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11#ANTIFA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(United_States)
Antifa (/ænˈtiːfə, ˈæntiˌfɑː/) is a predominantly left-wing, anti-fascist political activist movement in the United States comprising a diverse array of autonomous groups that aim to achieve their objectives through the use of direct action rather than through policy reform. ANTIFA activists engage in protest tactics such as digital activism and militancy, involving property damage, physical violence and harassment against fascists, racists and those on the far-right.
Ideology
Individuals involved in the movement tend to hold anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist views, subscribing to a range of left-wing ideologies such as anarchism, communism, Marxism, social democracy and socialism. Both the name ANTIFA and the logo with two flags representing anarchism and communism are derived from the German ANTIFA movement.
The movement is pan-leftist and non-hierarchical, being united by opposition to right-wing extremism and white supremacy as well as opposition to a centralized state. ANTIFA activists reject anti-fascist conservatives as well as liberals. The movement eschews mainstream liberal democracy and electoral politics in favor of direct action. Despite the movement's opposition to liberalism, right-wing commentators have accused ANTIFA adherents of supporting liberalism and being aided by "liberal sympathizers".
The Anti-Defamation League states that "[m]ost ANTIFA come from the anarchist movement or from the far left, though since the 2016 presidential election, some people with more mainstream political backgrounds have also joined their ranks".
Structure
ANTIFA is not a unified organization but rather a movement without a hierarchical leadership structure, comprising multiple autonomous groups and individuals. The movement is loosely affiliated as it has no chain of command, with ANTIFA groups instead sharing "resources and information about far-right activity across regional and national borders through loosely knit networks and informal relationships of trust and solidarity".
Activists typically organize protests via social media and through websites. Some activists have built peer-to-peer networks, or use encrypted-texting services like Signal. Chauncey Devega of Salon described ANTIFA as an organizing strategy, not a group of people.
The ANTIFA movement has grown since the 2016 United States presidential election. As of August 2017, approximately 200 groups existed, of varying sizes and levels of activity.
History
When Italian dictator Benito Mussolini consolidated power under his National Fascist Party in the mid-1920s, an oppositional anti-fascist movement surfaced both in Italy and countries such as the United States. Many anti-fascist leaders in the United States were anarchist, socialist and syndicalist émigrés from Italy with experience in labor organizing and militancy. Ideologically, ANTIFA in the United States sees itself as the successor to anti-Nazi activists of the 1930s. European activist groups that originally organized to oppose World War II-era fascist dictatorships re-emerged in the 1970s and 1980s to oppose white supremacy and skinheads, eventually spreading to the United States. After World War II and prior to the development of the modern ANTIFA movement, violent confrontations with fascist elements continued sporadically.