Anti-fascism facts for kids

Anti-fascist three arrows symbol

Anti-fascism is the opposition to fascist ideologies, organizations, governments and people. Anti-fascism started in Europe in the 1920s. At the same time, fascist political parties were getting popular in Europe. Anti-fascism was most popular during and after World War II, when fascist governments were very powerful in Europe. Many different kinds of political parties have believed in anti-fascism. Some of these parties have been Marxist, nationalist, anarchist, socialist, pacifist, social democratic, conservative, and liberal.

Images for kids

An Italian partisan in Florence, 14 August 1944
Dutch resistance members with U.S. 101st Airborne troops in Eindhoven, September 1944
1931 badge of a member of Concentrazione Antifascista Italiana
1928 Roter Frontkämpferbund rally in Berlin. Organized by the Communist Party of Germany the RFB had at its height over 100,000 members
Iron Front Three Arrows through the NSDAP Swastika
Anarchists in Barcelona. The civil war was fought between the anarchist territories and stateless lands that achieved workers' self-management, and capitalist areas of Spain controlled by the autocratic Nationalist faction
Woman with a rifle, soldier of Mujeres Libres, Confederal militias Barcelona, 1936 Spanish Civil War.
Maquis members in 1944
American singer-songwriter and anti-fascist Woody Guthrie and his guitar labelled "This machine kills fascists"
Proclamation of the Anti-Fascist Bloc, 15 May 1942
Anti-fascist graffiti in Trnava, Slovakia
Antifascist sticker in Warsaw, Poland.