How long have Antifa been around?
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 American Antifa movement began in the 1980s with a
group called Anti-Racist Action. Its members confronted neo-Nazi skinheads at
punk gigs in the American Midwest and elsewhere. By the early 2000s the Antifa
movement was mostly dormant - until the rise of Donald Trump and the alt-right.
We
spoke to secret Antifa groups in Oregon. They said they come from a variety of
political backgrounds but they were united in their opposition to fascism, and
they have an anti-government streak. They said they see creeping
authoritarianism in the current American administration that they are looking
to build "a movement that really insulates us from the policies of Donald
Trump".........
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