{"id":45494,"date":"2019-09-16T20:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T10:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=45494"},"modified":"2019-09-18T14:30:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T04:30:09","slug":"white-supremacists-condemned-blood-honour-melbourne-october-12-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=45494","title":{"rendered":"‘White supremacists condemned’ : Blood & Honour, Melbourne (October 12, 2019)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Update<\/strong> (September 18, 2019) : The Age (‘Not now, not ever’: Demands to shut down Melbourne neo-Nazi concert<\/a>, Zach Hope, September 17, 2019) and ToneDeaf (A Neo-nazi concert has been announced for Melbourne and\u2026 can we, like, not?<\/a>, Mike Hohnen, September 16, 2019) have published articles about the gig.]<\/p>\n

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\nAbove<\/strong> : Members of the Southern Cross Hammerskins & feeder organisation Crew 38 (c. 2010).<\/p>\n

Last week, 7 News reported<\/a> that on Saturday, October 12 a ‘white power’ concert organised by Blood & Honour Australia will be taking place in Melbourne.<\/p>\n

Below are some comments in response.<\/p>\n

To begin with:<\/p>\n

1<\/strong>) The gig is being organised by two neo-Nazi grouplets: Blood & Honour (B&H) Australia — see<\/em> Blut Und Ehre<\/a> — and the Southern Cross Hammerskins (SCHS).<\/p>\n

2<\/strong>) The event is organised annually, on or about the anniversary of the death of B&H founder<\/a> Ian Stuart Donaldson (1957–1993). It’s been held in Melbourne, uninterrupted, for the last 25 years.<\/p>\n

3<\/strong>) The organisation and promotion of the gig is lawful activity.<\/p>\n

4<\/strong>) It’s a private affair, held at a non-disclosed venue, and attendees are vetted by organisers. Previous venues have included The Birmingham Hotel in Fitzroy, Melbourne Croatian Social Club (2007<\/a>), community centres, river cruises and (semi-)rural properties.<\/p>\n

5<\/strong>) The organisers are known to authorities, and accounts of the event are regularly published in the B&H zine.<\/p>\n

6<\/strong>) Fortress<\/a>, the headline act, is described in the report as a well-known band on the Australian ‘white power’ music scene.<\/em> That’s kinda sorta correct, however: there’s only a handful of WP bands in Australia; Fortress is Big In Japan<\/strike> Europe. Thus one of their last gigs was in Verona, Italy<\/a> to celebrate Hitler’s birthday (April 20), while the band has also played in Germany since reforming in 2017.<\/p>\n

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7<\/strong>) The report concludes by noting that: The Blood and Honour Australia group refuses to speak to journalists, believing the media is controlled by Jewish interests. Its chapter in Germany was banned in 2000 for promoting music that allegedly inspired a string of attacks on foreigners.<\/em><\/p>\n

The group’s refusal is a sensible policy, as there’s nothing to be gained from speaking to (((the media))), who regularly promote their events in any case. Further, and somewhat oddly, while B&H is banned in Germany<\/a> (2000), it’s also banned in Spain (2010) and Russia (2012) and earlier this year Canadian authorities proscribed it as a ‘terrorist’ organisation<\/a> (though this would appear to apply to the Combat 18 splinter). B&H\/C18 has also been linked<\/a> to the assassination of German politician Walter L\u00fcbcke in June of this year.<\/p>\n

As for the Hammerskins, they’re banned in Spain (2009) and Portugal (2010?). In 2016<\/a> in Portugal, 20 members were arrested and charged with hate crimes, attempted murder and robbery; in 2017, German members of the Hammerskins attacked a gig in Mallorca<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, the most serious act of violence carried out by a Hammerskin was the massacre<\/a> of Sikhs in Wisconsin in 2012.<\/p>\n

8<\/strong>) I haven’t paid all that much attention to B&H\/SCHS in the last few years (it’s pretty much steady-as-she-goes) but in September last year I did note<\/a> that:<\/p>\n

Pioneering Aussie reich \u2018n\u2019 rollers Fortress have recorded a new album: \u2018Brothers of the Storm\u2019. The release comes in the wake of renewed touring by the band in Europe, with the boys playing a Hammerskins event in Frankreich (FRA) on March 18 last year, the annual memorial to Skrewydriver Ian Stuart Donaldson in Melbourne (AUS) on October 14, 2017 and another bonehead gig in Queensland on July 21, 2018.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

9<\/strong>) The gig regularly attracts anywhere from 50 to 100 neo-Nazis. They spend the weekend partying in Melbourne and may sometimes be found doing so in English theme pubs, German restaurants and the like. So from October 11-13, please be aware they will be about … See<\/em> : Dahlonega rally organizer on probation for 2016 assault in local bar<\/a>, Chris Joyner, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, September 13, 2019 (A police report from that night describes Doles as the leader of a group of Hammerskins, a racist skinhead gang with chapters around the nation, who fought with other bar patrons. According to a witness statement, Doles \u201cwent wild and began striking people indiscriminately\u201d in response to a patron who said they hated skinheads, but then fled the scene when police were called and had to be tracked down near the campus of the University of North Georgia.<\/em>).<\/p>\n

For news on the many crimes & misdemenours of the Hammerskins in the US, see<\/em> : SPLC Hatewatch on Hammerskins<\/a>; see also<\/em> : A Brief History Of Neo-Nazi Music In Australia<\/a> (December 2, 2010).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Update (September 18, 2019) : The Age (‘Not now, not ever’: Demands to shut down Melbourne neo-Nazi concert, Zach Hope, September 17, 2019) and ToneDeaf (A Neo-nazi concert has been announced for Melbourne and\u2026 can we, like, not?, Mike Hohnen, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,16,11,9],"tags":[62,411,554,479,1001,475,1096,230,2606,1000,231,63],"class_list":["post-45494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-fascism","category-media","category-music","category-state","tag-blood-honour","tag-blood-honour-australia","tag-blood-and-honour","tag-blood-and-honour-australia","tag-boneheads","tag-crew-38","tag-fortress","tag-hammerskins","tag-neo-nazi","tag-neo-nazi-skinheads","tag-scott-mcguinness","tag-southern-cross-hammerskins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-bPM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45494"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45513,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45494\/revisions\/45513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}