1. it stands for antifascist
2. it traces its origins to street-fighting armies who confronted the fascist forces of mussolini, the nazi party, & fascists across europe
4. in the '60s and '70s multiracial radicals banded together to fight fascist parties like the National Front in Britain
6. the "black bloc" technique- dressing all in black with masks-- emerged from German leftists called Autonomen who fought postwar Nazism