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What – or who – is antifa?

  • Written by Stanislav Vysotsky, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
imageA police officer pushes an antifa demonstrator out of the way during a 2019 protest in Washington, D.C.Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

The movement called “antifa” gets its name from a short form of “anti-fascist,” which is about the only thing its members agree on.

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