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Blood and Honour logo, featuring Ian Stuart Donaldson.
Blood and Honour logo, featuring Ian Stuart Donaldson.

Blood & Honour is a neo-Nazi music promotion network, founded in 1987, that is comprised of white power skinheads and other white nationalists. The group organises white power concerts and distributes records by Rock Against Communism (RAC) bands. Ian Stuart Donaldson, singer of the band Skrewdriver, was the founder and one of the prominent leaders until his death in 1993. Blood & Honour took its name from the motto of the Hitler Youth, Blut und Ehre. Sometimes the code 28 stands for Blood & Honour, derived from the second and eighth letters of the Latin alphabet, B and H.

Blood & Honour accepts bands with neo-Nazi, white nationalist or white power views. There are several official divisions, such as in the Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Belorussia, Bohemia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Greece, Germany (prohibited in 2000), Finland, Flanders, France, Hungary, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain (prohibited in 2005), Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.

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The origins of the group go back to the United Kingdom in 1977, with the creation of the Anti-Nazi League's Rock Against Racism music organisation. The National Front (NF) responded with its Rock Against Communism movement, and by 1980, the reformed former punk rock band Skrewdriver relaunched the RAC movement.

With the aid of the National Front, concerts were organised under the RAC name through the White Noise Club (WNC), with White Noise Records releasing white power records. RAC grew throughout 1983 and 1984, with concerts regularly attended by over 600 people, promoted only by word of mouth. (Marshall, 1990) Bands that performed at the concerts included Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, No Remorse, The Ovaltinees, Peter & The Wolves and Skullhead. In 1984, white power skinheads from Britain and Europe attended several outdoor RAC festivals organised by the WNC and the NF. With the release of Skrewdriver's Hail The New Dawn album on the German Rock-O-Rama label, the WNC gained an even larger audience.

The National Front split in 1986, which effectively saw the end of the WNC and its links to Rock-O-Rama. Around the same time, it was revealed that the WNC had been defrauding bands and concert-goers. Several bands left the WNC, including Skrewdriver, No Remorse, Sudden Impact and Brutal Attack. By June 1987, these bands launched Blood & Honour, with a magazine of the same name. The official launch was in September 1987 at a London concert with Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, Sudden Impact, and No Remorse. By becoming politically independent, Blood & Honour started supporting many different organisations.

The German Blood and Honour division was prohibited on September 14, 2000, as was the Spanish division in 2005 after the arrest and imprisonment of many of its main leaders. Several other countries continue to investigate their respective Blood & Honour divisions in relation to hate speech.

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Active political parties and groups Blood and Honour · British National Party · British Peoples Party · Christian Voice  · Combat 18 · England First Party · Freedom Party · International Third Position · League of Saint George · National Democrats · National Front · National Socialist Movement · Nationalist Alliance · New Britain Party · New Nationalist Party · Northern League · November 9th Society · Racial Volunteer Force
Pre-1945 people John Amery · A. F. X. Baron · Henry Hamilton Beamish · John Beckett · Hastings Russell, 12th Duke of Bedford · Barry Domvile · William Evans-Gordon · Robert Forgan · Neil Francis Hawkins · J. F. C. Fuller · William Joyce · Arnold Leese · Rotha Lintorn-Orman · Diana Mitford · Unity Mitford · Lady Cynthia Mosley · Oswald Mosley · Alexander Raven Thomson · Henry Williamson
Post-1945 people Ian Anderson · John Bean · Jane Birdwood · Andrew Brons · A. K. Chesterton · David Copeland · Mark Cotterill · Nicky Crane · Sharon Ebanks · Richard Edmonds · Andrew Fountaine · Nick Griffin · Jeffrey Hamm · Anthony Hancock · Patrick Harrington · Ray Hill · Derek Holland · Colin Jordan · John Kingsley Read · Michael McLaughlin · Eddy Morrison · David Myatt · John O'Brien · Denis Pirie · Kevin Quinn · Anthony Reed Herbert · Robert Relf · Charlie Sargent · Simon Sheppard · Troy Southgate · Ian Stuart Donaldson · Keith Thompson · John Tyndall · Richard Verrall · Martin Webster · Martin Wingfield · John Graeme Wood
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