The Anti-fascist movement, or Antifa, have been part of the European political landscape since World War II. In recent decades, the group has predominantly centered in western Europe, in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the U.K. Their ideology is broadly anti-capitalist, anarchist and anti-fascist in the most general sense of opposing centralized state control and anything that can be seen as authoritarian.
ABC 7 (DC), “Antifa, far-right clashes raise questions about violence as a political tool”
