'''Crass''' were a [[punk rock]] band formed in [[1977]], and based around [[Dial House]], an anarchist community near [[Epping, England|Epping]] in England,. andThey were progenitors of a militant [[anarchism|anarcho-pacifism]] that became pervasive in the punk music scene (see also [[anarcho-punk]]). Taking literally the punk manifesto of ‘anyone can do it’, they combined the use of song, film, sound collage, graphics and subversion to launch a sustained and innovative critical broadside against all that they saw as a culture built on foundations of war, violence, religious hypocrisy and blind consumerism.
