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Setbacks for Blood and Honour (1)

01 January 1991

Setbacks for Blood and Honour
artdoc May=1993

Brothers, Roy and Kevin Johnson, who ran Screwdriver Services,
an outlet for the fascist Blood and Honour music outfit, have
been jailed for six months for incitement to racial hatred. The
brothers, who are also both members of the Ku Klux Klan, were
arrested in 1990 following a raid on their home, in Essex, after
police intercepted quantities of racist material from the United
States at Stansted Airport.
While Blood and Honour have made some headway in organising in
the north of England they have had little success in London since
their abortive attempt to organise a concert in May 1989. More
recently they attempted a revival by putting on an international
gig in the capital September 1992 which resulted in the `Battle
of Waterloo' when anti-fascists forced them to flee under police
protection. In the past year they have attempted to capitalise
on the growth of Nazi violence in Germany.
In Germany a court is seeking the extradition of three members
of the Blood and Honour band, Screwdriver, after they failed to
appear on charges of causing grievous bodily harm. The charges
followed the arrest of members of the band for the stabbing of
a young German in Cottbus in September 1991, when the group had
planned to play at a concert for nazis from across Europe (see
Statewatch 5).
At Bruehl, near Cologne, an international distribution firm for
neo-nazi and skinhead music, Rock-O-Rama, was raided by police
as part of a crackdown on musicians who incite racial hatred. A
French record label, Rebelles Europeens, has recently opened a
British outlet.
CARF March/April 1993; Guardian 31.3.93; Independent 4.2.93

Statewatch vol 3 no 2 March-April 1993