Name/TitleBadge: Fight WAR Not Wars
About this objectCircular pin badge with white background and the slogan 'Fight WAR Not Wars' in dark blue/purple and red. The slogan is a song title from Crass's album, The Feeding of the 5000, first released in 1978.
Date Madec.1978-80s
Period1970s-1980s
Medium and MaterialsInorganic, metal and plastic
MeasurementsDia: 56 mm
Subject and Association KeywordsPeace movement
Subject and Association Keywordsanti-war
Subject and Association Keywordsmusic, singing, songs
Subject and Association Keywordsanarchism
Subject and Association Descriptionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crass:
Crass were an English art collective and punk rock band formed in Epping, Essex in 1977, who promoted anarchism as a political ideology, a way of life, and a resistance movement. Crass popularised the anarcho-punk movement of the punk subculture, advocating direct action, animal rights, feminism, anti-fascism, and environmentalism. The band used and advocated a DIY ethic approach to its albums, sound collages, leaflets, and films. Crass spray-painted stencilled graffiti messages in the London Underground system and on advertising billboards, coordinated squats and organised political action. The band expressed its ideals by dressing in black, military-surplus-style clothing and using a stage backdrop amalgamating icons of perceived authority such as the Christian cross, the swastika, the Union Jack, and the ouroboros. The band was critical of the punk subculture and youth culture in general; nevertheless, the anarchist ideas that they promoted have maintained a presence in punk. Due to their free experimentation and use of tape collages, graphics, spoken word releases, poetry, and improvisation, they have been associated with avant-punk and art punk.
Named CollectionGlasgow Women's Library
Object TypeBadge
Object numberGWL-2015-112-4
Copyright LicenceAll rights reserved