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Jan 25 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
🧵ANTIFA and it's origins in Minneapolis
ANTIFA, as it exists in the US and Canada today, has its origins in Minneapolis, MN. The movement began as a backlash against White Power skinheads:
"ARA [Anti-Racist Action] was major precursor to and helped define “antifa,” contemporary US and Canadian anti-fascism, a term increasingly used by some ARA activists during the 1990s and early years of the new millennium."
"Anti-Racist Action lived up to its most famous motto, “we go where they go,” by taking direct action in the streets against Klansmen, neo-nazis, anti-abortion extremists, and other far-right organizing, as well as against racist and brutal police."
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Here is the first ever poster created by Anti-Racist Action, back in 1987, and another from 1989:
