@POWERPLANTRECORDS | PowerPlantRecords.com | Leave a positive Google review! Title: Varukers - Murder Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1986 / Punk / UK82 / Leamington Spa Matrix #: RPR 082 Condition: Sealed (LM) Cultural Facts: Personal Struggle Rat was one of the key voices of UK street punk, coming out of Thatcher-era Britain when anger over class decline, unemployment, and state violence was shaping the whole scene. Political Science Varukers were among the most overtly anti-war bands in UK82, pushing a raw political message that linked punk fury to nuclear fear and social collapse. Scene Ecology By the mid-80s they had become a bridge between first-wave British anarcho punk and the harder d-beat and crust scenes that followed. 4/10/26 LM