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Anti-Communist Action is an alt-right organization based in the United States and Canada that declares itself to be the "right's response" to the Antifa.
Background
According to the Seattle, WA Patch, the organization is not specifically aligned with the White Power Movement. While the group has stated that it accepts members of all races, leaked chat logs included violent rhetoric against minorities in the organization. A chat log from the 2017 Berkeley protests promised the event would turn into a "bloodbath". Some members of the movement have promoted mass killing against minorities and the overthrow of the government.
In 2017, ProPublica estimated the organization as having 1,200 participants in its chat room. The organization uses yellow and black flags and symbols as a reference to libertarianism in the United States. Some flags also depict people being thrown from helicopters, a reference to executions during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship of Chile (1973–1990). A ProPublica report detailed leaked chat logs from the organization calling for violence. A representative for the group stated that the report was true, but that it was not encouraged by leaders of the organization.
Villainy
- It has associations with the National Socialist Movement, Traditionalist Workers Party, Vanguard America, League of the South, Atomwaffen Division, August Sol Invictus, Richard B. Spencer and the Ku Klux Klan.
- The group was the lead member of the Unite the Right rally.
- The group was a lead organizer of the 2017 White Lives Matter rally.
- The Anticom had shared information on combat and bomb-making to the Atomwaffen Division.
- Members of the movement have promoted mass killing against minorities.