Not all antifascists are anarchists, but all anarchists are antifascist, and have been preventing against fascist forces for hundreds of years. During the Spanish Civil War, a lot of the nation was under anarchist management, and thousands of anarchists joined the International Brigades, a volunteer militia numbering within the hundreds, who traveled to Spain to battle towards General Francisco Franco and his fascist forces. It’s no coincidence that there are black flags waving in many photographs of masked antifa, who’ve been very lively in broadly resisting what they view as oppressive policies across the U.S. However, it’s also important to emphasise that almost all anarchist rules, convictions and moral positions are under no circumstances an invention of contemporary anarchist concept – they are as old as human civilisation. And as a result of somewhat different political philosophies of liberalism and communism, anarchist principle – like most political ideologies – isn’t … Read More
