About TSCpunx
We came together as an anarcho-punk collective because of the importance that punk music, attitude and lyrics had in shaping our ideas, and because those ideas are anarchist ones.
As an anarcho-punk collective, our group is based on horizontal and informal relationships of friendship, trust and on the pursuit of common goals. There is no formal organisation or defined roles, which are antithetical to our values.
Our goal, for the time being, is to spread anarchist principles and ideas within the London DIY punk scene – and possibly beyond – and to try to turn the scene into a “community”, where people don’t just come together for the usual Saturday evening gig, but can find a place (which, for the time being is only “virtual”)where they can discuss, clash, bring proposal, and possibly build and be part of something more than a mere subculture, removed from society and without any real political ideas.
As punks, we feel in conflict with the conformism of a normative, ordered society, with its consumerism, the greed that it promotes and the predetermined lives that we are supposed to live under its rule. We are disgusted by main stream music, the gang and greed culture it promotes, and the fake idea of love that it propagates. In the face of all this, we propose a DIY ethic, out of tune, distorted guitars and spite for the herd mentality.
As anarchists, we are anti-authoritarian, rejecting every hierarchy, every government and every form of government, including representative democracy. We stand against every form of Capitalism, including State Capitalism, as systems which favors profit over human beings; we reject every form of organised religion, as institutions which seek to crush the individual beneath the lie of one or more gods; we denounce militarism, believing that armies are just tools that States use to massacre other countries’ citizens when not their own. Now more than ever, we want to emphasise that we strongly believe that there is never a good reason for people to go to war for “their” country, although this is not to say that we reject violence as a mean to fight oppression.
We support the development of the individual, who strives for the full realisation of their potential in pursuit of self improvement, emphasising the importance of self education in this process.
We support free, egalitarian association between individuals, free from prejudice and hierarchies, free from toxic and oppressive dynamics.
We stand with those rebels who are fighting against oppression with a combative approach and a tension towards liberation.
Further to this point, we believe that alcohol and drug abuse is harmful to individuals and to the community they are part of, getting in the way of meaningful relationships and activities. We are not trying to smuggle in any sort of moralism or advocating for dogmatic abstinence, but we have all witnessed the damage that substances abuse can bring to people and communities, and we think that there is need for caution about their use.
As a final word, we are not interested in promoting a more tolerant, green, leftist version of this society. We would like to see this society ERASED, together with its cops, its money and its politicians: there is nothing to be saved. And while punk can’t bring about the destruction we advocate for, it can scream about this dream, keeping it alive, infecting the minds of kids that would otherwise be destined to become subservient subjects of this deadly machine.
The Spirit Continues punx
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This statement is not definitive. We might change some of our ideas or adjust some details along the way if we feel like it or if a good point is made in this sense. We accept and take into account any critique.
