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Dr_Diskette 6/25/2022 9:37 PM
The Iron Front (German: Eiserne Front) was an anti-Nazi paramilitary organization formed in the Weimar Republic by social democrats, trade unionists, and liberals. It was formed on 16 December 1931 by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) with the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB), the Reichsbanner and workers’ sports clubs to counter the right-wing Harzburg Front formed by the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), the Stahlhelm, and the German National People’s Party (DNVP). The organization sought to engage the old Reichsbanner, the SPD youth organization, and labor and liberal groups as a united front. The SPD rallied to the Iron Front, held mass demonstrations, fought Nazis in the streets, and armed themselves. This is more than the SPD leaders wanted, but SPD workers grew increasingly revolutionary. In 1933, the organization was banned. Its logo, the Antifascist Circle (three-lined-arrows, pointing southwest/to the lower-left inside a circle) was designed by Sergei Tschachotin, former assistant to the physiologist Ivan Pavlov in 1931. Designed to be able to easily cover Naziswastikas, the meaning of the three arrows has been variously interpreted. The present-day Reichsbanner association says the arrows of the logo stood for the SPD, the trade unions, and the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold as well as for the political, economic, and physical strength of the working class. The symbol was used on a November 1932 Reichstag election poster of the SPD to represent opposition to monarchist, fascist and communist parties.
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Dr_Diskette 6/26/2022 12:25 AM
The American Iron Front (AIF) is an anti-fascist, pro-democracy, non-violent activist network who oppose far-right activity in the USA. They support anti-racism, anti-fascism, and encourage general inclusion of all. At the present time the group has not been tied to any violence in their activities. They claim they aren't leftist looking for a Marxist revolution or abolition of organized government, but are against the far-right extremist groups presently being encourage by the policies and behavior of the Trump administration. According to one of the founders of the American Iron Front "We're a more patriotic faction of the broader anti-fascist movement, also known as the Antifa Movement. I created the AIF so as to give more politically moderate people an outlet for anti-fascist activism who may otherwise be weary of it due to the various controversies and public image issues it has. We do not have a set ideology, and include a wide variety of people, including Libertarians, Liberals, social democrats, and democratic socialists. One ideology we are vehemently against (besides fascism, of course) is authoritarian communism, like Stalinism, Maoism, and Juche. (Non-authoritarian communists we generally are okay with.)" The symbol they have adopted - three arrows pointing inside a circle - dates back to pre-World War II Germany when it represented an actual leftist political organization, also named the Iron Front, that stood in direct opposition to Nazis and has today persisted as a visual representation of anti-fascism. Pete Loeser
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Dr_Diskette 6/26/2022 12:05 PM
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