Here’s everything you need to know about the antifa network that’s trying to solidify a Nazi-punching movement. Diana Johnstone on antifa in theory and in practice. “Antifa isn’t a hobby or a fad”: Sarah Jones interviews Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. In month after Charlottesville, papers spent as much time condemning anti-Nazis as Nazis. White nationalists are trying to “dox” every antifa activist they can. Antifa has a rapid response team that targets alt-Right organizers. GOP candidate Michael Snyder says Vegas shooting was probably an antifa attack on Trump supporters (and more).
From the Platypus Review, Mark Kazanski, Bernard Sampson, Gloria Rubac, Gus Breslauer on anti-fascism in the age of Trump. Is nonviolence — or fighting back — the answer to far-Right thuggery? As Trump incites violence, the Left needs a counter-strategy. We have an ethical obligation to stand against fascism and racism — but we also have an ethical obligation to do so in a way that doesn’t help the fascists and racists more than it hurts them.
