Antifa FAQs: What Is Antifa?
Some Answers to Questions About Antifa (full series) What Is Antifa? | Where Did Antifa Come From? What Does Antifa Want? |…
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Antifa FAQs: Where Did Antifa Come From?
Antifa’s roots are primarily found in interwar Europe, especially within the tumultuous jockeying among the fascist, communist, and democratic political factions trying to fill the vacuum that was Weimar Germany…
Antifa FAQs: What Does Antifa Want?
Broadly speaking, Antifa is defined by opposition to an expansively defined concept of “fascism” combined with support for a comparatively narrow spectrum of far-left and anarchic ideologies. Opposition to fascism…
Antifa FAQs: Who Supports Antifa?
Very little is publicly known about how—and the extent to which—Antifa groups are funded. There are a few reasons for this. First, in many contexts it can be difficult to…
The Organizational Restructuring of Black Lives Matter: Movement for Black Lives
While the Black Lives Matter movement as a whole remains focused on largely unchanged issues—particularly policing and other criminal justice topics—these two organizations have undergone some fairly significant transformations in…
The Organizational Restructuring of Black Lives Matter: BLM Global Network Foundation
The year 2020 witnessed even more dramatic changes within the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation (BLM Global Network Foundation). The organization underwent a leadership change and experienced some internal…
Movement for Black Lives Has a New Fiscal Sponsor
The Common Counsel Foundation appears to be the new fiscal sponsor of the Movement for Black Lives, one of the primary organizations associated with the broader Black Lives Matter movement,…
Radical Lives Matter
The radical ideas and violence associated with the Black Lives Matter movement are simply the latest eruptions of a type of left-wing politics that goes back decades, at least. Indeed,…