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 […]
NBC Austin, TX, “Ag. Comm. Sid Miller criticizes Six Flags’ removal of Confederate flag”
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller — the cowboy-hat wearing Republican known for wading deep into partisan and cultural divides — is furious with the Six Flags amusement park chain, calling its decision to take down the Confederate flag and four others that had flown over the park part of a “militant, anarchist movement sweeping our […]
Fox News, “Mike Huckabee: Abortion Clinics Are as Offensive as Confederate Flags”
“I’m okay if we want to go through the process of public meetings and city officials taking the statues down,” Huckabee continued. “What we can’t do, is have anarchists go tear down the statues because they’re impatient with politicians doing it.” Continue Reading
USA Today, “Trump is right — violent extremists on both sides are a threat”
Everyone understands that the neo-Nazi and KKK groups are composed of violent extremists. The apparent blind spot is with the anarchist/socialist far left, which is puzzling given recent history. Take for example the radicals who toppled the Confederate statue in Durham, NC, who were affiliated with the Worker’s World Party (WWP). Their program includes disarming […]
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 […]
NBC Louisville, “Bevin calls removing Confederate monuments ‘sanitization of history,’ then denies using the phrase”
“Doesn’t matter if it comes from a white supremacist,” Bevin said. “It doesn’t matter if it comes from an anarchist; it doesn’t matter if it comes from a Black Lives Matter person. Wherever hatred and bigotry comes from, it should be called out. It should be scorned and shut down. Continue Reading
ABC 7 Washington, D.C., “A new generation of American extremists is on the rise, experts say”
The landscape for domestic U.S. extremism is dominated by far-right groups, including KKK, neo-Nazi and other racial supremacists, as well as religious extremists and military. On the left, the violent extremist groups have historically been centered around anarchist, communist, environmentalist and black nationalist groups, accounting for fewer violent attacks. Continue Reading
New York Daily News, “The 1920 Wall Street bombing: Authorities blamed agitators for the deadly explosion amid the first Red Scare”
Authorities kept unmasking Red plots all through 1921. NEW YORK ANARCHISTS REORGANIZED, the papers said. REDS OF AMERICA UNITED UNDER ONE HEAD. AGENTS SOWING CLASS HATRED, DISSENSION, SABOTAGE. One million immigrants continued to arrive in the U.S. every year. At least 15 million more, warned U.S. Immigration Commissioner Frederick Wallis, were certain to come unless […]
The Washington Post, “Fear of ‘violent left’ preceded events in Charlottesville”
“Right now, we face a gathering of forces that are willing to use violence against us,” warned LaPierre. “If the violent left brings their terror to our communities, our neighborhoods, or into our homes, they will be met with the resolve and the strength and the full force of American freedom in the hands of […]
The Daily Beast, “Long Island’s O.G. Anti-Immigrant Politician”
The list of what are at least intemperate remarks made by Levy is long. He called a respected immigrants rights organization a group of “communists” and “anarchists.” At one event he joked about deporting the kitchen staff. Most famously, he decried “anchor babies” and said falsely that a local hospital was on the verge of […]