Anyway, back to the topic:
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/thomas-jefferson-street/articles/2017-09-05/understand-the-antifa-and-americas-history-of-violent-protests
…is a very good media piece on the history and purpose of antifa.
And it leads neatly into this, an interesting discussion on Twitter between Tom Ricks and Daniel Rogers, about MLK, Malcolm X, self defence and nonviolence.
On his first visit to Martin Luther King Jr.’s house in Montgomery, Alabama, the journalist William Worthy began to sink into an armchair. He snapped up again when nonviolent activist Bayard Rus
The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed African-American self-defense group founded in November 1964, during the civil rights era in the United States, in the mill town of Jonesboro, Louisiana. On February 21, 1965--the day of Malcolm X's assassination--the first affiliated chapter was founded in Bogalusa, Louisiana, followed by a total of 20 other chapters in this state, Mississippi and Alabama. It was intended to protect civil rights activists and their families. They were threatened b...
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