London Records have announced that These Furious Flames! Redskins Live! 1985/86, the definitive live compilation of the incendiary political band, will be released on the 8th December on double CD and Vinyl. The trio Redskins may have taken the look of the early-’80s skinhead movement, but politically they were firmly on the left. Forged amid the streetwise intellectual post-punk frenzy of early-’80s Yorkshire, named after cadres of left-wing skinheads in Sheffield, the Redskins were members of the Anti-Nazi League and the Socialist Workers Party and married Marxist discipline with revolutionary populism. “Like The Fall meets The Four Tops!” they declared. The Redskins’ mix of punk and soul saw them uniting the youth, alongside the likes of Billy Bragg, while ...