ANTIFA is considered in USA as a “radical, dark and violent” far-left group that the former president and now Republican candidate Donald Trump -injured in Pennsylvania- attempted to designate it as a terrorist organization during his administration.
ANTIFA comes from the abbreviation of anti-fascist and in USA He is known for his clashes with white supremacist groups in towns such as Charlottesvillein the State of Virginia, and for protesting against conservative political speeches.
However, other US media are warning of a conspiracy campaign on social media with right-wing accounts and users against ANTIFA. “In a dramatic turn of events at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, right-wing social media accounts are circulating unverified claims that the shooter, who call themselves Mark Violets, is linked to ANTIFA. Despite the lack of credible evidence, these conspiracy theories are spreading rapidly in the wake of what officials are calling an “assassination attempt,” the independent site reported. Kansas City Defender.
As revealed New York Post Some time ago, the Trump administration blamed ANTIFA repeatedly agitated for attacks against the police, inciting looting and burning businesses during protests that took place in the United States in reaction to the death of George Floyd at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer.
What does ANTIFA mean?
Mark Braya professor of history at Dartmouth College who wrote about the movement ANTIFA In his 2017 book, “The Anti-Fascist Handbook”said that most of its members “unconditionally support militant self-defense against the police and the targeted destruction of police and capitalist property.”
As NyP noted, for Bray it is more of an ideology shared among a loosely based group of people without any hierarchical leadership, than a typical structured organization with a distinctive chain of command.
Who supports ANTIFA?
The American newspaper assured that although there are no general figures of how many members the group has, the members range from Marxists, Leninists, social democrats and even anarchists“It is impossible to determine the exact number of people who belong to ANTIFA groups because members hide their political activities from authorities and the far right, and concerns about infiltration and high expectations of commitment keep the size of the groups quite small,” Bray wrote in an op-ed in the Washington Post.
Members do most of their organizing and fundraising on a combination of social media sites before gathering from all over to protest.
The aesthetics of ANTIFA
ANTIFA members, who typically wear black clothing and their faces hidden by masks, do not shy away from violence and believe that destroying property is a just political expression.the US newspaper reported. “There is a place for violence. Is that the world we want to live in? No. Is that the world we want to inhabit? No. Is that the world we want to create? No. But will we back down? Yes,” he told The Atlanta Voice, Scott Crowformer organizer of ANTIFA.
“Antifascists” accept violence because “they believe that elites control the government and the media. That’s why they need to make a frontal statement against people they consider racist.”
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The origins of ANTIFA
TO ANTIFA likes to trace his history of struggle against hard right groups, even those who opposed Benito Mussolini in Italy already Adolf Hitler in Germany last century.
But the modern consequence arises from the Anti-Racist Action, which first appeared in 1987 in opposition to neo-Nazi groups, already Rose City ANTIFA in Portland in 2007.
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ANTIFA’s recent actions
For years ANTIFA expanded and became much more active since the President Trump entered the White House in January 2017.
In February of that year, activists from ANTIFA Protests were organized at the University of California at Berkeley over the appearance of the conservative speaker Milo YiannopoulosMembers set fires, threw rocks at police and vandalized businesses, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage.
In August of that same year, they clashed with white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, during a Unite the Right demonstration.
The activists of ANTIFA Black-clad protesters brought Portland to a standstill in August 2019 when they clashed with right-wing groups. At that time, skirmishes between the group occurred in a nearby park and on the streets. Police arrested 13 people and seized a stun gun, a shield, bear spray, and metal and wooden poles.
Milei blames the “international left” for the shots against Trump
President Javier Milei He blamed the “international left” for the attempted assassination of the former US president.
“It is not surprising that the international left is desperate, as it sees its nefarious ideology expiring and is willing to destabilise democracies and promote violence to cling to power. Panicked of losing at the polls, it is resorting to terrorism to impose its retrograde and authoritarian agenda.”Milei posted on her X account.
Source: Ambito
