WND Special Report - Antifa: What Americans Need to Know about the Alt-Left

ANTIFA

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Some called it the opening battle of Americas second civil war. And it began with a fight about the meaning of the first.

From all over the country, members of the so-called Alt-Right had descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017. Liberal mayor Mike Signer had christened his city the capital of the resistance to President Donald Trump, giving the gathering which included white supremacists and neo-Nazis the feeling of an invasion.

The supposed purpose of the rally was to defend a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee, which had been targeted by the citys vice-mayor. Yet this local conflict, fueled by social media and attention-seeking Alt-Right activists, turned the Unite the Right demonstration into what the media predicted would be the largest Far Right rally in a generation.

But the rally never took place. Before the event could even begin, police broke it up and arrested some of the participants and speakers, even though they had secured a permit. Confused rallygoers were driven by police out of the park and into the street, where hundreds of counter-protestors were waiting for them.

Although many of the counter-protestors wanted to peacefully demonstrate their opposition to white supremacists and to the Civil War monument, others were just out for blood.

The result was epic, no-holds-barred street fighting at the home of one of the nations most distinguished colleges, as Charlottesville, Virginia suddenly resembled the Weimar Republic. Police largely refrained from intervention and the nation watched in horror as armed formations battled it out in the streets. Dozens were injured by sticks, clubs and other weapons.

Finally, and inevitably, true tragedy struck. In circumstances yet to be fully explained, one of the Unite The Right rally attendees drove his car into a group of leftist protesters, resulting in the death of a young woman named Heather Heyer. Adding to the sorrow of the day, two policemen were also killed when the helicopter they were using to monitor the rally crashed.

The nation exploded in outrage. Rallies, marches, and memorials took place nationwide against the supposed rise of a resurgent neo-Nazi movement. Far Right websites, even those having nothing to do with the rally, were taken offline and individual activists saw themselves stripped of access to services like Uber or unable to raise money using companies such as Paypal. Statues of Confederate soldiers and generals were toppled. When President Trump called for national unity in an initial statement, he was largely ignored.

In the immediate aftermath, one group was hailed as heroes by the national media. They were saluted as the defenders of Charlottesville, toasted as the militant enemy of the Nazis. Leftist academic Cornel West even claimed they had saved his life.

This was Antifa, a contraction of anti-fascist, whose members claim the moral high ground of opposing fascism. Masked, clad in black, waving their characteristic black and red banners, Antifa was credited with being the most dedicated opposition to what some reporters claimed was a vast and powerful neo-fascist and racist movement.

Yet this narrative did not last long. Within a few days, a visibly angry President Trump blasted the group as the Alt-Left and claimed it had been responsible for instigating much of the violence. As if seeking to confirm President Trumps claim that they would not stop at Confederate statues, Antifa activists began targeting representations of the Founding Fathers or Revolutionary War heroes. And in the following days, ordinary Trump supporters, innocent passersby and even liberal journalists found themselves targeted by masked Antifa who launched unprovoked group attacks.

By the end of August 2017, ordinary Republicans were suddenly using Antifa as a slur for violent, unhinged left-wing extremists. Even Democrats and liberal reporters were condemning the group. And when President Trump called them out by name at an August 22 rally in Phoenix, many grassroots conservatives began awakening to the real nature of Antifa for the first time, especially as many of them were being attacked outside the very venue where the commander in chief was speaking to his supporters.

Yet there is nothing new about Antifa. Indeed, mainstream conservatives have been tangling with the masked radicals for years, often without truly understanding them. And while conservatives often label Antifa as fascists because of its members propensity for violence and intolerance of dissent, the truth is even more disturbing. Antifa didnt arise in opposition to the fascists Antifa was there first.

The story of Antifa is at least eighty years old. It goes back to the postwar days of communist revolution, organized street violence and class warfare in the cities of post-World War I Europe. Its a story of violence, murder and intimidation, a war which has been going on for almost a century.

Unfortunately for the world, all too often it appears only one side is fighting in this war. And far too many conservatives, including Republican leaders such as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, take Antifa at their word when these radicals claim to be fighting against racism and fascism.

The truth is that Antifa is fighting for communism. Its members are fighting for anarchy. And they always have been.

Antifa arent the real fascists or the real racists. They arent militant Hillary Clinton supporters or Nazis in disguise. Nor are they even anything new. They are simply the same leftists who have drowned the world in blood under the cover of egalitarian slogans since the days of Lenin.

To understand what happened in Charlottesville, whats happening in the United States today, and what is about to happen to our country in the near future, its time for all Americans to see these violent extremists as they really are, in their own words.

This is the story of the masked radicals who think they have the right to tell you what you are allowed to say, hear, and think.

This is the story of the black-clad people who beat Trump supporters in the street for the fascist and racist act of loving their country.

This is the story of Americas most dangerous domestic terrorist group.

Its the story of Antifa The Rise of the Alt-Left.

ANTIFA IN ITS OWN WORDS

Antifa is not just an organization. Nor is anti-fascism simply a tactic. It is a worldview, indeed, a kind of way of life. And to be Antifa is to engage in a kind of eternal counterinsurgency against human nature itself.

According to Antifa, it exists to prevent fascists from organizing, attaining power, and using violence against marginalized communities. It is not a slur, nor a mischaracterization, to identify the movement as an outgrowth of the extreme Left.

Those identifying as Antifa are, almost without exception, communists, socialists or left-anarchists, and the movement grew out of communist and socialist organizations. The iconography used by Antifa today is the same as that used by German communists and socialists of the early 1930s; though Antifa will attack a swastika or other Far Right symbols on sight, the hammer and sickle or the red flag are commonly displayed during its demonstrations.