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, “Emails: Breitbart editor pledges to do ‘dirty work’ for Bannon, smears Ivanka”
This is not the first time the anonymous email prankster, who tweets under the name @SINON_REBORN and describes himself as a “lazy anarchist,” has pulled a stunt like this. In July, the person fooled top White House officials into thinking he was other officials, causing a stir in the West Wing. At the time, press […]
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 […]
Phoenix New Times, “Antifas, Bikers for Trump, and Other Groups Planning to Protest Trump’s Phoenix Rally”
“They want to build a white ethno-state in the US,” their website says. “Indigenous people, immigrants, anarchists, and other have fought white nationalists, neo-nazis, and anti-immigrant zealots in the streets for years in Arizona.” Continue Reading
Axios, “Ben Sasse doubts if Trump can calm the nation after more violence”
“I expect that violence will come when white supremacists and the alt-right fight anarchist groups aligned with the extreme left.” Continue Reading
Tucson.com, ” Tim Steller: Self-appointed ‘militias’ pose danger in fraught times “
Now, when it comes to misbehaving at demonstrations, the “militia” members have a better record so far than the left-wing troublemakers known as “Antifa,” for anti-fascist. These people descend from the old black bloc anarchists who liked to smash store windows in cities where big events were occurring, like the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting […]
Pensacola News Journal, “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 police, […]
Los Angeles Times, “After Virginia violence, far right and white nationalists turn to a familiar target: California”
Some of the biggest clashes have been in Berkeley, where a swath of far-right combatants ranging from ardent supporters of President Trump to avowed white nationalists have engaged in rolling street brawls with masked anti-fascists and anarchists who also see violence as the only way to defeat their rivals. Continue Reading
Raw Story, “Charlottesville is not an aberration — it’s Trump’s strategy to stay in power”
The heroes in this story are the Heather Heyers: antifa, anarchists, socialists and Black Lives Matter who put their lives on the line. Dr. Cornel West described how in Charlottesville, after police had pulled back, he and a small group, many clergy, “would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists […]
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 […]