black bloc

French Black Bloc’s utter uselessness… except to the French government

By Ramin Mazaheri – The Saker Blog – December 5, 2019 On December 5th France’s long, long, LONG-awaited General Strike against austerity measures began, and it was a huge success: 90% of trains were shut down nationwide, there was an unprecedented walk out by teachers, and as many as 1.5 million people marched despite temperatures […]

French Government to Crackdown on Protests After Violent Black Bloc Anarchists Rioted Amid Legitimate Yellow Vest Demonstration

After representatives of the Yellow Vest movement accused the French government of failing to stop black bloc anarchists from crashing and marring their protests this weekend, the French government is using the violence by the black bloc as an excuse to ban rallies in wealthy areas and to give riot police more power.

Charlottesville, VA: Mainstream Media Is Silent on Antifa Beating of Policeman and Assault Against News Crew

About 200 Antifa protesters displayed anger at the one-year anniversary of the 'Unite the Right' rally in Charlottesville, even though no members of the far-right attended. The leftist domestic terrorists assaulted an NBC news crew and beat a police officer. The protesters lunged at the media for filming the march and they screamed at police for wearing riot gear. [...]

Antifa in Theory and in Practice

By Diana Johnstone | CounterPunch | October 9, 2017 “Fascists are divided into two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists.” – Ennio Flaiano, Italian writer and co-author of Federico Fellini’s greatest film scripts. In recent weeks, a totally disoriented left has been widely exhorted to unify around a masked vanguard calling itself Antifa, for anti-fascist.  […]