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- The Antifa movement has origins in several European countries in the early 20th century, particularly Germany and Italy, when fascism was a real and urgent concern. In Germany, it began during the rise of Hitler and it was far from perfect in its resistance to the rise of Nazism.
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Aug 30, 2017 · Today, the ideological collective known as antifa evokes the historical struggles of the 20th century against fascists in Italy and Nazi Germany to explain its 21st-century existence.
The antifa movement grew after the 2016 United States presidential election. As of August 2017, approximately 200 groups existed, of varying sizes and levels of activity. It is particularly active in the Pacific Northwest, such as in Portland, Oregon.
May 11, 2024 · The roots of antifa are generally traced to the interwar period and specifically to resistance movements provoked by the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany. In the interwar period, fascist movements emerged throughout Europe and were usually met in each country by a corresponding antifascist movement.
Nov 8, 2018 · The artist behind 'The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements' on what you should know about the movement's past.
Jul 2, 2020 · "Antifa" takes its name from Antifaschistische Aktion — "anti-fascist action," in English — a phrase that the Stalinist Communist Party of Germany adopted in 1932, as the Nazis...
Some Antifa groups date the origins of their movement to fights against European fascists in the 1920s and 1930s. Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, says the modern...
Oct 16, 2020 · Antifa has earned its reputation for sporadic violence. But many other rumors about antifa have been spun from whole cloth, sometimes by people later identified as right-wing extremists.