American Oi! began in the 1980s, with bands such as U.S. Chaos, The Press, Iron Cross, The Bruisers and Anti-Heros.
In the film, G.B. Jones sits on a second story window ledge and watches through binoculars various events taking place between Bruce LaBruce and a skinhead and, alternately, Mary Tyler Moore and various male figures, and a man (Andrew J. Paterson) in a laundromat.
Eckhard Gerdes compared the song to the skinhead fiction of experimental writer Harold Jaffe.
During his first day at Central High, David sees the three bullies order Spoony (Robert Carradine), a semi-skinhead and radical, to wash off a swastika he painted on his locker.
Kaplan and Weinberg note that "the religious component of the Euro-American radical right subculture includes both pagan and Christian or pseudo-Christian elements," locating Satanist or Odinist Nazi Skinhead sects in the United States (Ben Klassen), Britain (David Myatt), Germany, Scandinavia and South Africa.
New English Library titles were particularly popular in the early 1970s, when hack writers were hired to work under names such as Richard Allen and Mick Norman to churn out tales of Hells Angels and skinheads.
The Skinhead Hamlet is a short parody of the play Hamlet by Richard Curtis, a co-author of Blackadder.
Most of the original four band members were or had been skinheads, thus the double meaning of the band's name.
The phrase Unite and Win refers to the desire for unification between the punk and skinhead subcultures.