Working for the clampdown : an introduction / Colin Coulter -- Part I. 'No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones' : the Clash, the politics of pop and the neoliberal conjuncture. The Clash, revolution and reverse / Jason Toynbee ; The Clash and musical artistry : against the corporate voice / Caroline Coon ; 'Up in heaven (not only here)' : the Clash, left melancholila and the politics of redemption / Part II. 'Back in the garage with my bullshit detector' : the Clash and the cultural politics of punk. 'Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards?'--England past and England future in 1970s punk / Ruth Adams ; Retrieving the messianic promise of punk : the Clash in 1977 / Kevin Cashell ; What if Keith Levene had never left the Clash? Punk and the politics of novelty / Pete Dale ; 'The beautiful people are ugly too' : the Clash as my 'true fiction' / Martin James -- Part III. It could be anywhere, most likely could be any frontier, any hemisphere : The Clash around the world. 'Up and down the Westway' or 'live by the river'? Britishness, Englishness, London and the Clash / Conrad Brunström ; 'Cashing in the bill of rights'? The Clash, Gary Foley, punk politics and Indigenous Australian activism / Alessandro Moliterno ; Brigade Rosse : The Clash, Bologna and Italian punx / Giacomo Bottà and Ferruccio Quercetti