Is ‘antifa’ activism a necessary answer to the alt-right? – CTV News

CTVNews.ca Published Thursday, March 16, 2017 9:53AM EDT Last Updated Thursday, March 16, 2017 10:45AM EDT

Youve heard of alt-right for sure, but how about antifa or the anti-fascism movement?

Extremism doesnt just belong to the far right. Those on the far left are rejecting the mainstream left and fighting extremism with extremism, says Ameil Joseph, a professor of social work at McMaster University who studies race and activism.

The antifa movement has its roots in Europe in the 1930s, when radicals took a paramilitary approach to fighting Nazism, says Joseph. It was also found in the actions of the Black Panthers in the American civil rights era.

Today, its found in groups like Black Lives Matter or the indigenous protests against the Dakota pipeline, Joseph told CTV's Your Morning.

There is the belief that the left hasnt done enough to fight fascism, corruption, widespread centralized executive ordering and that a more radical approach is necessary.

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