Ian Stuart Donaldson - Definition and Overview

Ian Stuart is also a pseudonym used by Scottish author Alistair MacLean

Ian Stuart Donaldson (August 11, 1957 - September 24, 1993), also commonly known as Ian Stuart, was founder of the UK skinhead/punk band Skrewdriver.

Donaldson was brought up in Blackpool, UK, where he formed the band Skrewdriver in 1977. Skrewdriver eventually disbanded in 1979. However, Donaldson reformed them in 1982 with different backing players. The new Skrewdriver emerged as a "Racialist" band with connections to the far right Rock Against Communism (RAC) organization. Donaldson was also the leader of "Blood and Honour", a militant neo-Nazi organization distributing racist and neo-Nazi music and organizing concerts. He also released Patriotic Ballads vols. 1&2 backed by German racialist band Stigger covering traditional songs such as "Tomorrow Belongs to me" and "The green fields of France".

In 1992 Stuart was one of the principal organisers of a concert near Waterloo station in London. When anti-nazi groups heard of it, a protest was organized resulting in a near riot. His death in a car crash next year in Derbyshire was suspected by his friends and supporters to have been the result of a plot by the Security Service MI5 and the Police Special Branch.

See also

• Oi!

Further reading

• Diamond in the Dust: the Ian Stuart Biography (http://www.skrewdriver.org.uk/isdbook.html)
• 'White Noise', inside the international nazi skinhead scene; edited by Nick Lowles and Steve Silver, London 1998

External links

• A TRIBUTE TO IAN STUART (http://www.skrewdriver.org.uk/stuart.html) (from the Combat 18 Website)
• Neo-Nazi Skinheads and Racist Rock: Youth Subculture of Hate (http://www.adl.org/poisoning_web/racist_rock.asp)
• Fascism in the United Kingdom and Europe 1997 (http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/fascism.htm)
• http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/music_feb97.htm
• http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/stories/102002_story01.htm
• http://punkandoi.free.fr/skrewdriver_biography.htm
• http://skrewdriver.net/stuart.html
• http://stefan.sonic.tripod.com/skrewdriver.htm - The Complete Ian Stuart and Skrewdriver Discography Collection