Punk Ethics is a collective dedicated to promoting the progressive side of the punk attitude. Through campaigns, events and solidarity actions, we work to make punk as an art form into a social movement.
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In collaboration with the good folks at Active Distribution, Punk Ethics is proud to present, for the first time in English Asel Luzarraga’s The Good Don’t Use Umbrellas.
Following on from our solidarity campaign in support of Asel clearing his name as a terrorist after being framed by the police in Chile, his personal account of events is now available to read in English. Translated by Georgina Jimenez, and with a foreword by the legendary punk, Penny Rimbaud.
Synopsis:
In December 2009, Basque punk Asel Luzurraga appeared on every news outlet in Chile, in handcuffs, under arrest and accused of terrorism against the state. A self-proclaimed anarchist and a celebrated author in his home country, Asel had moved to Chile not long before. But the evidence against him didn’t stack up. His arrest and trial made for a political thriller of police corruption, state oppression and media manipulation that did not hesitate to make links with ETA, international terrorism and Mapuche violence. The Good Don’t Use Umbrellas is the chronicle of those events, told by its protagonist.
Punk Ethics has its very own chapter, tracing the campaigns we’ve run over the past 8 years, in an awesome new book from Active Distribution that brings together punks from around the world to talk about the place and impact of anarchism on their local scenes.
A big thanks to the editors Jim, Will and Caroline.
SMASH THE SYSTEM! VOL 1. Available now at all good radical bookshops!
We’ve made a movie! Following the historic UK tour of the Burmese punk band, The Rebel Riot, that we organised in 2017, we are please to announce that we have made a documentary about the band and their time in the UK.
This film is especially important as it shows the band both sharing their experiences and their politics with the UK punk scene as well as learning new things that they were keen to take back to Yangon.
