ABC New Orleans, “Another Confederate monument vandalized on Jeff Davis Parkway”
Just days after the last of four Confederate monuments slated for removal came down in New Orleans, an apparent anarchist group that calls itself the Real Meow Meow Liberation Front – Professional Party Planning Committee has vandalized another monument that pays tribute to a Confederate poet and priest. Continue Reading
Mic, “America’s militia movement found its next generation of soldiers: teenage 4chan trolls”
With the emergence of anarchist black blocs, however, the militias have a more tangible foe to fight with in the streets. “Antifa is now helping to galvanize and keep alive the patriot movement,” Rhodes said in an interview. “The movement tends to die off during Republican administrations. Antifa, in a way, is a godsend.” Continue […]
Al Jazeera, “From NATO to Antifa: One Afghan’s journey to Greece”
The Antifa activists – comprising anarchists, communists and other anti-racists – shout slogans against Golden Dawn in Greek. “Not in parliament, not anywhere,” chants a group of demonstrators carrying red flags. “Smash fascism everywhere.” Continue Reading
Mother Jones, “A Punch in the Face Was Just the Start of the Alt-Right’s Attack on a Berkeley Protester”
On Saturday, April 15, Emily Rose Marshall drove up to Berkeley, California, from Los Angeles with a group of friends who were part of the anarchist Oak Roots Collective. They had heard about the “free speech” rally being held in Berkeley by an array of Donald Trump supporters, militiamen, and white supremacists. “We saw this […]
Chicago Tribune, “Battle for Berkeley: Will Ann Coulter spark another clash?”
The campus and the city itself have become a target for militant right-wing organizations that have clashed in recent months with militant left-wing or anarchist groups from the San Francisco Bay Area. Continue Reading
The Stranger, “It’s 2017 and American Nazis Are Still Cowards”
In a similar vein, when an anarchist punched white nationalist Richard Spencer, and the propriety of punching Nazis became a matter of debate, 1940s vintage cartoon panels of Captain America punching Adolf Hitler got memed far and wide. Continue Reading
The Huffington Post, “NRA Makes Seamless Transition From Insurrectionism To Fascism At CPAC”
His eliminationist rhetoric was like something out of an old John Birch Society pamphlet: Right now we face a gathering of forces that are willing to use violence against us … Anarchists, Marxists, Communists, and the whole rest of the Left Wing socialist brigade … They’re willing to engage in criminal violence to get what […]
Al Jazeera, “US anti-fascists: ‘We can make racists afraid again'”
Largely made up of anarchists and, to a lesser extent, activists ascribing to various strands of Marxism, anti-fascist activists decided to adopt the tactic of physical confrontations against white supremacists from across the spectrum: from neo-Nazi punks to the resurgent Ku Klux Klan. The Anti-Racist Action (ARA) was established in 1988 in Minneapolis as one […]
Wired, “Neo-Nazis Face a New Foe Online and IRL: the Far-Left Antifa”
They may well indeed express more egalitarian ideals than neo-Nazis (who doesn’t, really?), but they’re also anarchists prone to property destruction and online abuse. Worse, by giving as good as they get, they double down on political polarization, driving the national narrative even further from center. Continue Reading