charlottesville antics

[grue]

please don't say alt-left, I cringe everytime

I've been hearing about "the antifa" for years. Now I didn't see that VICE piece, so maybe I'm missing something that's happening in america, but for me "antifa" has always been a blanket term for any and all fringe groups that organize to meet fascists on the streets. That includes militant communists* and anarchists, disenfranchised left-wingers, pacifists, you name it. Edit: ie, comparing a wide net of fringe groups with different levels of organization to the supporters of the german national socialist party seems very erroneous. Antifa is a concept; Nazi is a political stance.

I've heard of the ACLU and afaik they've been on the spot before with the left. Something similar, but I can't properly remember. Are they liberal? I thought they were more libertarian-leaning.

*all communists are militant tbh