Claim: Images show a genuine Antifa manual created and distributed by the anti-fascist group.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Rosa Antifa
text: Rosa Antifa Rosa Antifa Wien für freie Liebe und Anarchie [en: Pink Anti-Fascist Group Vienna for free love and anarchy] is a left wing action group in existence since 1995. Their activists regularly appear at rallies and demonstrations, they produce pamphlets and flyers. In 1995, a group of young activists founded Rosa Antifa "simply because the homophobia predominant in our society - and sadly enough even amongst leftists - pisses us off." The activists are motivated by rage against the prejudice that gays and lesbians ought to be "cured“, that heterosexuality be "normal“ or "natural“. "We simply want to be

title: Antifa (United States)
text: was a transparent and quite pathetic attempt, but I wouldn't be surprised if white nationalist groups try to mount more sophisticated attacks in the future". A similar fake image circulated on social media after the Unite the Right rally; the doctored image, actually from a 2009 riot in Athens, was altered to make it look like someone wearing an Antifa logo attacking a member of the police with a flag. After the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, similar hoaxes falsely claimed that the shooter was a member of Antifa; another such hoax involved a fake antifa twitter account praising the shooting.

title: Antifa (United States)
text: Another high-profile fake Antifa account was banned from Twitter after it posted with a geotag originating in Russia. Such fake Antifa accounts have been repeatedly reported on as real by right-leaning media outlets. Some of the opposition to Antifa has also been artificial in nature; Nafeesa Syeed of "Bloomberg" reported that "[t]he most-tweeted link in the Russian-linked network followed by the researchers was a petition to declare Antifa a terrorist group". Antifa (United States) The Antifa () movement is a conglomeration of left wing autonomous, militant anti-fascist groups in the United States. The principal feature of antifa groups is their

title: Anti-fascism
text: Its two-flag logo, designed by Max Keilson and Max Gebhard, is still widely used as a symbol of militant anti-fascists globally. In Spain, large-scale anti-fascist movements were first seen in the 1930s, before and during the Spanish Civil War. The republican government and army, the Antifascist Worker and Peasant Militias (MAOC) linked to the Communist Party (PCE), the International Brigades, the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM), Spanish anarchist militias, such as the Iron Column and the autonomous governments of Catalonia and the Basque Country, fought the rise of Francisco Franco with military force. The Friends of Durruti, associated with

title: Post-WWII anti-fascism
text: Post-WWII anti-fascism Antifa movements () and Anti-Fascist Action networks are left wing, often anarchist, extra-parliamentary groups that describe themselves as anti-fascist. Such movements have been active in several countries in the second half of the 20th and early 21st century. "Antifaschistische Aktion", an umbrella organisation for militant anti-fascists in Germany, was formed in 1932. It was sometimes called "Antifa". Although it did not survive the war, local anti-fascist committees were formed across Germany, typically by veterans of this organisation, as Nazi rule crumbled in 1944, under the name "Antifa". These anti-fascist committees often included communists, social democrats, and progressive Christians.

title: Antifascistisk Aktion
text: National Democrats newspaper, and threatening the subscribers are counterproductive and similar to methods used by fascists. Antifascistisk Aktion Antifascistisk Aktion—abbreviated as AFA—is a far-left, extra-parliamentary, anti-fascist network in Sweden, whose stated goal is to "smash fascism in all its forms". Some of its members are influenced by the theory of triple oppression, and all of its members claim to oppose sexism, racism, and classism. The point of the organization is to exchange information and to coordinate activities between local groups. The groups' activities have included handing out flyers, organizing demonstrations, direct action, and property destruction. In line with their ideology,

title: Rose City Antifa
text: to Alexander Reid Ross, an academic specializing in anti-fascist movements, RCA grew out of the group Anti-Racist Action, which first appeared in 1987, and through RCA "the European and American models were sort of synthesized and the current model of Antifa in the US was developed". Rose City Antifa Rose City Antifa (RCA) are an anti-fascist group founded 2007 in Portland, Oregon. They have been called the oldest active antifa group in the US. Rose City Antifa has clashed with law enforcement officials and supporters of the Donald Trump presidency following the 2016 presidential election. Prior to a Patriot Prayer

title: Antifa (United States)
text: beaten by black-clad and bandana-masked antifa provide right wing extremists with a powerful propaganda tool" but goes on to state "that said, it is important to reject attempts to claim equivalence between the antifa and the white supremacist groups they oppose." There have been multiple efforts to discredit Antifa via hoaxes on social media, many of them false flag attacks originating from members of the alt-right and 4chan posing as members of Antifa on Twitter. Some of these hoaxes have been picked up and reported as fact by right-leaning media. These include an August 2017 "#PunchWhiteWomen" photo hoax campaign spread

title: The Freedom Fighter's Manual
text: The Freedom Fighter's Manual The Freedom Fighter's Manual is the title of a fifteen-page propaganda booklet that was manufactured by the United States Central Intelligence Agency and airdropped over Nicaragua in 1983, with the stated goal of providing a "Practical guide to liberating Nicaragua from oppression and misery by paralyzing the military-industrial complex of the traitorous marxist state". The manual explains several methods by which the average citizen could cause civil disorder. A Contra fighter gave the manual to a U.S. reporter in Honduras in 1984. The publication describes many ways in which the average citizen could disrupt the everyday

title: Antifaschistische Aktion
text: Antifaschistische Aktion Antifaschistische Aktion (), abbreviated as Antifa (), is an anti-fascist network in Germany. The first German movement to call itself "Antifaschistische Aktion" was proclaimed by the German Communist Party (KPD) in their newspaper "Rote Fahne" in 1932 and held its first rally in Berlin on 10 July 1932, then capital of the Weimar Republic. Its two-flag logo, designed by Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists members Max Keilson and Max Gebhard, remains a widely used symbol of militant anti-fascism. The late 1920s and early 1930s saw rising tensions between Nazis and leftists. Berlin in particular was the site of

title: Antifaschistische Aktion
text: American Antifa of the early 21st-century has drawn its aesthetics and some of its tactics from the original German organization. Antifaschistische Aktion Antifaschistische Aktion (), abbreviated as Antifa (), is an anti-fascist network in Germany. The first German movement to call itself "Antifaschistische Aktion" was proclaimed by the German Communist Party (KPD) in their newspaper "Rote Fahne" in 1932 and held its first rally in Berlin on 10 July 1932, then capital of the Weimar Republic. Its two-flag logo, designed by Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists members Max Keilson and Max Gebhard, remains a widely used symbol of militant anti-fascism.

title: Antifa (United States)
text: the other hand, historian and political organizer Mark Bray has said "Given the historical and current threat that white supremacist and fascist groups pose, it's clear to me that organized, collective self-defense is not only a legitimate response, but lamentably an all-too-necessary response to this threat on too many occasions." Alexander Reid Ross, a lecturer in geography and an author on the contemporary right, has said that antifa groups represented "one of the best models for channeling the popular reflexes and spontaneous movements towards confronting fascism in organized and focused ways." Eleanor Penny, an author on fascism and the far-right,

title: Fascism (book)
text: section on "abortive fascisms" with writings from Britain, Spain, France and numerous other countries in Europe, Africa and South America. A section is devoted to "theories of fascism," and the book concludes with a collation of post-war writings. Fascism (book) Fascism is a book edited by political theorist Roger Griffin. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 as a 410-page paperback. It is a reader in the Oxford Readers series, which assembles the writings of various authors on the topic of fascism and the far-right. It serves as an English-language source book to introduce readers to pre-fascist anti-liberalism,

title: Antifascistisk Aktion
text: Antifascistisk Aktion Antifascistisk Aktion—abbreviated as AFA—is a far-left, extra-parliamentary, anti-fascist network in Sweden, whose stated goal is to "smash fascism in all its forms". Some of its members are influenced by the theory of triple oppression, and all of its members claim to oppose sexism, racism, and classism. The point of the organization is to exchange information and to coordinate activities between local groups. The groups' activities have included handing out flyers, organizing demonstrations, direct action, and property destruction. In line with their ideology, and as a consequence of being constantly monitored by the police, the group has no central

title: Fascism (book)
text: Fascism (book) Fascism is a book edited by political theorist Roger Griffin. It was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 as a 410-page paperback. It is a reader in the Oxford Readers series, which assembles the writings of various authors on the topic of fascism and the far-right. It serves as an English-language source book to introduce readers to pre-fascist anti-liberalism, interwar fascism in Italy and Germany, as well as associated international variants of fascism from Argentina to Japan. Griffin attempts a comprehensive survey of the far-right throughout the 20th century, including topics as diverse as radical ecologism, neo-paganism,

title: League of Militant Atheists
text: An 'Antireligious Textbook for Peasants' was produced between 1927 and 1931, with a circulation of 18,000 for the first edition and 200,000 for the sixth. A similar textbook for urban people was created in 1931, followed by a universal amalgamated textbook. LMG member, I. A. Shpitsberg began publishing a scholarly journal in the late 1920s called "Ateist". It was changed to "Voinstvuiuschii ateizm" (Militant Atheism) in 1931 and it was published by the LMG central council. In 1932 it was swallowed up by Antireligioznik. From 1928 to 1932, a journal for peasants named "Derevenskii bezbozhnik" (The Rural Godless) was produced.

title: Treccani
text: supplementary volumes were published between 1938 and 2015. The director was Giovanni Gentile and redactor in chief Antonino Pagliaro. Most of the articles are signed with the initials of the author. An essay credited to Benito Mussolini entitled "The Doctrine of Fascism" was included in the 1932 edition of the encyclopedia, although it was ghost-written by Gentile. Many editors, like Roberto Almagià, Ugo Amaldi, Guido Calogero, Federico Chabod, Gaetano De Sanctis, Luigi Einaudi, Federigo Enriques, Enrico Fermi, Henry Furst, Ugo La Malfa, Giorgio Levi Della Vida, Walter Maturi, Bruno Migliorini, Rodolfo Mondolfo and Nello Rosselli were Jewish or opponents of

title: Antifa (United States)
text: ARA disrupted a speech in Pennsylvania by Matthew F. Hale, the head of the white supremacist group World Church of the Creator, resulting in a fight and twenty-five arrests. Other antifa groups in the U.S. have other genealogies, for example in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where a group called the Baldies was formed in 1987 with the intent to fight neo-Nazi groups directly. Although various antifascist movements have existed in the United States since the beginning of fascism, the word antifa, adopted from German usage, only came into prominence as an umbrella term in English in 2017. The ADL makes a point

title: Anti-fascism
text: small groups of armed men and women (called the "maquis" in rural areas), who, in addition to their guerrilla warfare activities, were also publishers of underground newspapers and magazines such as "Arbeiter und Soldat" ("Worker and Soldier") during World War 2, providers of first-hand intelligence information, and maintainers of escape networks. The rise of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF) in the 1930s was challenged by the Communist Party of Great Britain, socialists in the Labour Party and Independent Labour Party, anarchists, Irish Catholic dockmen and working class Jews in London's east end. A high point in the struggle

title: Anti-fascism
text: of fascist leader Benito Mussolini. After the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) signed a pacification pact with Mussolini and his Fascist Revolutionary Party (PFR) on 3 August 1921, and trade unions adopted a legalist and pacified strategy, members of the workers' movement who disagreed with this strategy formed the "Arditi del popolo". The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) and the PSI refused to officially recognize the anti-fascist militia, while the Italian Communist Party (PCI) ordered its members to quit the organization. The PCI organized some militant groups, but their actions were relatively minor, and the party maintained a non-violent, legalist strategy.