First, the history of Antifa needs to be clarified. Antifa isn’t a new organization by any means, as they’ve been around for nearly 100 years to this day. In the 1920’s and 1930’s many left leaning groups -communist, socialists, anarchist- started to organize to combat the fascist regimes on the rise in Italy and Germany. Fascism is a dictatorial government that controls all aspects of its people’s life, and puts emphasis on Nation, and often race. Opposition is not allowed to exist (3). As fascists began to consistently harass their left-wing opponents with paramilitary-raids, this force was primarily used as a defense against them. This is where the name Anti-fascist is derived from (2). The anti-fascists attempts were not so successful,
