This article needs additional references or sources for verification. Please help this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.(June 2007) | Rock Against Communism (RAC) started out as series of white power rock music concerts in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s, and is also a name for the subsequent music genre.[1][2] Despite its name, RAC song lyrics rarely focuses on the specific topic of anti-communism. Instead, RAC lyrics typically feature nationalist, neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic and racist themes. Musically, the RAC genre is mostly comprised of Oi!, punk rock, heavy metal, southern rock and rock and roll.[citation needed] Image File history File links Rac_b. ...
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White Power is an ideology and a political slogan describing the views of white supremacists. ...
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Eugène Delacroixs Liberty Leading the People, symbolising French nationalism during the July Revolution 1830. ...
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Racism is the prejudice that members of one race are intrinsically superior or inferior to members of other races. ...
Oi! is a working class street-level subgenre of punk rock that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s. ...
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Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music. ...
Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ...
History
The Rock Against Communism (RAC) movement was started in the United Kingdom in late 1978 by far right activists associated with the National Front (NF), notably Ian Anderson. It was intended to counter the influence of — and was clearly named after — the successful Rock Against Racism organisation. The first RAC concert was in Leeds, England in 1978, featuring the Nazi punk bands The Dentists and The Ventz.[3] RAC held another concert in spring 1983, which was headlined by white power skinhead band Skrewdriver. After that, RAC concerts were held more often. RAC concerts were usually held in secret, due to direct action by groups such as Anti-Fascist Action and the Anti-Nazi League. They were often headlined by Skrewdriver, and featured other white power bands such as Brutal Attack, Skullhead, Squadron, Sudden Impact, Ovaltinees, Lionheart, No Remorse, Violent Storm and Battlezone. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into far right. ...
In the United Kingdom, the British National Front (most commonly called the National Front or NF) is a far right political party that had its major political activities during the 1970s and 1980s. ...
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Rock Against Racism (RAR) was a campaign set up by Red Saunders, Roger Huddle and others in winter 1976. ...
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Two Punk Front members (1978). ...
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Skrewdriver was a punk rock band formed in Norway in 1976 by Emil Sandin. ...
Direct action is a form of political activism which seeks immediate remedy for perceived ills, as opposed to indirect actions such as electing representatives who promise to provide remedy at some later date. ...
Anti-Fascist Action (or AFA) is a British left-wing organisation founded in 1986. ...
Anti-Nazi League logo The Anti-Nazi League (ANL) was an organisation set up on the initiative of the Socialist Workers Party with some sponsorship (and a few small financial donations) from some trade unions and the endorsement of a list of prominent people in 1977 to oppose the rise...
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In the mid-1980s, summer concerts were often held at the Suffolk home of Edgar Griffin, father of Nick Griffin, a National Front organiser who later became the national chair of the British National Party. By the late 1980s, the RAC name had given way to the White Noise Club (another NF-based group), and later Blood and Honour — which was set up by Skrewdriver frontman Ian Stuart Donaldson and his friend Nicky Crane when they fell out with the NF leadershipt. Suffolk (pronounced ) is a large historic and modern non-metropolitan county in East Anglia, England. ...
Edgar Vincent Griffin is a British Conservative politician. ...
Nicholas John Nick Griffin (born 1959) is a British far-right politician. ...
The British National Party (BNP) is a white nationalist political party in the United Kingdom. ...
Blood and Honour logo, featuring Ian Stuart Donaldson. ...
Ian Stuart Donaldson (August 11, 1957-September 24, 1993), commonly known as Ian Stuart, was the founder of Skrewdriver, a British punk rock and skinhead band. ...
Nicola Vincenzio Nicky Crane was born on May 21, 1958. ...
As hardcore punk music became more popular in the 1990s and 2000s, many white power bands took on a more hardcore-influenced sound. Bands leading this hate-core trend have included Angry Aryans, Blue Eyed Devils and H8Machine. Also popular among white racialists is national socialist black metal (NSBM) which is a racist form of black metal. The lyrics often focus on Norse mythology and a desire to return to a romanticized pre-Christian Europe. Bands in this genre include Graveland and Nokturnal Mortum. Also, white racist hip hop acts such as Aryan Duo are beginning to spring up in Europe.[4] This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
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Norse, Viking or Scandinavian mythology comprises the indigenous pre-Christian religion, beliefs and legends of the Scandinavian peoples, including those who settled on Iceland, where most of the written sources for Norse mythology were assembled. ...
Graveland is a Polish black metal band which was formed in 1992 by Rob Darken (born Robert Fudali). ...
Nokturnal Mortum is a NS folk black metal band from Ukraine, and is one of the major black metal bands from eastern Europe, along with Graveland. ...
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Notable RAC acts The Deaths Head emblem similar to skull and crossbones, often used as the insignia of the Gestapo The (contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei; secret state police) was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. ...
Cover of the album Rock Gegen Oben Landser was a neo-Nazi rock band from Germany. ...
Macht und Ehre is a neo-Nazi rock band based in Berlin, Germany. ...
RaHoWa (sometimes RAHOWA) is a defunct Canadian White supremacist band with a loosely based Neo-Classical metal style. ...
Skrewdriver was a punk rock band formed in Norway in 1976 by Emil Sandin. ...
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