The New Yorker, “An Intimate History of Antifa”
According to Bray, antifa (pronounced an-tee-fah) “can variously be described as a kind of ideology, an identity, a tendency or milieu, or an activity of self-defense.” It’s a leaderless, horizontal movement whose roots lie in various leftist causes—Communism, anarchism, Socialism, anti-racism. The movement’s profile has surged since antifa activists engaged in a wave of property […]
CNN, “Unmasking the leftist Antifa movement”
“There are people who were energized by Bernie (Sanders) that now are anarchists,” said an organizer of the website It’s Going Down, a newsblog for Antifa. “People are freaked out by a Trump regime, freaked out by the far-right. A lot of people saw neo-Nazi symbols. There’s a reason why people are becoming polarized. It’s […]
ABC News Baltimore, “Petition Calls On White House To Label This Far-Left Group Terrorists”
“Antifa,” shorthand for “anti-fascist” or “anti-fascist action,” is often a mix of far-left ideologies — communists, socialists, anarchists, and so on — with one unifying goal: to fight back against fascists and neo-Nazis “by any means necessary.” Continue Reading
Slate, “The Public Face of Antifa”
Antifa is sometimes used as a synonym for black bloc anarchists—the scruffy kids in black bandanas or balaclavas known for smashing Starbucks windows—but while the movements overlap, they’re not identical. Jenkins doesn’t wear a mask, and Laura is an upper-middle-class suburban woman with grown children. The movement appears to be growing rapidly under Trump, though […]
The New York Times, “Teaching Activities for: ‘Protesters Flood Streets, and Trump Offers a Measure of Praise’”
Those I spoke with appreciated the sentiment of the antifa, or anti-fascist, demonstrators who showed up in Charlottesville, members of an anti-racist group with militant and anarchist roots who are willing to fight people they consider fascists. “I would want to punch a Nazi in the nose, too,” Maria Stephan, a program director at the […]
CBS Boston, “Keller @ Large: Making A Joke Of The First Amendment”
It’s also not surprising that the crowd included a few hundred creepy wanna-be anarchists and others looking for trouble, who found it by roughing up a few Trump supporters and pointlessly confronting the cops. Continue Reading
The Village Voice, “From Charlottesville to Boston, Rightbloggers’ “Alt-Left” Story Falls Flat”
Maybe it had something to do with events outside the rally, too — like all those high-level defections, or little things like the group of NYPD officers who spoke up for Colin Kaepernick. Or maybe this was just the silence of bullies who suddenly found themselves outnumbered — not by black-clad cartoon anarchists, but by […]
Metro, “Slavery is good and special history, former Trump spokeswoman says”
Pierson told Fox News on Monday that “anarchists” want to topple Confederate statues, but Americans need reminders of their history, “both good and bad.” Continue Reading
Fox & Friends, “Katrina Pierson Calls Slavery ‘Good’ in Hilariously Awful Attempt to Defend Trump”
On one side was Pierson, a former spokesperson for the Trump campaign, who accused the Democratic leader of trying to “actually help these anarchists and these violent protesters tear down pieces of America, American culture, and American history.” Continue Reading
Tablet Magazine, “Dear Antifas: A Note About Your Ancestor”
Tresca was the Cold War anarcho-syndicalist. He was a super-radical who, even so, did not remove himself from the larger American system. My old friend Daniel Bell had the misfortune of seeing Tresca’s body on the sidewalk at Fifth Avenue and 15th Street, after the assassination, in January 1943. That was a terrible event. Tresca’s […]