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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 4:02:37 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 4:04:07 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 4:10:28 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 4:18:38 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 5:54:46 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 6:04:00 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 6:05:04 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 6:15:13 GMT -7
Dear friends,
I am sorry to say, but what I see in various American cities looks like what I saw in Greece, France, Germany and other European countries where the far right and far left clashed in the past and present. The only difference is that in the USA fire arms are used. But in Europe the far right and far left has a history of armed violence and terrorism. From the Bologna massacre (Italian: strage di Bologna) which was carried out by the neo-fascist terrorist organization Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari (NAR, Armed Revolutionary Nuclei), the terrorist bombing of the Bologna Centrale railway station on the morning of 2 August 1980, which killed 85 people and wounded over 200 to the extreme left/far left terror of the Red Army Fraction (Rote Armee Fraction) in Germany and other countries during the seventies and early eighties, the terrorism of the Red Brigades in Italy (1970–1988), the far left Action Directe (1979–1987) in France, the CCC (Cellules Communistes Combattantes, the Communist Combatant Cells) in Belgium (1983–January 1986 ) and RARA ((Revolutionary Anti-Racist Action) in the Netherlands (1980s and 1990s), and the far right criminal Brabant Killers (the Nijvel Gang) in Belgium (de Bende van Nijvel in Dutch & Flemish, and Les Tueurs fous du Brabant in French/Wallon; the mad killers of Brabant) (31 December 1981–9 November 1985) and later Anders Behring Breivik of the 2011 Norway attacks, the extreme rightwing terror of the Neo-nazi Golden Dawn party in Greece and the terrorist NSU (National Socialist Underground), a "right-wing extremist group whose purpose was to kill foreigners, and citizens of foreign origin" in Germany (1999-2006).
Today the far right, the far left and other extremist, radical and sectarian groups are Global, because these groups look globaly. The American far right is inspired by Nazi Germany, European Neo-Nazi's, Italian fascism of Musolini, and Austrian, Canadian and South-African far right activism and terrorism (the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand by the Australian far right terrorist Brenton Harrison Tarrant, whom was inspired by the Identitäre Bewegung Österreich (IBÖ), Blair Cottrell, and the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik).
In contrast with the past when the far right was sectarian, divided and weak today the far right can gather masses, has modern agitprop (political advertising and propaganda), websites like Stormfront, 8Chan and 4Chan. You have some rightwing International of the Altright with American, Canadian, Australian and European branches and an International of the Identitarian movement. The Populist right is also connected in a sort of European Rightwing National Populist International. Of course the left and centre left for a long time organised internationally in their Socialist/Social Democratic, Communist, Trotskist (the 4th International) and Anarchist internationals. The far left Antifa Autonomen in Europe are also international organised in their European solidarity. At large extreme Black Bloc demonstrations in large European cities you will find German, Denish, Dutch, Greek, Spanish, French, Austrian, Greek (Anarchists from Athens), Czech and Polish Anarchists united.
This is 2 years agon in Portland
Dear Kai, Jaga, John, Ludvik, Jeanne and Eric. You will know more about the situation in the USA than I do. I see the American Antifa as a different branch of Anti-fascist Action than their European breathern, because the American Antifa operate under different circumstances in the historical, social-economical, ethnic, cultural, society wise and in the now of the present of september 2020.
Cheers, Pieter
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 6:54:24 GMT -7
The American Antifa
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 6:59:45 GMT -7
European AntifaAntifaschistische Aktion (Anti Fascist Action) was a militant anti-fascist organisation in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933) started by members of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) that existed from 1932 to 1933. It was primarily active as a KPD campaign during the 1932 German federal elections and was described by the KPD as a "red united front under the leadership of the only anti-fascist party, the KPD". Under the leadership of the committed Stalinist Ernst Thälmann, the KPD viewed fascism primarily as the final stage of capitalism rather than as a specific movement or group and therefore applied the term to all other parties. The front focused largely on attacking the KPD's main adversary, the centre-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), whom they referred to as social fascists and regarded as the "main pillar of the dictatorship of Capital".Ernst Thälmann (16 April 1886 – 18 August 1944) was a German communist politician, Anti-fascist, and leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from 1925 to 1933. In August 1944, he was transferred from Bautzen prison to Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was shot on the 18th August 1944 on the personal order of Adolf Hitler."Come to us" 1932 poster of Antifaschistische AktionIn the postwar era, the historical organisation inspired new groups and networks, known as the wider Antifa movement, many of which use the aesthetics of the historical Antifaschistische Aktion, especially its abbreviated name Antifa and a modified version of its logo. During the Cold War, the Antifaschistische Aktion had a dual legacy in East Germany and West Germany, respectively. In the east, it was considered part of the history and heritage of the KPD's successor, the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. In West Germany, its aesthetics and name were embraced by Maoists and later autonomists from the 1970s. Demos organized by antifa in Germany often bring together happy hippies and angry anarchists
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 7:15:04 GMT -7
A Turkish (coloured) perspective
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 7:23:27 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 7:43:29 GMT -7
Rebel News Network, Ltd., stylized as Rebel News, and previously known as The Rebel Media, and The Rebel, is a Canadian far-right political and social commentary media website. It was founded in February 2015 by former Sun News Network personalities Ezra Levant and Brian Lilley. It has been described as a "global platform" for the anti-Muslim ideology known as counter-jihad.
Listen from 8:52 Laura Southern is right. I am not a supporter or fan or her, but she is right. The European Antifa is older, and has nearly 90 years of experience in Europe. The Antifa tradition is very strong in places as Athens, Berlin, Hamburg, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Barcelona (dating from the Spanish civil war, which in part was a war between fascists, Monarchists and reactionary Catholics on one side -supported by Nazi Germany and Italy- and anti-fascist Anarchists, leftwing Spanish Republicans, Communists and socialists supported by the European left and the SovjetUnion on the other side -with the International Brigades of leftwing foreign antifascist volunteers that fought on the leftwing Republican side -Ernest Hemingway was in Spain during that Civil war from 1936 until 1939-). I have personal experience with the intimidation, agression and the violence of the Dutch autonomist squater Antifa during the nineties in Amsterdam and Arnhem. These were a raw, anti-social bunch of intimidating and dominant radicals. Radicalised in decades of confrontations with the Dutch riot police (the ME), far right Neo-Nazi's, soccer Hooligans and sometimes criminals who threatened them, because they squated houses and criminals were often the bouncers of certain Real estate agents or property owners. I can see little about the American Antifa, because I don't know them. I know the European ones.
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 8:01:49 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 4, 2020 8:08:00 GMT -7
Where is the USA heading too? More polarisation or will the USA go back to normal, to a Free Democracy in which Democrats, Republicans and Independent people have respect for each other again? I think that wherever division, discord, polarisation, confict, arguments, quarrels, confrontations and fights take place there are 2 or more sides and that the problem lies at both sides. Dialogue, mediation, diplomacy, conversation, brigde building and unity starts where people starts aknowledging the other side, start seeing the other side and understand the other side. Not agreeing with the other side, but understanding the other side. My worries for the USA is consider the fact that there will be a lot of Americans who do not like either Donald Trump and Joe Biden. People who do not vote in Europe and the USA are a problem, because they are decreasing the foundation and balance of a democracy.
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