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Dartmouth College historian Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, credits Anti-Racist Action (ARA) as the precursor of modern antifa groups in the United States. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In the late 1980s and 1990s, ARA activists toured with popular punk rock and skinhead bands in order to prevent Klansmen , neo-Nazis and other assorted ...
Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was a militant anti-fascist organisation, founded in the UK in 1985 by a wide range of anti-racist and anti-fascist organisations. It was active in fighting far-right organisations, particularly the National Front and British National Party .
The formation of Antifaschistische Aktion in 1932 indicated a shift away from the Third Period policies, as fascism came to be recognised as a more serious threat (the two red flags on its logo symbolized Communists in unity with socialists [27]), leading up to the 1934 and 1935 adoption of a popular front policy of anti-fascist unity with non ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 February 2025. Opposition to fascism An Italian partisan in Florence, 14 August 1944, during the liberation of Italy Part of a series on Anti-fascism Interwar Ethiopia Black Lions Central Europe Arbeiter-Schutzbund Republikanischer Schutzbund Socialist Action Germany Antifaschistische Aktion Black ...
A June 2020 study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies of 893 terrorism incidents in the United States since 1994 found one attack staged by an anti-fascist that led to a fatality (the 2019 Tacoma attack, in which the attacker, who identified as an anti-fascist, was killed by police), while attacks by white supremacists or ...
The name was subsequently used by anti-fascist groups in several other countries. Antifascistisk aktion (AFA) was founded in Sweden in 1993. AFA is a part of the "autonomous" (autonoma in Swedish, from autonomist Marxism ) subculture, which revolves around many forms of leftist activism like antifascism, environmentalism and animal rights activism.
Police across North Texas have had a number of run-ins with neo-Nazis who distribute flyers and show up at public events. One used a fake name to speak before the Fort Worth City Council.
More recently, the symbol has been appropriated by American anti-fascist movements, along with flags historically derived from the German Communist Party's Antifaschistische Aktion. [16] Antifa opposed the Iron Front, whom they regarded as bourgeois and fascist , as the Three Arrows logo was used to represent resistance against Antifa's ...