SHARPs are Skin Heads Against Racist People. they want to get back to the origins of the skinhead movement, which ironically has its roots in acting in solidarity with Black coworkers on a labor force against racism. back in the late 60s and early 70s, bosses would make their Black employees shave their heads as “a safety measure” either agailst lice or getting caught in factory equipment. meanwhile their white counterparts were allowed to maintain their hairstyles. if you know anything about the history of genocide, you know shaving heads is part of dehumanization. so some white working people started shaving their heads to communicate with their black coworkers “i am you, and you are me. we are human, and we are together”

this became such a common act of labor solidarity that the racist origins of the bosses shaving heads was lost. so by the late 70s you had white people shaving their heads in solidarity with labor, but without any notion that this solidarity extended across racial bounds. it wasn’t long after that you see the british Labour party shift from being a leftist party to being a fascist-lite party