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Political movement that existed in Germany from 1932 to 1933
The most common symbols associated with the antifa movement are variations of the historic Antifaschistische Aktion logo featuring —with contemporary adaptations emphasizing a single black flag or mix...
Antifa traces its lineage to interwar European anti-fascist movements—especially Italian and German resistance in the 1920s–1930s—and to later revivals in postwar Europe and the U.S., with modern Amer...
Anti-fascist movements trace their lineage to interwar and World War II resistance in Europe—especially Italian and German anti-fascist groups of the 1920s–1930s and the 1932 Antifaschistische Aktion ...
The term “antifa” is a contraction of “anti‑fascist” that traces its visual and organizational lineage to 1930s Europe — notably the German Antifaschistische Aktion founded in 1932 — and to broader an...
Antifa traces its intellectual and symbolic lineage to interwar European anti‑fascist movements—movements such as Italy’s Arditi del Popolo and Germany’s Antifaschistische Aktion of the early 1930s—wh...
Antifaschistische Aktion’s post‑1945 revival in Germany grew from competing legacies: the pre‑1933 Antifaschistische Aktion as a Communist‑led model and the Soviet‑influenced antifascist state narrati...
Antifa is not a single organization but a decentralized political current whose name, tactics, and self-image draw on a century of anti‑fascist struggle in Europe while its contemporary formations in ...
Antifaschistische Aktion was a short-lived, communist-led organization founded by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1932 and dissolved after the Nazi seizure of power; its logo and name later in...
Antifa in the United States is not a single organization but a of anti-fascist activism that mixes community organizing, information campaigns, and sometimes confrontational direct action; its modern ...
The three arrows emblem originated in 1930s Germany as an anti-fascist device and has been reinterpreted and re-used by antifa-aligned groups across multiple countries, appearing in varied stylization...
The historical roots of the antifa movement trace to multiple, distinct anti-fascist efforts spanning the 1920s–1930s in Europe, postwar German antifascist committees, and a revived antifa nomenclatur...
Antifa’s use of the black flag is deliberate and layered: it is most commonly paired with a red flag to signal a historical fusion of anarchist (black) and socialist/communist (red) currents within an...
Antifa has no single founder; it is a name and a tradition borrowed from early 20th‑century European anti‑fascist struggles and revived in multiple waves, with organizational forms appearing in the 19...
The anti‑fascist movement in the United States traces its roots to interwar and transnational struggles against European fascism, evolved through domestic fights against racist and authoritarian movem...
Yes. Antifa-derived imagery — notably the German Antifaschistische Aktion “two flags” and the Iron Front “Three Arrows” — has been reused, adapted and repurposed by a range of actors from modern Antif...
Antifaschistische Aktion was reconstituted in occupied Germany primarily by and by loose coalitions of left‑wing activists who revived pre‑war organizing forms and anti‑fascist committees. Sources agr...
Antifa in the United States is best described as a rather than a single organized group; its adherents identify broadly with opposing fascism, white supremacy and far‑right organizing through a mix of...
Modern Antifa groups draw lineage from a century of anti-fascist organizing in Europe—particularly Germany and Italy—and from militant anti-fascist currents of the 1970s–80s; historians link tactics o...