Romper, “What Is Antifa? The Anti-Fascist Protestors Are Being Blamed For Violence In Charlottesville”
Antifa is not just an American movement — it’s international. You will often see Antifa referred to as the “black bloc,” because they use an anarchist tactic of wearing all black to obscure their identities at protests, such as the G20 in Hamburg this summer. (Though “black bloc” members are usually ardently anarchists, whereas Antifa […]
Quartz, “The complete story of what happened in Charlottesville, according to the alt-right”
Commenters on numerous alt-right sites believe the counter-protesters were “hired professional anarchists” funded and “bused in” by George Soros. “[Police] were allowing Antifa, who were armed with bricks—they were recorded throwing bricks at people—and pepper spray, and Molotov cocktails, and tear gas—they were allowing these people essentially to march throughout the city, they gave them […]
The Mercury News (CA), “California right-winger behind Charlottesville violence”
Damigo told KQED he hit her “because she was a threat; because she was going to attack his friends; because she was a member of Antifa, a leftist confederation of socialists and anarchists — some of whom have committed acts of violence and arson.” Continue Reading
USA Today, “Trump spoke of the ‘alt-left.’ Is that a thing?”
Those street battles began again in the 1970s and 80s as neo-Nazis and skinheads clashed with groups of punk music fans, anarchists and other leftists. Beinart writes that the movement shifted its focus to battling global capitalism during the 1990s and 2000s, when there were violent protests against meetings of the World Trade Organization and […]
New York Daily News, “More far-right rallies expected after Charlottesville violence”
The Portland, Ore.,-based group Patriot Prayer, which has a penchant for trolling anarchists, obtained permission to gather at San Francisco’s Crissy Field, according to The Mercury News. The same group clashed with counterprotesters on Sunday in Seattle. Continue Reading
The Huffington Post, “The Alt-Right’s ‘Tomorrow Belongs To Me’”
The coalition of Anarchists, Black Lives Matter; even Red Necks (yes, they have their own anti-racist group, RedNeck Revolt), demonstrated that despite what White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi’s believe, the future does not belong to them. Continue Reading
Democracy Now!, “Cornel West & Rev. Traci Blackmon: Clergy in Charlottesville Were Trapped by Torch-Wielding Nazis”
The next day, for example, those 20 of us who were standing, many of them clergy, we would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists and the antifascists who approached, over 300, 350 antifascists. We just had 20. And we’re singing “This Little light of Mine,” you know what I […]
North County Public Radio, “Stefanik condemns “bigotry,” calls white supremacy “repugnant””
Many conservatives have focused their anger not on white supremacists, Nazis, and Klan activists, but on left-wing protesters, including more militant anarchist or “Antifa” groups. Continue Reading
Telegram & Gazette (MA), “Anarchists show up at anti-racism rally at Worcester City Hall”
WORCESTER – Masked anarchists hijacked a peaceful anti-racism rally at City Hall Plaza on Sunday, tying up traffic while marching down Main Street shouting epithets at “racist cops.” Continue Reading
Newsweek, “What Is AntiFa? Anti-Fascism Protesters and White Power Groups Were Battling Long Before Charlottesville”
“Since antifa is heavily composed of anarchists, its activists place little faith in the state, which they consider complicit in fascism and racism. They prefer direct action: They pressure venues to deny white supremacists space to meet. They pressure employers to fire them and landlords to evict them. And when people they deem racists and […]