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Blood & Honour

June 07, 2023

This article is about the Neo-Nazi group. For the 1982 television drama, see Blood and Honor: Youth Under Hitler. For other uses, see Blood and Honor.

Blood & Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion network and right-wing extremist political group founded in the United Kingdom by Ian Stuart Donaldson and Nicky Crane in 1987. It is composed of White Nationalists and has links to Combat 18.

Official logo

Sometimes the code 28 is used to represent Blood & Honour, derived from the second and eighth letters of the Latin alphabet, B and H, and the group uses Nazi symbolism. Its official website self-describes as a "musical based resistance network" and dubs its "global confederacy of freedom fighters" Brotherhood 28.

In the UK, the group used to organise White power concerts by Rock Against Communism (RAC) bands. It publishes a magazine called Blood and Honour. There are official divisions in several countries, including two rival groups in the United States. It is banned in several countries, including Germany, Spain, Russia, and Canada.

History

The roots of Blood & Honour go back to 1977 in the United Kingdom, when the white nationalist National Front (NF) founded the Rock Against Communism (RAC) movement in response to the Anti-Nazi League's Rock Against Racism campaign. By 1980, a new version of Skrewdriver—by then a white power skinhead band—relaunched the RAC movement. Ian Stuart Donaldson, Skrewdriver's singer, was a founder of Blood & Honour and one of its prominent leaders until his death in 1993. Nicky Crane was a co-founder.[1] With the aid of the NF, the White Noise Club (WNC) organised concerts under the RAC name, and the RAC movement grew throughout 1983 and 1984.

In 1986, the NF split into two factions, and around this time, it was discovered that the WNC had been defrauding bands and concert-goers. Several bands left the WNC, including Skrewdriver, No Remorse, Sudden Impact and Brutal Attack. Donaldson decided to break away from the WNC and organise concerts for the NF, so he founded Blood & Honour. By June 1987, with the help of other white power bands, Blood & Honour was launched, along with a magazine of the same name.[2] A concert was held in Morden, Surrey, to commemorate this launch on 5 September, with Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, Sudden Impact and No Remorse playing to a crowd of 500, including French, Italian and German supporters.[3][4]

The name was derived from the motto of the Hitler Youth, or HJ, Blut und Ehre, and a song of the same name by the White power band Skrewdriver.[5] and AWB-style triskele.[6]

By the end of 1988, Blood & Honour magazine was a quarterly that had grown from eight to 16 pages after a few issues. The magazine included concert reports, band interviews, readers' letters, RAC record charts and a column called "White Whispers". A mail-order service called Skrewdriver Services soon formed within its pages, selling items such as white power albums, T-shirts and flags; Loyalist music tapes; and Swastika pendants.[3]

The back page of Blood & Honour Issue Number 13 advertised a Skrewdriver concert in London on 12 September 1992. Posters and fliers were posted around the country, advertising the concert and listing a redirection point as Waterloo Rail Station. The night before the concert, Donaldson was attacked in a Burton pub. The next day, police closed down Waterloo Station and the tube station, preventing many people from reaching the redirection point. Hundreds more Blood & Honour supporters who had journeyed from abroad were turned back at ports in Folkestone and Dover. The Blood & Honour supporters clashed with anti-fascist protesters. Missiles such as bricks and champagne bottles taken from bins outside of South Bank restaurants were used during the ensuing riot. Battles ensued for about two hours until the police separated the two groups, and the concert proceeded in the function hall of the Yorkshire Grey pub in Eltham, South-East London. The incident got international media coverage and became known as the "Battle of Waterloo".[4][7]

In 1992, the newly formed Midlands division organised the annual Blood & Honour White Xmas concert. On 19 December, over 400 supporters gathered at a working men's club in Mansfield to watch No Remorse, Razors Edge and Skrewdriver perform. In 1993, the East Midlands division planned to stage an outdoor festival on 31 July. Donaldson was arrested and served with an injunction order not to perform at the concert. The venue was blockaded by the police, who seized amplifiers and confiscated sound equipment. It was the biggest police operation in the area since the Miners strikes in the early 1980s.[8]

Later that year, the East Midlands division organised a concert for 25 September. Three nights before the concert, Donaldson and a few friends were travelling in a car that spun out of control into a ditch. Donaldson and another passenger died, and other passengers had minor wounds. The following day, 100 Skrewdriver supporters travelled to the Blood & Honour social in the Midlands, unaware of the deaths.[citation needed]

Each year, on or near the anniversary of Donaldson's death, a large memorial concert is held. In 2008, a concert in Redhill, Somerset attracted widespread BBC, radio and newspaper coverage.[9][10] The memorial concert to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Donaldson reportedly was the biggest associated gig in the UK with between 1,000 and 1,200 people attending.[11][12] On the 23rd anniversary of the death of founder, Ian Stuart Donaldson, the annual memorial gig once again attracted international television and media coverage.[13][14][15][16]

Description and symbolism

The group is composed of White Nationalists and has links to Combat 18.[1] Its official website self-describes as a "musical based resistance network" and dubs its "global confederacy of freedom fighters" Brotherhood 28.[17]

Sometimes the code 28 is used to represent Blood & Honour, derived from the second and eighth letters of the Latin alphabet, B and H. Though different national chapters of Blood & Honour use different Nationalist symbols based on their location, common symbolic traits include the usage of a modernised Blackletter script, colours of the Nazi German flag, and other Nazi symbolism, including the Totenkopf Death's Head insignia of the SS-Totenkopfverbände and concentration camp units.[5]

International groups

There are official divisions in several countries.[1] In the United States, two rival groups claim the name: Blood and Honour Council USA and Blood and Honour America Division.[18]

Blood & Honour is banned in several countries. Blood & Honour Germany was outlawed in Germany in 2000,[19] Spain in 2011,[20] and Russia in 2012.[citation needed] In 2019, the government of Canada placed Blood & Honour on its list of designated terrorist groups.[21]

In 1999, some Blood & Honour groups published support on their official websites for the Malexander murders in Sweden.[citation needed]

Blood & Honour Australia & the Southern Cross Hammerskins have been organising the annual Ian Donaldson Memorial concert in Melbourne since 1994. Reports by the media that the concert in 2019 was cancelled at the last minute were false, as it went ahead as it does each year without incident.[22][23][24][25]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c . Blood & Honour. Archived from the original on 25 June 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  2. ^ Shaffer, Ryan (2013). "The soundtrack of neo-fascism: youth and music in the National Front". Patterns of Prejudice. 47 (4–5): 458–482. doi:10.1080/0031322X.2013.842289. S2CID 144461518.
  3. ^ a b Skrewdriver Rockumentary 1977 to 1993 - From Punk to Patriotism. Midgard Records (Sweden). 2000.
  4. ^ a b . Skrewdriver.net. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  5. ^ a b . Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  6. ^ . Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 11 January 2012. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  7. ^ Reilly, Joe (April–May 1999). . Red Action. 3 (6). Archived from the original on 12 May 2008.
  8. ^ "Skrewdriver - Rockumentary 1977-1993". Discogs. from the original on 24 April 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  9. ^ "Family flee 'neo-Nazi' rally". BBC News. 23 September 2008. from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2008.
  10. ^ "Probe into 800-strong Nazi event". BBC News. 23 September 2008. from the original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved 25 September 2008.
  11. ^ Lowles, Nick (22 September 2013). . HOPE not hate. Archived from the original on 8 July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  12. ^ "Ian Stuart Donaldson and a legacy of hate". Channel 4. 24 September 2013. from the original on 11 July 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
  13. ^ Brown, Raymond (6 October 2016). "Hundreds attend Blood and Honour neo-Nazi rally in Cambridgeshire". Cambridge-news.co.uk. from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  14. ^ "Police let neo-Nazis hold rally in small village 'because they thought it was for charity'". Metro. 7 October 2016. from the original on 10 April 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  15. ^ Chidzoy, Sally (6 October 2016). "'Charity' neo-Nazi rally not opposed". BBC News. from the original on 16 July 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  16. ^ "Neo-nazi rally took place as police thought it was a 'charity event'". The Independent. 7 October 2016. from the original on 17 May 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  17. ^ "[Home]". Blood & Honour. 2 April 1988. from the original on 29 August 2019. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
  18. ^ "Intelligence Files: Blood & Honour". Southern Poverty Law Center. from the original on 23 July 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2013.
  19. ^ "Germany bans neo-Nazi group". BBC News. 14 September 2000. from the original on 8 September 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  20. ^ "El Supremo ordena a la organización neonazi 'Blood and Honour' que se disuelva" (in Spanish). Público.es. 8 June 2006. from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
  21. ^ "About the listing process". www.publicsafety.gc.ca. 21 December 2018. from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  22. ^ "ISD19". from the original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
  23. ^ "White supremacist concert in Melbourne cannot be stopped, Premier says". ABC News. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 8 October 2019. from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  24. ^ "Melbourne's neo-Nazi festival stopped, Jewish leader says". 7NEWS.com.au. 16 October 2019. from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
  25. ^ Skinheads, Southern Cross Hammer (28 April 2011). "Southern Cross Hammerskins". ABC News. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation. from the original on 26 November 2022. Retrieved 1 April 2021.

Further reading

  • Lowles, Nick; Silver, Steve (eds.) (1998). White Noise: Inside the International Nazi Skinhead Scene. London. ISBN 0-9522038-3-9.
  • London, Paul. Nazi Rock Star: A Biography of Ian Stuart.
  • Marshall, George (1990). Spirit of '69: A Skinhead Bible. Dunoon, Scotland: ST Publishing. ISBN 1-898927-10-3.
  • Marshall, George (1996). Skinhead Nation. S.T. Publishing. ISBN 978-1-898927-45-7.

External links

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This article is about the Neo Nazi group For the 1982 television drama see Blood and Honor Youth Under Hitler For other uses see Blood and Honor Blood amp Honour is a neo Nazi music promotion network and right wing extremist political group founded in the United Kingdom by Ian Stuart Donaldson and Nicky Crane in 1987 It is composed of White Nationalists and has links to Combat 18 Official logo Sometimes the code 28 is used to represent Blood amp Honour derived from the second and eighth letters of the Latin alphabet B and H and the group uses Nazi symbolism Its official website self describes as a musical based resistance network and dubs its global confederacy of freedom fighters Brotherhood 28 In the UK the group used to organise White power concerts by Rock Against Communism RAC bands It publishes a magazine called Blood and Honour There are official divisions in several countries including two rival groups in the United States It is banned in several countries including Germany Spain Russia and Canada Contents 1 History 2 Description and symbolism 3 International groups 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 External linksHistory EditThe roots of Blood amp Honour go back to 1977 in the United Kingdom when the white nationalist National Front NF founded the Rock Against Communism RAC movement in response to the Anti Nazi League s Rock Against Racism campaign By 1980 a new version of Skrewdriver by then a white power skinhead band relaunched the RAC movement Ian Stuart Donaldson Skrewdriver s singer was a founder of Blood amp Honour and one of its prominent leaders until his death in 1993 Nicky Crane was a co founder 1 With the aid of the NF the White Noise Club WNC organised concerts under the RAC name and the RAC movement grew throughout 1983 and 1984 In 1986 the NF split into two factions and around this time it was discovered that the WNC had been defrauding bands and concert goers Several bands left the WNC including Skrewdriver No Remorse Sudden Impact and Brutal Attack Donaldson decided to break away from the WNC and organise concerts for the NF so he founded Blood amp Honour By June 1987 with the help of other white power bands Blood amp Honour was launched along with a magazine of the same name 2 A concert was held in Morden Surrey to commemorate this launch on 5 September with Skrewdriver Brutal Attack Sudden Impact and No Remorse playing to a crowd of 500 including French Italian and German supporters 3 4 The name was derived from the motto of the Hitler Youth or HJ Blut und Ehre and a song of the same name by the White power band Skrewdriver 5 and AWB style triskele 6 By the end of 1988 Blood amp Honour magazine was a quarterly that had grown from eight to 16 pages after a few issues The magazine included concert reports band interviews readers letters RAC record charts and a column called White Whispers A mail order service called Skrewdriver Services soon formed within its pages selling items such as white power albums T shirts and flags Loyalist music tapes and Swastika pendants 3 The back page of Blood amp Honour Issue Number 13 advertised a Skrewdriver concert in London on 12 September 1992 Posters and fliers were posted around the country advertising the concert and listing a redirection point as Waterloo Rail Station The night before the concert Donaldson was attacked in a Burton pub The next day police closed down Waterloo Station and the tube station preventing many people from reaching the redirection point Hundreds more Blood amp Honour supporters who had journeyed from abroad were turned back at ports in Folkestone and Dover The Blood amp Honour supporters clashed with anti fascist protesters Missiles such as bricks and champagne bottles taken from bins outside of South Bank restaurants were used during the ensuing riot Battles ensued for about two hours until the police separated the two groups and the concert proceeded in the function hall of the Yorkshire Grey pub in Eltham South East London The incident got international media coverage and became known as the Battle of Waterloo 4 7 In 1992 the newly formed Midlands division organised the annual Blood amp Honour White Xmas concert On 19 December over 400 supporters gathered at a working men s club in Mansfield to watch No Remorse Razors Edge and Skrewdriver perform In 1993 the East Midlands division planned to stage an outdoor festival on 31 July Donaldson was arrested and served with an injunction order not to perform at the concert The venue was blockaded by the police who seized amplifiers and confiscated sound equipment It was the biggest police operation in the area since the Miners strikes in the early 1980s 8 Later that year the East Midlands division organised a concert for 25 September Three nights before the concert Donaldson and a few friends were travelling in a car that spun out of control into a ditch Donaldson and another passenger died and other passengers had minor wounds The following day 100 Skrewdriver supporters travelled to the Blood amp Honour social in the Midlands unaware of the deaths citation needed Each year on or near the anniversary of Donaldson s death a large memorial concert is held In 2008 a concert in Redhill Somerset attracted widespread BBC radio and newspaper coverage 9 10 The memorial concert to mark the 20th anniversary of the death of Donaldson reportedly was the biggest associated gig in the UK with between 1 000 and 1 200 people attending 11 12 On the 23rd anniversary of the death of founder Ian Stuart Donaldson the annual memorial gig once again attracted international television and media coverage 13 14 15 16 Description and symbolism EditThe group is composed of White Nationalists and has links to Combat 18 1 Its official website self describes as a musical based resistance network and dubs its global confederacy of freedom fighters Brotherhood 28 17 Sometimes the code 28 is used to represent Blood amp Honour derived from the second and eighth letters of the Latin alphabet B and H Though different national chapters of Blood amp Honour use different Nationalist symbols based on their location common symbolic traits include the usage of a modernised Blackletter script colours of the Nazi German flag and other Nazi symbolism including the Totenkopf Death s Head insignia of the SS Totenkopfverbande and concentration camp units 5 International groups EditThere are official divisions in several countries 1 In the United States two rival groups claim the name Blood and Honour Council USA and Blood and Honour America Division 18 Blood amp Honour is banned in several countries Blood amp Honour Germany was outlawed in Germany in 2000 19 Spain in 2011 20 and Russia in 2012 citation needed In 2019 the government of Canada placed Blood amp Honour on its list of designated terrorist groups 21 In 1999 some Blood amp Honour groups published support on their official websites for the Malexander murders in Sweden citation needed Blood amp Honour Australia amp the Southern Cross Hammerskins have been organising the annual Ian Donaldson Memorial concert in Melbourne since 1994 Reports by the media that the concert in 2019 was cancelled at the last minute were false as it went ahead as it does each year without incident 22 23 24 25 See also EditBloed Bodem Eer en Trouw Flemish splinter group of Blood amp Honour Vlaanderen List of neo Nazi bands List of neo Nazi organizations Nazi punk Vlaamse Militanten Orde White power skinhead List of white nationalist organizationsReferences Edit a b c When the Storm Breaks Blood amp Honour Archived from the original on 25 June 2013 Retrieved 28 June 2013 Shaffer Ryan 2013 The soundtrack of neo fascism youth and music in the National Front Patterns of Prejudice 47 4 5 458 482 doi 10 1080 0031322X 2013 842289 S2CID 144461518 a b Skrewdriver Rockumentary 1977 to 1993 From Punk to Patriotism Midgard Records Sweden 2000 a b Diamond In The Dust Skrewdriver net Archived from the original on 27 April 2009 Retrieved 28 June 2013 a b Hate On Display Neo Nazi Skull and Crossbones Anti Defamation League Archived from the original on 21 January 2013 Retrieved 28 June 2013 Hate On Display Triskele Anti Defamation League Archived from the original on 11 January 2012 Retrieved 28 June 2013 Reilly Joe April May 1999 It Woz AFA Wot Done It Red Action 3 6 Archived from the original on 12 May 2008 Skrewdriver Rockumentary 1977 1993 Discogs Archived from the original on 24 April 2019 Retrieved 12 December 2017 Family flee neo Nazi rally BBC News 23 September 2008 Archived from the original on 26 September 2008 Retrieved 25 September 2008 Probe into 800 strong Nazi event BBC News 23 September 2008 Archived from the original on 26 September 2008 Retrieved 25 September 2008 Lowles Nick 22 September 2013 Huge gig few Brits HOPE not hate Archived from the original on 8 July 2014 Retrieved 13 July 2014 Ian Stuart Donaldson and a legacy of hate Channel 4 24 September 2013 Archived from the original on 11 July 2014 Retrieved 13 July 2014 Brown Raymond 6 October 2016 Hundreds attend Blood and Honour neo Nazi rally in Cambridgeshire Cambridge news co uk Archived from the original on 8 October 2016 Retrieved 12 December 2017 Police let neo Nazis hold rally in small village because they thought it was for charity Metro 7 October 2016 Archived from the original on 10 April 2019 Retrieved 12 December 2017 Chidzoy Sally 6 October 2016 Charity neo Nazi rally not opposed BBC News Archived from the original on 16 July 2019 Retrieved 12 December 2017 Neo nazi rally took place as police thought it was a charity event The Independent 7 October 2016 Archived from the original on 17 May 2020 Retrieved 12 December 2017 Home Blood amp Honour 2 April 1988 Archived from the original on 29 August 2019 Retrieved 3 April 2021 Intelligence Files Blood amp Honour Southern Poverty Law Center Archived from the original on 23 July 2013 Retrieved 28 June 2013 Germany bans neo Nazi group BBC News 14 September 2000 Archived from the original on 8 September 2012 Retrieved 12 September 2012 El Supremo ordena a la organizacion neonazi Blood and Honour que se disuelva in Spanish Publico es 8 June 2006 Archived from the original on 13 January 2012 Retrieved 12 September 2012 About the listing process www publicsafety gc ca 21 December 2018 Archived from the original on 5 October 2016 Retrieved 29 June 2019 ISD19 Archived from the original on 17 September 2021 Retrieved 1 August 2021 White supremacist concert in Melbourne cannot be stopped Premier says ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation 8 October 2019 Archived from the original on 8 March 2021 Retrieved 1 April 2021 Melbourne s neo Nazi festival stopped Jewish leader says 7NEWS com au 16 October 2019 Archived from the original on 15 April 2021 Retrieved 1 April 2021 Skinheads Southern Cross Hammer 28 April 2011 Southern Cross Hammerskins ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation Archived from the original on 26 November 2022 Retrieved 1 April 2021 Further reading EditLowles Nick Silver Steve eds 1998 White Noise Inside the International Nazi Skinhead Scene London ISBN 0 9522038 3 9 London Paul Nazi Rock Star A Biography of Ian Stuart Marshall George 1990 Spirit of 69 A Skinhead Bible Dunoon Scotland ST Publishing ISBN 1 898927 10 3 Marshall George 1996 Skinhead Nation S T Publishing ISBN 978 1 898927 45 7 External links EditOfficial website Blood amp Honour symbol in the Anti Defamation League s Hate On Display database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Blood 26 Honour amp oldid 1156393404, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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