Antifa, un mouvement en peine croissance

Si le KKK et les suprémacistes blancs ont retenu l'attention la semaine dernière, plus le temps passe et plus on peut lire sur un mouvement dont les représentants confrontaient les manifestants à Charlottsville. Et ils ont nombreux à pointer vers le fait que ce mouvement ne rejette pas la violence pou réagir aux propos et actions de l'extrême-droite.

 "Sabaté is an adherent of a controversial force on the left known as antifa. The term, a contraction of the word “anti-fascist,” describes the loose affiliation of radical activists who have surfaced in recent months at events around the country and have openly scuffled with white supremacists, right-wing extremists and, in some cases, ordinary supporters of President Trump. Energized in part by Mr. Trump’s election, they have sparred with their conservative opponents at political rallies and college campus speaking engagements, arguing that one crucial way to combat the far right is to confront its supporters on the streets.

Unlike most of the counterdemonstrators in Charlottesville and elsewhere, members of antifa have shown no qualms about using their fists, sticks or canisters of pepper spray to meet an array of right-wing antagonists whom they call a fascist threat to American democracy. As explained this week by a dozen adherents of the movement, the ascendant new right in the country requires a physical response.

“People are starting to understand that neo-Nazis don’t care if you’re quiet, you’re peaceful,” said Emily Rose Nauert, a 20-year-old antifa member who became a symbol of the movement in April when a white nationalist leader punched her in the face during a melee near the University of California, Berkeley.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/antifa-left-wing-faction-far-right.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0