Antifa

Police officials’ amplification of ‘antifa bus’ hoax rumors in summer 2020 bodes ill for future

The infamous “antifa buses” hoax that hit multiple rural and exurban communities in the summer of 2020 was in many regards a series of comical events, with pickup-driving, banner-waving, gun-toting …

Mon Jan 17, 2022

Prosecutor’s conspiracy case against ‘antifa’ appears based on same old antisemitic Soros smear

The antisemitism that animates so much of Republican politics seems to just keep popping out unbidden, particularly the right-wing devotion to the garbage conspiracy theory blaming George Soros as the …

Sat Dec 18, 2021

I'm thankful for this 94-year-old Polish antifa veteran who continues to slam neo-fascists

Wanda Traczyk-Stawska is an outspoken 94-year-old Polish freedom fighter. She is a veteran of the Warsaw uprising, joining the resistance when she was 17 years old. Her youth and small stature earned …

Thu Nov 25, 2021

As judge puts thumb on scales of justice, Rittenhouse’s likely acquittal creates recipe for violence

We may have an answer for the right-wing “civil war” devotee who asked Charlie Kirk the other week: “When do we get to start using the guns?” Judging from the way the trial in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is …

Sat Nov 13, 2021

Charlottesville jury selection shows how deeply the right-wing smear of antifa has penetrated

It’s becoming clearer over time that the right’s eliminationist smear campaign against antifascists—which originated as an extremist conspiracy theory, and then blossomed into right-wing conventional …

Wed Oct 27, 2021

Portland invasion by Trump’s DHS goons was an incompetent shambles, internal review finds

We knew at the time that Donald Trump sent an army of contracted goons from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in to the city of Portland, Oregon, in the summer of 2020 to arrest citizens …

Thu Oct 7, 2021

Portland jury convicts Texas-based Proud Boy of coming to city and whipping up street violence

A jury in Portland, Oregon, sent a message this week to the far-right out-of-town thugs—calling themselves Proud Boys and “Patriots” and “Three Percenters”—who descend on their city with great …

Wed Oct 6, 2021

Proud Boys’ violence spirals in Olympia as street hunt for ‘antifa’ culminates with Toese shooting

Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, the Northwest-based Proud Boys leader with a long history of violence, was shot in the leg this weekend in Olympia, Washington. If you were to only read the news accounts in …

Fri Sep 10, 2021