You鈥檝e heard of alt-right for sure, but how about antifa or the anti-fascism movement?
Extremism doesn鈥檛 just belong to the far right. Those on the far left are rejecting the mainstream left and fighting extremism with extremism, says Ameil Joseph, a professor of social work at McMaster University who studies race and activism.
The antifa movement has its roots in Europe in the 1930s, when radicals took a 鈥減aramilitary approach鈥� to fighting Nazism, says Joseph. It was also found in the actions of the Black Panthers in the American civil rights era.
Today, it鈥檚 found in groups like Black Lives Matter or the indigenous protests against the Dakota pipeline, Joseph told CTV's Your Morning.
鈥淭here is the belief that the left hasn鈥檛 done enough to fight fascism, corruption, widespread centralized executive ordering and that a more radical approach is necessary.鈥�
