Anti-fascism

Demonstration against neo-nazism in Berlin.

Anti-fascism is the opposition and resistance to ideologies, organizations, governments and people of a totalitarian, authoritarian and anti-democratic nature, which are associated with fascism in any of its aspects: Nazism, Francoism. or fascism itself.

Historically, countries or states with fascist or Nazi governments have been associated with political resistance, although certain European and American groups that since the 1970s have faced each other through propaganda or mobilization have also called themselves “anti-fascists” in the street, to the parties and gangs of the extreme right.

In the field of political activists, anti-fascism has served at certain historical moments as a meeting place and collaboration between organizations of the left, Marxist-Leninists, the labor movement, anarchists, and militants of liberal, democratic and center-right parties. What united these groups was their opposition to the exercise of authoritarianism or government repression or forms of discrimination such as homophobia, sexism, racism and the suppression of freedoms.

History

In Italy, the OVRA, the organization for the surveillance and repression of anti-fascism, founded in 1927, was the secret police of the Kingdom of Italy.

One of the most important anti-fascist movements occurred during the 1936-1939 Spanish civil war when people of dozens of nationalities fought in the International Brigades, created under orders of the Communist International, against the faction of the Spanish army that had revolted under the leadership of Franco against the Second Republic of the Popular Front.

After the victory of Francoism in Spain, an anti-fascist resistance movement called the maquis took place.

During World War II, many of the major resistance movements to the Nazi occupation were anti-fascist in nature. Many of those who were captured by the Nazis were imprisoned and murdered in concentration camps such as Buchenwald or Dachau.

During the Cold War, the authorities of the (socialist) German Democratic Republic called the Berlin Wall the "Anti-Fascist Wall" (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall).

In Europe, many of the terrorist groups such as ETA, Galician Resistance, EGPGC, Terra Lliure or the GRAPO in Spain, the Germans of the Red Army Fraction or the Italian Red Brigades have also declared themselves anti-fascist. ^{[citation required]}

Antifascist or Antifa Action

Fart-left groups have sometimes organized under the name of Acción Antifascista or Antifa. The first organization with this name was a group within the Red Combat Front paramilitary organization —in turn the armed wing of the Communist Party of Germany— that was active between 1923 and 1933.

In the 1980s, in the Federal Republic of Germany, an extra-parliamentary political movement and street combat against what its political discourse determined as “fascism” arose, with the same name and insignia as the former paramilitary group of the 1920s. then a network of loosely linked groups has adopted the same name, insignia, and tactics in Central Europe, Scandinavia, and the United States.

Gallery

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  German SPD Anti-Nazi Party Propaganda

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  Not the Nazism

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  Antifascist Action Logo.