antifascism
- noun
- /ˌæntiˈfæʃɪzəm/
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antifascismo
- The rise of antifascism in recent years has been a response to the increasing visibility of far-right movements.
Examples
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For example, Quintana is tried by a mock military court; gang members all wear symbols and insignia of rank. They also adopt the vocabulary of antifascism, which they neither understand nor question, and they use the term faccioso to define the enemy.
Academic text (1990) -
Cardenas, for example, coupled his nationalistic policies with a militant antifascism which "fitted perfectly with Roosevelt's hemispheric and world strategies."
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The American volunteers paid a terrible price for their premature antifascism.
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In Madrid, it fits into a landscape of antifascism; this is how Picasso must have envisioned it.
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Lomax was on the bandwagon of American democracy and antifascism long before the war, largely because of his Popular Front sympathies.
Academic text (2013) -
Thus, competitiveness, antifascism, anticonformism, and gender had indirect but measurable effects on censorship.
Academic text (1999) -
Does the imposition upon the university of social and political policy, such as anticommunism, antifascism, antiracism, antisexism, and other democratic issues, unduly restrict the necessary exercise of free inquiry?
Academic text (1990) -
In this context, Warner Bros. came under scrutiny due to its strong commitment to the New Deal and antifascism in the 1930s—and particularly due to the pro-Soviet film Mission to Moscow (1943), released during the wartime Grand Alliance.
Academic text (2017) -
Many activists today are dedicated to antifascism, organizing protests to oppose oppressive regimes.
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In university discussions, antifascism often emerges as a key topic regarding social justice and human rights.
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A group that opposes fascism and far-right politics
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Etymology
Antifascism combines anti- meaning 'against' and fascism, the name of a political movement that began in Italy and comes from a word for a 'bundle' or 'group'. So, antifascism is the belief and organized action 'against' that kind of strong, unfair government.