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Antifa Antidote
Saturday, December 20, 2025 @ 3:17 PM

From CBS News: What is Antifa? ‘In the USA, the right-wing media blames antifa members for rioting and looting. Democrats have also condemned such violence, but many on the left say the rhetoric about antifa (i.e., anti-fascist) is greatly exaggerated, and that it's less of an organized movement than just something of "an idea."

Swiss Info says: ‘Antifa, designated by US President Donald Trump as a "domestic terrorist organization," is a diffuse "anti-fascist" movement of left-wing activists that experts say is more of a political ideology than an organized group…’ We read: ‘Antifa, from the word anti-fascism, was already in use in Germany in the early 1930s, where "anti-fa" socialist groups tried to oppose the rise of Adolf Hitler's Nazis…’ 

For some reason, perhaps to escape the obvious point that our fathers and grandfathers fought, precisely, against fascism in the 1940s, the American right pronounces it ‘antee-fuh’ rather than ‘anti-fah’!

But much of what politicians say about antifa isn't quite true. Here's what antifa is and what it isn't.

Antifa is not a highly organized movement, nor is it merely an idea. Antifa is a loose affiliation of local activists scattered across the United States and a few other countries.

‘In general, people who identify as antifa are known not for what they support, but what they oppose: Fascism, nationalism, far-right ideologies, white supremacy, authoritarianism, racism, homophobia and xenophobia…’

Flag shaggers, antifeminists and fake-news merchants.

Some of us don’t like cockroaches either.

Here in Spain (where no one had ever heard of it until now) La Razón recently ran a piece titled ‘Antifa: the masked figures who want to stifle public debate. The United States is pushing to outlaw them, Spain to welcome them’.

Apparently, if you believe La Razón, which you most certainly shouldn’t, the country is swarming with them. The Spanish ABC posted in October: ‘Trump orders foreign anti-fascists to be designated as terrorist groups. A Trump advisor tells him to look at who belongs to these groups in Spain’.

No one - is the short answer to that, because it’s an opinion rather than an entity. 

Nevertheless, because it’s worth a shot, the Trump-admirer Santiago Abascal, the leader of Vox, has recently called for antifa to be declared as a terrorist organisation in Spain: the proposal to be debated in the National Parliament in February.

Perhaps, on sober reflection, what we really need to do is to ban the anti-antifa program.

And so we come to 'Polarisation'.

According to Google AI, ‘Political polarization is the growing ideological gap where political groups and individuals move away from moderate views towards extreme ends of the spectrum, creating deep divisions, increased hostility, and difficulty finding common ground…’ 20Minutos says ‘The scar of polarization: five million Spanish people have broken with family or friends due to political motives’. Their recent questionnaire asks if it’s happened to you. And then along comes Campofrío (the ham people) with their Christmas advert: Let’s get together and bury our differences (video)…

(I think they could have maybe dropped Ana Rosa Quintana from the advert).

I suppose - as Vox appears to be gaining support - my main worry is this:

Is Ol’ Santi planning a Spanish version of ICE (the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement) where lump-heads get to wear combat gear and a mask as they round up anyone who looks like he didn’t come over in the Mayflower; maybe make it a more Spanish version, something like Franco himself would have approved of?

He'll need the approval of whoever will be running the PP when Spain next goes to the polls. 



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11 Comments


jdb4 said:
Saturday, December 27, 2025 @ 9:36 AM

👎


MartynPKing said:
Saturday, December 27, 2025 @ 9:48 AM

The usual left wing twaddle that I've come to expect from this site.


PablodeRonda said:
Saturday, December 27, 2025 @ 10:11 AM

Sorry, MartynPKing, why is the truth always dismissed by people of the right as wrong? I don't see any arguments from you to support your opposite point of view. The only positive thing about your post is that you have put your name to it (or is it a pseudonym?)
BTW, should you seek to criticise me for hiding behind the nickname 'Pablo de Ronda', as everyone knows my real name is Paul Whitelock. My nickname is Pablo and I live in Ronda (17 years and counting).


lenox said:
Saturday, December 27, 2025 @ 12:17 PM

Sorry to disappoint. I'll try and write something about the far right to cheer up those doubters who find their way here. Maybe a homage to Fartage, or Trump (before he goes).


roberto123 said:
Saturday, December 27, 2025 @ 3:34 PM

just twaddle


BrainwashReigns said:
Saturday, December 27, 2025 @ 9:59 PM

MartynPKing
Reading the twaddle of Lenox and Pablo is good exercise for my upper spine as it causes me to intensively shake my head.
The desperation they get into whenever someone disagrees with their opinion is astonishing and if they reply they twaddle as childish.
Like the flat-earthers, they claim to know what reality is (come to think of it, maybe they do believe the Earth is flat as well).
If they are not paid for their political propaganda they should apply for it, after all it is well known that a certain ideology is funding this sort of activity as well.


PablodeRonda said:
Sunday, December 28, 2025 @ 5:46 AM

lenox. I would block these idiots who are clearly trolls. They have nothing positive to contribute. I've already blocked BrainwashReigns from my blogs and if MartynPKing and roberto123 aren't careful, they'll be gone too! I'm no fan of censorship, but I'm afraid their unsupported tirades are tedious and have no place on Eye on Spain. I can't understand why the administrators of EoS don't act.


BrainwashReigns said:
Monday, December 29, 2025 @ 10:45 PM

Lenox
You don't seem to realize how you gave yourself away again, especially with calling anyone that disagrees with your extremist views "doubters", meaning there could not be any doubt that your twaddle and opinion is fact-based.
In case you don't follow Pablo's advice and block me, I would like to read what you have to say about the success of Farage and that of Trump, including what your crystal ball says by what time he will be gone.
You might as well do a bit of real research and write about what antifa actually is instead of parroting what "many on the left say" and just copy articles from biased sources.



BrainwashReigns said:
Wednesday, December 31, 2025 @ 11:33 PM

Pablo,
Here my last comment that you deleted:

"The "Guiri" Gourmet, what you meant to say is something like "I am unable handle your comments, therefore I have to block you"
Once again you prove that your opinions are just that, nothing to do with facts, when you claim to know what raclette is.
Actually I do know what I am talking about as this food was quite now and then, when my parents could afford to buy the cheese, on the table when I was a kid.
To answer your question as who would want to eat it: for instance people who could not afford dishes with expensive meat or fish often.
Apparently, for the well off society that was not good enough, so at some time they added meat and fish and simply kept the name.
Don't you actually feel somewhat arrogant telling me I don't know what I am talking about?
Anyway, being blocked to comment on your scribblings saves me from being tempted to point out some of your illusions and wasting my time.
And don't forget to continue copyrighting all your posts, otherwise your works would certainly be stolen".

And this was not my first comment that you deleted!
Several times I asked you an explicit question, none of which you ever dared to answer. Of course you couldn't afford to answer as it would clearly have shown how twisted your arguing is.
I would have a few more explicit questions to you, but with you blocking me saves you from foaming at the mouth. You might not be a fan of censoring, you just doing it.
So let me finally do a contribution, although it is not your preferred one of agreeing with you:
You might not have noticed that your text editor is buggy and that it randomly changes font size. This could be regarded as if you are doing it yourself, for whatever reason, and could lead to your authority being questioned. Therefore you better get an updated version where this bug is fixed.


lenox said:
Thursday, January 1, 2026 @ 9:44 AM

Hello Braindead. I think you wrote the above (for some reason misaddressed to me), before you got around to making your new year's resolutions for 2026.
Anyway, in the hope that you will be turning over a new leaf, here's hoping for a Better New Year for you, for me, and for all Eye on Spain contributors and readers.


BrainwashReigns said:
Saturday, January 3, 2026 @ 10:11 PM

Lenox
Unlike you, your pal Pablo calls me an idiot. But to be an idiot still requires *some* brain activity, so his grading of me must be too high.
Actually I was somewhat surprised that you didn't give in to Pablos' request to delete my comment.
You are right, I didn't make a new year's resolution before I wrote it and I never do. My planning is done as I go and not just at a certain time of the year.



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