page_title: Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee
section_title: Sister organisations
hierarchical_section_title: Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee / Sister organisations
caption_attribution_description: English: Arnold Meri and Johan Bäckman on 19 January 2008. In the backgroung a portrait of Lydia Koidula. Русский: Йохан Бекман (слева) и Герой Советского Союза Арнольд Мери Suomi: Arnold Meri ja Johan Bäckman tammikuun 19. 2008. Taustalla Lydia Koidulan muotokuva
context_page_description: The Finnish Anti-Fascist Committee, also known by its Finnish abbreviation SAFKA, is a radical political organisation operating in Finland, founded in November 2008, but never registered. According to the Chairperson Johan Bäckman the Committee has twenty activists and about a hundred supporters.
  In their first manifest from December 2008, they condemned the following phenomena as fascist: school shootings, political activism against the Paris Peace Treaty, as well as the death of the political left. Some members of the group consider the 1917 Bolshevik revolution as "social progress" and views the Soviet Union as a "utopia that was realized in the Swedish welfare state".
  The group has been heavily criticized in the Estonian media as being "neo-Stalinist". The number of activists in the group is not announced, however at least Johan Bäckman, Leena Hietanen, Petri Krohn and Tommi Lievemaa are members.
context_section_description: SAFKA has sister organisations in the Baltic states, including the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee, the  Latvian Anti-Fascist Committee and Nochnoy Dozor.
caption: Committee member Johan Bäckman with Arnold Meri, chairman of the Estonian Anti-Fascist Committee
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