What is anti-fascism? Understand in three minutes | EUROtoday

The time period “antifa” is the abbreviation of “antifascist” and designates activists or collectives claiming to be against fascism and, extra broadly, to the far proper. Historically, anti-fascism develops in Italy within the early Nineteen Twenties, when paramilitary teams linked to Benito Mussolini violently attacked employees and socialist organizations.

Anti-fascism then took on a world dimension in the course of the coming to energy of Adolf Hilter in Germany (1933), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the formation within the interwar interval of far-right “leagues” in France. After 1945, in France as in Italy, the anti-fascists had been a part of the continuity of the battles waged in opposition to the fascist and Nazi regimes. The anti-fascism that we all know at present in France primarily comes from the rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s National Front from the Nineteen Eighties.

In this video, and with the lighting of Ugo Palheta, sociologist and co-author of Faced with the fascist risk. Getting out of authoritarianism (Textuel, 2021), we return to the origins of anti-fascism and its latest developments – from its delivery in Italy within the Nineteen Twenties, to its renewal in France for the reason that 2010s. We additionally focus on the small anti-fascist group of the Young Guard, blamed for the dying of far-right activist Quentin Deranque.

To discover out extra about this new era of younger French anti-fascists, we refer you to the survey under.