Talk:Antifascist Action/Archive1

Someone should...
Someone should copy-edit this mess.--Arisboch ☞✍☜☞✉☜ ∈)☼(∋ 09:44, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Aaaww, anti fascists in Australia have lots of enemies, but no friends...?
Sorry, but I found this simply too (unintentionally) hilarious. Googling for a national AFA/antifa website for Australia (to go with the Danish and Swedish ones I've already added), I found only a WordPress blog (apart from a specific Sydney branch WordPress blog). Very endearingly, the Antifa Australia blog has a list of Our Enemies which includes various right winger parties, movements and factions, but when one clicks the blog's list of Our Friends one is met with an empty page, the ubiquitous "like" button and the sad text "Be the first to like this."

So, apparently, being an Aussie Antifa is a lonesome and friendless task... It reminds me of the opening of "It's lonesome away from your kindred and all; By the campfire at night where the wild dingos call; But there's nothing so lonesome, so dull or so drear; Than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer." Poor, poor Aussie Antifas; apparently, not even other Antifas want to befriend them, condemning them to a bleak existence surrounded by enemies that extend far beyond the shores of fair Australia and include Golden Dawn and the Ku Klux Klan... ScepticWombat (talk) 07:16, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Well Antifa is a very wide-spread movement. They may not have friends on the page, but they have enough people in the movement to make it very effective. The only sad thing is several area-specific Antifa movements are communistic, some British ones will even call each other comrade. 𐌈FedoraTippingSkeptic𐌈 (talk) 07:23, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I hope you realise that I was largely being flippant, right? At most, the "no friends" thing suggests that the Aussie Antifa blog represents a slim number of persons and hasn't bothered listing other national Antifa groups (perhaps because it's so geographically distant from the Antifa "heartland" in Europe). ScepticWombat (talk) 07:33, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Alright, I just want to point out while there are groups that specifically oppose fascism (like the UAF) the antifascist movement itself isn't really a group. 𐌈FedoraTippingSkeptic𐌈 (talk) 07:38, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Of course it isn't. It's as amorphous a concept as "leftism" itself and also dependent on national political context. Just off the top of my head, I'd say that the AFA/Antifa movement(s) includes anything from various revolutionary socialists and communists to different flavours of anarchists, as well as probably some direct action-focused democratic socialists/social democrats too (though, as a rule of thumb, I suspect that a rough political demographic of the AFA/Antifa movement would be "to the left of Social Democrats").
 * Btw, I'd be happy if you added some more helpful descriptions to the links in the footnotes, rather than the singularly uninformative YouTube URLs and the like. ScepticWombat (talk) 07:47, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Criticism of Antifa comes mostly from the right?
So, you wish to imply, indirectly, that people who consider themselves to be Liberals will typically approve of violent means? This sounds like something Donald Trump would say.Ariel31459 (talk) 14:47, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

Should there be mention of the realized action? Berkley, Boston and Charlotsville come to mind recently. 64.210.21.210 (talk) 07:43, 22 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Not all Antifa activists or groups are violent. Evil Zionist (talk) 20:24, 22 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Just the ones that are violent tend to be painfully obvious and get all the media attention. It doesn't help when a lot of them dress up in the same black bloc uniforms.