Rose City Antifa activists with modified Red and black flag and Transgender flags in a protest against Patriot Prayer in 2017

The Antifa movement is a conglomeration of left wing autonomous, militant anti-fascist groups in the United States.

Quotes

  • [A]nti-fascism is an illiberal politics of social revolutionism applied to fighting the Far Right, not only literal fascists.
    The exceptional spectacle of anti-fascist organizers confronting Nazis is not enough to stem the tide of Trumpism. Moreover, even the success of such physical militancy relies in part on its public reception. Therefore, we must pair our focus on organized anti-fascism with an understanding of a deeper everyday anti-fascism that dictates the terrain upon which such struggles occur.
  • When confrontation shifts to the arena of violence, it's the toughest and most brutal who win – and we know who that is.
    It's a major gift to the Right, including the militant Right, who are exuberant.
  • Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an “ORGANIZATION OF TERROR.” Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!
  • You had a number of the courageous students, of all colors, at the University of Virginia who were protesting against the neofascists themselves. The neofascists had their own ammunition. And this is very important to keep in mind, because the police, for the most part, pulled back. The next day, for example, those 20 of us who were standing, many of them clergy, we would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists and the anti-fascists who approached, over 300, 350 anti-fascists. We just had 20.
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