatelet, and pretty much every station on the RER A train line. as they made this docu themselves, they wont tell you that they were also sometimes considered a racist / anti-white gang...to sum it up, white guys (no matter how they dress) were pretty much supposed to avoid hanging around La Defense at night when BDG were around...
Interesting interview, cheers for postingSeen a few things going around nothing the passing of Red Warriors cofounder Julien Terzics:
Football Lads & Lasses Against Fascism
Julien Terzics of the ‘Red Warriors’ has passed away. He was a great antifascist streetfighter from Paris & the former drummer with Brigada Flores Magon. Rest In Peace, comrade. 👊🏼www.facebook.com
There's a decent interview with him here (does that annoying thing of being broken over two pages for no apparent reason though):
An Interview with Julien Terzics, Ex-Skinhead Hunter – Barricade
barricadejournal.org
And apparently the bar he ran was Le Saint Sauveur, which looks worth a visit if you're ever in Menilmontant:
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