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Antifa group founded 2007 in Portland, Oregon, United States.
There is no credible, evidence-based estimate of total Antifa membership in the United States as of 2025; major reporting and reference pieces uniformly describe Antifa as a that lacks membership roll...
Antifa in the United States is portrayed across the provided materials as a , with notable groups like Rose City Antifa in Portland cited as among the oldest and most active . Reporting diverges on wh...
Antifa is best described by contemporary reporting and expert summaries as a . Multiple recent sources — including Congressional statements, Q&A explainers, academic summaries, and investigative repor...
Since 2020 U.S. reporting and research identify several strands of far‑left extremist activity: decentralized anti‑fascist networks commonly called “Antifa” and affiliated local antifa collectives (e....
is not a single, hierarchical organization with a national leadership, membership rolls, or central funding; mainstream experts and government analyses describe it as a decentralized movement or an id...
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...
Antifa in the United States in 2025 is best understood as a loose, decentralized set of autonomous local groups and activists rather than a national hierarchy, so ranking “most active chapters” is inh...
Portland’s association with “Antifa” since 2020 has been contested: federal officials and conservative outlets repeatedly portrayed the city as besieged by organized Antifa violence, citing episodes a...
Multiple local antifa- or anarchist‑aligned groups and networks have publicly organized or otherwise taken credit for providing cross‑city coordination, mutual aid, bail funds, medics, or calls for co...
Antifa in the United States is best described as a , with identifiable local collectives such as Rose City Antifa in Portland but no national leadership or formal hierarchy. Recent reporting from Sept...
The most notable events tied to “” in during 2025 were a set of high‑profile local confrontations and a series of mid‑year attacks that federal and media actors later linked—controversially—to antifas...
Antifa activity is organized through rather than a centralized command, with coordination occurring via affinity groups, local chapters, and informal networks that use both public statements and priva...
Social media plays a mixed and indirect role in enabling anti-fascist (Antifa) activity in U.S. cities: it functions primarily as an rather than a centralized organizing platform, because Antifa is a ...
traces its genealogy to anti‑fascist struggles of the interwar era—movements that fought and in the 1920s and 1930s—and to the of , which later served as an aesthetic and rhetorical ancestor for later...
Antifa in the United States is a decentralized movement of autonomous groups and individuals that has coordinated actions regionally since 2016 through informal networks, social media, encrypted messa...
Antifa in the United States is a decentralized, loosely connected set of anti-fascist activists and small local groups rather than a single organization, so getting involved usually means finding loca...
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...
Antifa in the United States is a decentralized anti‑fascist current whose ideological roots trace to European anti‑fascist movements of the 1920s–40s and to U.S. anti‑racist organizing from the 1980s ...
The Torch (or TORCH) Network is a US-based antifascist network that emerged from Anti-Racist Action; it has held conferences and organized chapters across the country, and sources describe it as “mili...
The FBI investigates individuals and networks it considers capable of violent criminal activity tied to “antifa” ideology, treating some cases as domestic terrorism or “anarchist extremist” probes whi...