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Blood & Honour are a militant neo-Nazi network founded in 1987 in response to the Anti-Nazi League's Rock Against Racism organisation. The group organises neo-Nazi concerts and distributes records by RAC bands. Sometimes the code "28" stands for "Blood & Honour", the code is derived from the second and eighth letters of the alphabet, the initials B & H.

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The history of the organisation starts in 1977, with the creation of the Anti-Nazi Leagues 'Rock Against Racism' music organisation, causing the National Front to respond with its own 'Rock Against Communism' (RAC) organisation. By 1980 the reformed racist skinhead band Skrewdriver re-launched RAC to help themselves and other bands promote and organise concerts.

With the aid of the National Front, gigs were organised under the RAC name through the White Noise Club (WNC), with White Noise Records acting to release records. RAC grew throughout 1983-1984, with gigs regularly attended by over 600, seeing bands such as Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, No Remorse, The Ovaltinees, Peter & The Wolves and Skullhead, with only word of mouth publicity.

Later in 1984, wihte power skinheads from all over Britain and Europe united to attend several outdoor RAC festivals organised by 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 links to Rock-O-Rama. It emerged that the WNC had been defrauding the bands and gig-goers. Several bands left the WNC, including Skrewdriver, No Remorse, Sudden Impact and Brutal Attack. By mid-1987, these bands launched a new white power music organisation called Blood and Honour, with a magazine of the same name. In September it was officially launched at a London gig, with Skrewdriver, Brutal Attack, Sudden Impact, and No Remorse.

This became a new independent voice of RAC, and now welcomes bands from National Socialist, nationalist, patriotic, anti-Communist and white power views. By becoming politically independent, it supports many organisations and is not exclusive. The late Ian Stuart Donaldson, singer of the band Skrewdriver, was the founder and one of the prominent leaders of Blood and Honour until his death in 1993.

There are several official divisions of "Blood & Honour" e.g. in the United Kingdom, Australia, Slovenia, Romania, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Croatia. The German division was prohibited on September 14, 2000, as was the Spanish division in 2005 after the arrest and imprisonment of many of the main leaders.

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