Although Antifa rose to prominence in 2020 with their violence, looting and arson they have been active in Western countries for many years. Antifa had its origins in mid-1930s Germany.
In May 1932, The German Communist Party announced the formation of Antifascistische Aktion (Antifascist Action, commonly referred to as “Antifa”), a new paramilitary communist group. This was the original Antifa and the group that contemporary Antifa around the world take inspiration from. Those who served as decision-makers in the original group were members of the German Communist Party and other allied communist groups.
Antifascist Action was a communist organisation under a thinly veiled new name. The two-flag logo used by today’s Antifa groups is based on the original red flags of Antifascist Action. The two red flags symbolised the union of communism and socialism.
The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM), which according to investigative journalist Andy Ngo, is part of Antifa, published a 10 point plan is instructive of Antifa’s aims. Point two: “We will destroy the state, police, military, corporations, and all those who run the American plantation”.[i]
They certainly had a good try following the death of George Floyd.
In the first few days after George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, rioters tore through dense stretches of Minneapolis, St. Paul and other metro communities in retaliation, causing millions in property damage to more than 1,500 locations.
In their wake, vandals left a trail of smashed doors and windows, covered hundreds of boarded-up businesses with graffiti and set fire to nearly 150 buildings, with dozens burned to the ground. Pharmacies, groceries, liquor stores, tobacco shops and cell phone stores were ransacked, losing thousands of dollars in stolen merchandise. Many were looted repeatedly over consecutive nights.
Other property — like gas stations, restaurants and even parked cars — was set on fire, with much of it completely destroyed.[ii]
Insurers estimate the total damage claims for the 2020 riots in the order of $2 billion.
All the while the mainstream media reported the violence, arson and looting as “mainly peaceful protests”.
The same media give the impression that Antifa is just a loose collection of Marxists, anarchists and misfits dedicated to fighting racism by any means including occasional violence.
Make no mistake – Antifa is a well-organised, disciplined paramilitary group. New recruits are required to undergo six month’s intensive training, including firearms training, before acceptance into the organisation. They are the modern equivalent of Hitler’s brownshirts.
Antifa began accelerating its mass organising in early 2017 as Donald Trump took office. Within a couple of months, they had developed a sophisticated system that included propaganda, outreach, operational security, reconnaissance and group fighting strategies.[iii]
Antifa’s inner workings were clouded in secrecy until they were exposed in a video by Project Veritas, the independent investigative journalism site founded by James O’Keefe.
After befriending some Antifa members in Portland, the Project Veritas journalist was invited into the Rose City Antifa (RCA) group training program and given details of the six-month training syllabus.
RCA was founded in 2007 and is the first known formalised Antifa group in the United States using “Antifa” in its name.
The fifteen-page RCA syllabus is broken into nine sections or units. Each unit addresses a different aspect of militant Antifa training and has a set of required readings and a list of the “Key Competencies” that must be achieved for that unit.[iv] For example, “Unit 5 -Class Struggle and White Supremacy”, has as one of the key competencies, “Be able to discuss why whiteness was invented to break working class solidarity”.
When the recruit has successfully completed the training program they require the unanimous consent of existing members to become a member.
RCA members must pledge to agree to disrupt “fascist” activity, refuse cooperation with law enforcement and courts, hold themselves accountable and support others within the network and those outside the network with similar aims, such as BLM.
An example of the Antifa paramilitary in action was the setting up of a so-called “autonomous zone” in Seattle in June 2020.
On June 8, staff and officers of the Seattle Police Department (SPD) frantically loaded what they could from their East Precinct onto cars and a rented moving truck. The East Precinct is located in the heart of the Capitol Hill district in Seattle, a densely packed business and residential area.
For days the neighbourhood was marred by scenes of intense violence by rioters intent on overtaking the East Precinct similar to what was done to the Third Precinct in Minneapolis.
Night after night, hundreds of Antifa and Black Lives Matter (BLM) militants lined the streets throwing rocks, concrete chunks, and incendiary devices at officers, leading to many injuries.
No longer able to push back the nightly onslaught from black-clad rioters in Capitol Hill and facing pressure from the mayor’s office to pull back, Seattle police boarded up and abandoned the East Precinct.
Within hours, militant BLM and Antifa protestors declared ownership of the neighbourhood. They named the new six-block territory the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone or CHAZ.
CHAZ was allowed by the city to run its course for more than three weeks.
It was a large-scale experiment in anarchy, chaos and brute-force criminality.
By the end of its twenty-four-day run, there were numerous assaults, robberies, an attempted rape, six shootings and two homicides. A sign of things to come if these militants and their backers are successful in their mission to “defund the police”.
When the SPD evacuated from the station on June 8, 2020 masked militants stole city property – barricades, fencing and more to create makeshift barriers. These barriers became the official walls around CHAZ (later renamed as CHOP). To fortify their barricades, armed members of the Antifa paramilitary and their BLM allies moved in. They operated as private militia complete with their own uniforms.
A sign posted on one of the barricades read, “You are now leaving the USA”.
[i] All ten points at: https://www.conservapedia.com/Revolutionary_Abolitionist_Movement
[ii] https://www.startribune.com/minneapolis-st-paul-buildings-are-damaged-looted-after-george-floyd-protests-riots/569930671/?refresh=true
[iii] Ady Ngo, Unmasked, p79
[iv] Andy Ngo’s book, Unmasked, pp 79-95 gives full details of the orientation course and the training nine units
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