Post by NFA on Jun 7, 2020 10:20:39 GMT 8
A longish read with many video clips
Europe’s Antifa History Should Serve as a Warning to America
Chris Tomlinson 4 Jun 2020
The far-left extremist Antifa movement and its allies have carved a wave of violence, destruction, and even murder for decades in Europe and their history should serve as a warning to the United States of America.
Antifa — despite the claims of its defenders and proponents — does not stand just for simply anti-fascism but rather for the organisation Antifaschistische Aktion, originally the paramilitary arm of the Pro-USSR German Communist Party (KPD). Its actions today are not merely against fascism, but explicitly for a mix of anarchism and communism by any means necessary.
While anarcho-communist movements have existed in some shape or form since the 19th century, the first incarnation of Antifa took place in 1932.
Antifa — despite the claims of its defenders and proponents — does not stand just for simply anti-fascism but rather for the organisation Antifaschistische Aktion, originally the paramilitary arm of the Pro-USSR German Communist Party (KPD). Its actions today are not merely against fascism, but explicitly for a mix of anarchism and communism by any means necessary.
While anarcho-communist movements have existed in some shape or form since the 19th century, the first incarnation of Antifa took place in 1932.
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The modern Antifa movement, which has no formal link to the first Antifa, also began in Germany — West Germany at the time — in the anarchist squatter movement of the 1980s. The organisation then largely fought against the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD), which has recently all but vanished in the polls, scoring just 0.4 per cent of the vote in the 2017 national election.
The modern Antifa movement has embraced anarchism as well as communism; their logo emulates that of their 1930s incarnation but portrays the black flag of anarchism alongside the red flag of international socialism and communism.
Antifa has also coopted social democrat symbols, such as the three arrows of the German Social Democrat Party’s Iron Front paramilitary from the Weimar German era, a group the original Antifa often fought against.
The modern Antifa movement has embraced anarchism as well as communism; their logo emulates that of their 1930s incarnation but portrays the black flag of anarchism alongside the red flag of international socialism and communism.
Antifa has also coopted social democrat symbols, such as the three arrows of the German Social Democrat Party’s Iron Front paramilitary from the Weimar German era, a group the original Antifa often fought against.
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Antifa and the Kurdish terror group have had documented links in Germany and in the United Kingdom where Kurdish PKK-linked centres in London have been used to host Antifa events in the past. That same Kurdish Community Centre in Haringey, London which had hosted Antifa events in the past was investigated by the UK Charity Commission in 2015 for failing to remove “material which might suggest they appeared to support a proscribed terrorist group” after it had been told to in 2013. The charity was subsequently wound up in March 2019.
European members of Antifa have even fought alongside Kurdish forces in Syria during the country’s civil war. In April 2018, French Antifa members fighting in Syria threatened a wave of terror against the French state following clashes between French authorities and a squatter camp in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
“Our priority targets are the Turkish state and the French state, as well as all the fascist groups,” the extremists said and noted they would target police, military, and intelligence officials they said were “powerful but not invulnerable”.
European members of Antifa have even fought alongside Kurdish forces in Syria during the country’s civil war. In April 2018, French Antifa members fighting in Syria threatened a wave of terror against the French state following clashes between French authorities and a squatter camp in Notre-Dame-des-Landes.
“Our priority targets are the Turkish state and the French state, as well as all the fascist groups,” the extremists said and noted they would target police, military, and intelligence officials they said were “powerful but not invulnerable”.