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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.
Villainy edit
- It has associations with the National Socialist Movement, Traditionalist Workers Party, Vanguard America, League of the South, Atomwaffen Division, Augustus 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.
- Leaked chat logs of the organizations revealed various violent rhetoric against racial minorities, but the group has stated that it accepts members of all races.
- During the 2017 Berkeley protests, the organization "promised" that event would turn into a "bloodbath".
Trivia edit
- The organization uses yellow and black flags and symbols as a reference to libertarianism in the United States and people being thrown from helicopters (a reference to executions during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship of Chile).
- In 2017, ProPublica estimated the organization as having 1,200 participants in its chat room.
- Although the organization had openly expressed great hatred towards minorities of other races, the organization isn't specifically aligned with the White Power Movement, according to the Seattle, WA Patch.