Anti-fascism  

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Anti-fascism is the opposition to fascist ideologies, organizations, governments and people.

There is a difference between anti-fascism as a political movement, and personal opposition to fascism. In the broadest sense, an anti-fascist is anyone who disagrees with fascism or engages in anti-fascist direct action. This includes most mainstream political parties and groups in the Western world, including both leftists and rightists. Anti-fascist political movements have been historically associated with left-wing movements such as anarchism, communism and socialism. However, many anti-fascists aren't associated with those ideologies. Another term for anti-fascism (or anti-fascists) is antifa.

Recent developments

There was a surge in fascist activity across Europe from 1989 to 1991 after the collapse of Communism. In 1991, the Campaign Against Fascism in Europe (CAFE) coordinated a large militant protest against the visit to London by French right-wing leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen. This sparked a surge in anti-fascist organisations throughout Europe. In the UK alone, in 1992 a number of left-wing groups formed anti-fascist front organisations, such as a re-launched ANL in 1992, the Socialist Party's Youth against Racism in Europe YRE, and the Revolutionary Communist Party's Workers Against Racism. A number of black-led organisations, along with the Labour Party Black Sections and the National Black Caucus, formed the Anti-Racist Alliance in 1991, which eventually became the National Assembly Against Racism.

See also

• Anti-authoritarianism
• Anti-capitalism
• Anti-communism
• Anti-Germans (political current)
• Antifa movements
• Anti-Fascist Bloc
• Antifascist Front of Slavs in Hungary
• Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League
• Anti-racism
• Three Arrows
• Anti-Stalinist left
• Denazification
• Italian resistance movement
• Laws against Holocaust denial
• Resistance during World War II
• Resistance movement
• Redskin (subculture)
• Slovak National Uprising
• Squadism
• Yugoslav Partisans

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