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  • noun Plural form of antifascist.

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Examples

  • If anything, Wexley's antifascists are overly romanticized, while his Nazis and collaborators are overly demonized.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • It may shock these self-declared antifascists to learn that it was Hitler who introduced the first of May as a public holiday in Germany.

    Mayday for Capitalism 2009

  • In Forever Activists (1990), Bay-area Oscar nominee Judy Montell told with guts and passion of the “premature antifascists” — the mostly Jewish veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade who, as both Jews and leftists, fought against Franco in Spain.

    Filmmakers, Independent North American. 2009

  • Deported from Germany twice, in 1932 and 1934, for her mocking book I Met Hitler, Thompson became one of the most outspoken antifascists, as well as one of the most widely read and influential journalists of her generation.

    Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

  • Bit late now Beeboids to temporarily remove the peg from your nose, or this morning with the touchy-feely-we're all antifascists now story of the old British commies/stalinists given Spanish citizenship, or the ridiculously positive reporting of Gordon Brown's position.

    THROUGH THE EYES OF A FOOL 2009

  • The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights and Sova estimate Russia is home to about 70,000 skinheads -- including neo-Nazis, antifascists, and those who merely dress the part wearing heavy laceup boots, black bomber jackets and buzzcuts.

    Russia Becomes More Dangerous for Immigrants 2008

  • Indeed, it would have been obscene to assert that the claims of Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan had equal validity with those of the Jews and other antifascists, in the first case, and Martin Luther King, Jr., in the second.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights and Sova estimate Russia is home to about 70,000 skinheads -- including neo-Nazis, antifascists, and those who merely dress the part wearing heavy laceup boots, black bomber jackets and buzzcuts.

    Neo-Nazi skinhead attacks surge in Russia 2008

  • Mr. Kulekhov, the journalist, calls its members troublemakers because many dub themselves "antifa" -- radical antifascists who have a history of clashing with racist skinheads at soccer matches.

    A Killing in Siberia Injures 2007

  • There is a persistent story that people who stood up to fascism in the 1930s, before World War II took shape, were later condemned as “premature antifascists.”

    Premature Sanity 2006

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