Vogue, “At 87, Dolores Huerta Is Finally Getting Her Due”
I think there are some people who might be taking advantage of the situation. I wish I could talk to them. I would say, “Look, don’t do that.” When you do that, you’re actually going to the other side. You’re joining the neo-Nazis. Not only that, but we always have a lot of infiltrators, and […]
Berkeleyside, “On heels of rally, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín condemns ‘violent extremism’”
The antifa demonstrators belong to a far-left, largely anarchist, contingent that believes fascism is burgeoning and that preventing it often requires force. When a few protesters on the right showed up at Civic Center Park, antifa activists and some others chased them out and sometimes beat them. Their actions have been derided by many along […]
The Daily Beast, “Why Antifa Nazi-Punching Is Just a Gift to the Right”
To many on the right—especially Donald Trump loyalists and devotees of white nationalist YouTube personalities—the black-clad anarchists known as Antifa represent the coming of a Stalinist dictatorship. To a sizable portion of the political left and center, the sight of tiki torch-wielding white supremacists marching through Charlottesville, Virginia earlier this month portends a future of […]
The Washington Post, “Black-clad antifa members attack peaceful right-wing demonstrators in Berkeley”
Their faces hidden behind black bandannas and hoodies, about 100 anarchists and antifa— “anti-fascist” — members barreled into a protest Sunday afternoon in Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park. Continue Reading
ABC 7 Bay Area, “VIDEO: Liberal shields young Trump fan during Berkeley protest”
The calm before the melee gave Noyes a chance to speak with an Antifa member, a college student, and anarchist who said, “I look like I’m ready to fight,” though he told us he’s not there for violence. He couldn’t however, say the same for his friends. Continue Reading
Business Insider, “A former white supremacist has a potentially unpopular message for how to stop extremist movements”
The rise has coincided with increased activism against those groups, most prominently by the so-called antifa movement. The decentralized movement, which includes a mixture of anarchists, socialists, communists, and other far-left activists, has taken a direct-action approach to combat far-right groups. Continue Reading
The Washington Post, “Analysis: A Trump supporter was sucker-punched by a counterprotester. Why isn’t it a hate crime?”
Following the incident, Maxwell wrote that he had been punched in the face by “ANTIFA,” a far-left political movement characterized as anarchists and antifascists. “My name is RC Maxwell and I am a victim of leftist violence,” Maxwell wrote Tuesday on the website Liberty Writers. Continue Reading
Los Angeles Times, “Op-Ed: The best way to fight white supremacists: Ignore them”
The neo-Nazis in our midst are outcasts who do not deserve the attention of reasonable citizens who seek measured debate in the public sphere. Dressed in their helmets and capes, wielding sticks, they are like the extras of a bad dystopian staging of one of Shakespeare’s war plays. They are looking for their fellow actors, […]
Newsweek, “Is ‘Mass Nonviolent Action’ Needed to Fight White Supremacists? Civil Rights Hero John Lewis Speaks Out”
“You don’t need to get out in the street with a mask and a baseball bat. For a lot of people, that’s scary,” Vysotsky says. Anarchists and Antifa, however, use violence as “strategic self-defense,” he says. “They tactically see nonviolent responses to [the alt-right] as giving the supremacists what they want—subjects for their violence—so they […]
ABC 7 (DC), “Antifa, far-right clashes raise questions about violence as a political tool”
The Anti-fascist movement, or Antifa, have been part of the European political landscape since World War II. In recent decades, the group has predominantly centered in western Europe, in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the U.K. Their ideology is broadly anti-capitalist, anarchist and anti-fascist in the most general sense of opposing centralized state control and anything […]