{"id":71684,"date":"2017-04-24T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71684"},"modified":"2017-04-24T15:57:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T19:57:34","slug":"71684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=71684","title":{"rendered":"ANTIFA: A Radical Left-wing Group Turns American Politics Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Shadowy Extremist Group Behind the Anti-Trump Riots<\/h1>\n

Antifa flies under the radar despite escalating acts of violence against president’s supporters<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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by <\/span>Edmund Kozak<\/span><\/a>
\nPoliZette<\/p>\n

On April 15, a pro-Trump, pro-free-speech rally at University of California, Berkeley, descended into violent mayhem after radical far-leftists \u2014 members of the organization Antifa \u2014 began to attack the peacefully assembled crowd.<\/p>\n

Antifa, which stands for \u201canti-fascist action,\u201d is a network of loosely affiliated far-left anarchist and communist groups that orchestrate violent protests and attacks on populists, conservatives, and anyone else its members deem to be \u201cfascists\u201d or \u201cNazis.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnyone who tries to hold any sort of right-wing event literally gets beat up by militant communists in the street.\u201d<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Antifa was formed originally in Germany in the 1980s, its members taking the name of the communist paramilitary groups that engaged the Nazis in street-fighting in the 1930s. It now has active cells across the world, including in Germany, the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Czechia, and France.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnyone who tries to hold any sort of right-wing event literally gets beat up by militant communists in the street,\u201d said independent journalist Lauren Southern, who was present at one of the pro-Trump Berkeley rallies, in a video taken immediately following the violence.<\/p>\n

Harrowing video footage taken by Southern\u2019s crew showed Antifa street fighters throwing bricks and M-80 explosives into the crowd, as well as assaulting Trump supporters. Other footage released by someone present at the event showed one Antifa thug hit a Trump supporter over the head with a bicycle chain and lock.<\/p>\n

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