still can& #39;t get used to antifa going from a german niche movement to the american mainstream. it& #39;s unreal. but it& #39;s also exactly where antifa needs to be right now.

to americans the label may be relatively new but german millennials grew up with antifa. it& #39;s been a thing here since we& #39;ve been kids.

we& #39;ve always associated antifa with punks but it has much older roots. the logo below is from 1930

after 1945 there was basically no antifa, and in the 70& #39;s young germans from the left-alternative scene started it up again. after reunification, the neonazi problem got out of hand, and that was arguably the point where antifa became visible to the german mainstream.

i don& #39;t want to do a complete history lesson, so i& #39;m going to cut this thread short and point to wikipedia instead (go read a different website than twitter once in a whilehttps://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😘" title="Face throwing a kiss" aria-label="Emoji: Face throwing a kiss">)

fighting fascists is an activity that is timeless, placeless, often thankless but absolutely necessary