History of antiifa

[maryjane48]

ntifa traces its roots to the 1920s and ’30s, when militant leftists battled fascists in the streets of Germany, Italy, and Spain. When fascism withered after World War II, antifa did too. But in the ’70s and ’80s, neo-Nazi skinheads began to infiltrate Britain’s punk scene. After the Berlin Wall fell, neo-Nazism also gained prominence in Germany. In response, a cadre of young leftists, including many anarchists and punk fans, revived the tradition of street-level antifascism.



In the late ’80s, left-wing punk fans in the United States began following suit, though they initially called their groups Anti-Racist Action, on the theory that Americans would be more familiar with fighting racism than fascism. According to Mark Bray, the author of the forthcoming Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, these activists toured with popular alternative bands in the ’90s, trying to ensure that neo-Nazis did not recruit their fans. In 2002, they disrupted a speech by the head of the World Church of the Creator, a white-supremacist group in Pennsylvania; 25 people were arrested in the resulting brawl.

By the 2000s, as the internet facilitated more transatlantic dialogue, some American activists had adopted the name antifa. But even on the militant left, the movement didn’t occupy the spotlight. To most left-wing activists during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years, deregulated global capitalism seemed like a greater threat than fascism.

Trump has changed that. For antifa, the result has been explosive growth. According to NYC Antifa, the group’s Twitter following nearly quadrupled in the first three weeks of January alone. (By summer, it exceeded 15,000.) Trump’s rise has also bred a new sympathy for antifa among some on the mainstream left. “Suddenly,” noted the antifa-aligned journal It’s Going Down, “anarchists and antifa, who have been demonized and sidelined by the wider Left have been hearing from liberals and Leftists, ‘you’ve been right all along.’ ” An article in The Nation argued that “to call Trumpism fascist” is to realize that it is “not well combated or contained by standard liberal appeals to reason.” The radical left, it said, offers “practical and serious responses in this political moment.”



Antifascists call such actions defensive. Hate speech against vulnerable minorities, they argue, leads to violence against vulnerable minorities. But Trump supporters and white nationalists see antifa’s attacks as an assault on their right to freely assemble, which they in turn seek to reassert. The result is a level of sustained political street warfare not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s. A few weeks after the attacks in San Jose, for instance, a white-supremacist leader announced that he would host a march in Sacramento to protest the attacks at Trump rallies. Anti-Fascist Action Sacramento called for a counterdemonstration; in the end, at least 10 people were stabbed.


ortland offers perhaps the clearest glimpse of where all of this can lead. The Pacific Northwest has long attracted white supremacists, who have seen it as a haven from America’s multiracial East and South. In 1857, Oregon (then a federal territory) banned African Americans from living there. By the 1920s, it boasted the highest Ku Klux Klan membership rate of any state.

In 1988, neo-Nazis in Portland killed an Ethiopian immigrant with a baseball bat. Shortly thereafter, notes Alex Reid Ross, a lecturer at Portland State University and the author of Against the Fascist Creep, anti-Nazi skinheads formed a chapter of Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice. Before long, the city also had an Anti-Racist Action group.


When antifascists forced the cancellation of the 82nd Avenue of Roses Parade, Trump supporters responded with a “March for Free Speech.” Among those who attended was Jeremy Christian, a burly ex-con draped in an American flag, who uttered racial slurs and made Nazi salutes. A few weeks later, on May 25, a man believed to be Christian was filmed calling antifa “a bunch of punk *bleep*.”

The next day, Christian boarded a light-rail train and began yelling that “colored people” were ruining the city. He fixed his attention on two teenage girls, one African American and the other wearing a hijab, and told them “to go back to Saudi Arabia” or “kill themselves.” As the girls retreated to the back of the train, three men interposed themselves between Christian and his targets. “Please,” one said, “get off this train.” Christian stabbed all three. One bled to death on the train. One was declared dead at a local hospital. One survived.


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[averagejoe]

The heading of this thread should be the REAL history of antifa....

Oh yes....antifa back in 1920 and 1930's puppets of Moscow!

Working back then to establish a World Soviet using useful idiot leftists in Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Hungary, and the rest of Europe.....that's the history of antifa.

Now it's job is to destroy America.

[maryjane48]

Oh yes....antifa back in 1920 and 1930's puppets of Moscow!

Working back then to establish a World Soviet using useful idiot leftists in Germany, Italy, Spain, Finland, Hungary, and the rest of Europe.....that's the history of antifa.

Now it's job is to destroy America.

they took on nazis then and continue now. *removed*

[Ka-El]

Now it's job is to destroy America.

So sorry about your ethnostate joe.

[averagejoe]

How many unarmed Priests and Nuns were killed before and during of the Spanish Civil War by your antifa heroes?

Answer:


By the way, in one pictures your comrades are shooting a statue of Jesus the Christ. Nice heroes....



https://providencemag.com/2016/03/spani ... -survivor/

[averagejoe]

The real start of antifa was in Russia in 1916 at the first Communist International (Comintern) when they devised a plan to make the World Soviet......all your Soviet heroes were there!

The job of antifa is to spread world revolution....by any means possible.

[Even Steven]

Since when is fighting Nazis is a bad thing?

[averagejoe]

Since when is fighting Nazis is a bad thing?

Nazi's started when Moscow dispatched their Soviet revolutionaries thugs around the world back in the 1910's.

Germany was next to become Soveitized after Russia.....

How the heck do you think Finland was created in 1919?

Fighting your antifa heroes.....

How the heck did Bavaria become a Soviet Republic in 1919? Revolution by your antifa heroes.

How do you think Hungary became a Soviet Republic in 1919? Revolution by your antifa heroes.

antifa is the international fighting arm of Communism.

[Even Steven]

antifa is the international fighting arm of Communism.

LOL ok there Mr. McCarthy, I think days of "Evil communists are coming" are long gone.

Let's focus on something more evil - like Nazis and how kicking their *bleep* is a good thing.

[The Green Barbarian]

Since when is fighting Nazis is a bad thing?

since when is being a communist a good thing?

[averagejoe]

No this about the history of antifa.

Thread: History of antiifa

Am I hitting a little close to home?

[maryjane48]

No this about the history of antifa.

Thread: History of antiifa

Am I hitting a little close to home?

*removed* antifa is exactly what the acronym stands for . you seem to be pro nazi .

[averagejoe]

No this about the history of antifa.

Thread: History of antiifa

Am I hitting a little close to home?

*removed* antifa is exactly what the acronym stands for . you seem to be pro nazi .

Actually no. The NSDAP died in the bunker back in 45......

I like to correct people who put crap for history by using actual history to correct there assumptions.

Yes Anti-Fascism.

It was started by the Russian Communist Party in 1916 at the Comintern World Congress to further there objectives of setting the world on fire thru revolution to all the countries of the world.....

Soviet Coat of Arms....checkout the hammer and scycle on top of the world.

[Even Steven]

since when is being a communist a good thing?

I don't see communists on the news, but I see some good old fashioned Nazis. So somebody has a conspiracy theory about about Antifa, I have one too how Starbucks stores are really a part of Crab People invasion from Mars and they're here to enslave us.

Do you really want to be defending Nazis? Hmmmmm.....is somebody a bit sympathetic about plight of the White Nation?

Makes me wonder if we have some Nazi sympathisers here.

[maryjane48]

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/anti ... y-cold-war


*removed* fighting the nazi started in germany

not russia. socialism and leftist thinking isnt a russia idea its a world idea . its why we had ww1 and ww2 . by trying to paint antifa as russian is painting yourself as a nazi supporter
. . if your ok with that so be it but your not wanted in canada nor your ideogy . we will resist nazism at every turn and if we have to root you out and stick you in jail we will .