Unite and Win
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Unite and Win is an Oi!
Oi!
Oi! is a working class subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The music and its associated subculture had the goal of bringing together punks, skinheads and other working-class youths ....

/anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk is punk rock that promotes anarchism. The term anarcho-punk is sometimes applied exclusively to bands that were part of the original anarcho-punk movement in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s and early 1980s...

 album by the band Oi Polloi
Oi Polloi
Oi Polloi are an anarcho-punk band from Scotland that formed around 1981. Starting as an Oi! band, they are generally associated more with the anarcho-punk genre. More recently the band have become notable for their contributions to the Scottish Gaelic punk subgenre...

. It was originally released in 1987 on (Oi! Records), and re-released in 2001 on Step 1 Records with eight extra songs.

The phrase Unite and Win refers to the desire for unification between the punk
Punk subculture
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 and skinhead
Skinhead
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 subcultures. According to the band, if British working class
Working class
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 people united, they would succeed in a fight against both the Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher
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 government and totalitarian ideologies like Communism
Communism
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 and Nazism
Nazism
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(as described in the song, "Commies and Nazis").

Track listing

  1. "Punx 'N' Skins" – 3:40
  2. "We Don't Need Them" – 2:35
  3. "Kill The Bill" – 1:58
  4. "Lowest Of The Low" – 5:52
  5. "Nuclear Waste" – 2:52
  6. "Commies And Nazis" – 3:12
  7. "Pigs For Slaughter" – 4:51
  8. "Scum" – 2:02
  9. "Thrown On The Scrapheap" – 3:40
  10. "Punx Picnic In Prince's Street Gardens" – 3:50
  11. "Mindless Few" – 4:34
  12. "Unite And Win!" – 1:36
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