Mother Jones, “A New Wave of Left-Wing Militants Is Ready to Rumble in Portland—and Beyond”
Redneck Revolt: This network, largely made up of anarchists and libertarians, is focused on anti-racist organizing among the white working class. Inspired by the Young Patriots—white Appalachian activists who allied with the Black Panthers in the late 1960s—the group now claims chapters in more than 30 regions. Redneck Revolt’s members can speak to their neighbors […]
OC Weekly, “Charges Dropped Against Pepper-Spraying Antifa Who Saved OC Weekly Reporter at Trump Rally”
We were the only newspaper to report the truth: that Trumpbros harassed, kicked, punched and intimidated the vastly-outnumbered anarchists and antifa who protested against them, and that said antifa used pepper spray only to defend OC Weekly reporters who were getting assaulted by white supremacists or to defend themselves from Trumpbros who were pummeling them while […]
BuzzFeed News, “Alt-Right Demonstrators Rally In Portland One Week After Train Stabbings”
One man on the alt-right side of the protest burned a black T-shirt with a symbol of anarchism, quite possibly aimed at the self-described anti-fascists — or antifa — protesters just feet away. Continue Reading
Oregon Public Broadcasting, “Dueling Portland Rallies Turn Chaotic In Wake Of TriMet Stabbings”
The black-clad, masked anarchists who have tussled with police at past events were handing out free ice cream at the start of the day, but by the end, they’d burned flags and some of the more extreme protestors had thrown bricks at police. Continue Reading
Daily Camera (CO), “1 arrested, several detained at Boulder rally by ‘western chauvinist’ group”
A man dressed in black with a mask over his face would not give his name, but he said that he wasn’t a member of an anti-fascist group or anarchist group but agrees with their philosophies. “We don’t engage in dialogue with fascists,” he said. “They use free speech and democracy to undermine free speech […]
Alexander Reid Ross: The Portland Killings Show Why We Need a Robust Antifascist Movement
The Portland Killings Show Why We Need a Robust Antifascist Movement Alexander Reid Ross, In These Times, June 2, 2017 The senseless killing of two Portlanders on public transit has shaken the nation. On Friday, May 26, a white nationalist named Jeremy Christian verbally assaulted two teenage women of color. When three men approached him […]
Associated Press, “California ‘anti-fascist’ activist charged with assault”
Police seized “flags, patches, pamphlets” and labels associated with “anti-fascist and anarchist political groups,” according to the complaint filed by prosecutors charging Clanton with four felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon and a misdemeanor charge of wearing a mask while committing a crime. Continue Reading
Cosmopolitan, “Cassandra Fairbanks Loved Bernie Sanders. Now She’s a Donald Trump Superfan.”
How a left-leaning anarchist and anti-rape activist became a leader of the far-right “Deplorable” movement. Continue Reading
The Daily Caller, “Richard Spencer Leads White Nationalist Demonstration In Front Of Virginia Robert E. Lee Monument”
It started Friday afternoon when a group of about 150 clad in white polos and white dresses formed a marching column called a “white bloc” — a response to the “black bloc” uniforms of anarcho-communist group Antifa — at MacGuffey Art Center and marched in military formation to Jackson Park where they turned about face […]
San Francisco Magazine, “Battle of the Bastards”
I took a seat in the back of the room and listened to a rambling discourse by one of the anonymous editors of It’s Going Down, a popular antifa website, on the dangers of the alt-right and “possibilities for resistance.” If Superman had Bizarro, his physical and moral inverse, then Stickman has this guy: a […]