Rock Against Communism

Rock Against Communism (English for, Rock Against Communism '), better known by the abbreviations RAC or RAC, is a campaign under the bands from the area of ​​the right rock in 1977 were active for the first time. This is not an own style of music, but it serves as a self-imposed collective term of the right-wing / neo-Nazi rock music scene. The aim was to inspire through music skinheads and soccer fans for Nazi ideas.

The first RAC concerts were in 1977 organized by the far-right British National Front. You should make a conscious counterpoint to the anti-fascist movement in music Rock Against Racism. 1982 that Ian Stuart Donaldson, singer of the neo-Nazi band Skrewdriver, of the concept. Skrewdriver played a few concerts with the slogan " Rock against Communism ", other bands followed. Closely linked with RAC was the foundation of neo-Nazi label White Noise Club by Ian Stuart and the National Front activists Joseph Pearce. The neo-Nazi Blood -and- Honour movement has its roots in the RAC.

In the 1980s, the movement also spread to other European countries, at first mainly to Scandinavia. In Sweden in 1986 founded a small RAC organization under the motto "Rock mot Kommunismen " ( RMK, rock against communism ').

Even in the U.S., RAC spread in the early 1980s from the environment of the hardcore punk and skinhead scene and brought forth, among other groups such as Youth Defense League, Max Resist and the Hooligans, Mid Town Boot Boys and Bully Boys in whose environment in the late 1980s, the neo-Nazi Hammerskin nation was born.

"RAC " is still a popular reference point of neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing bands. In the German-speaking countries, the term RAC is now mostly used to characterize the Oi! -Heavy British neo-Nazi rock of the 1980s. The RAC movement can therefore be regarded as a link between the open neo-Nazi, politically ambitious music scene and politically neutral understanding skinheads and Oi! Skins.