Antifa originated in 1930s Germany … where, obviously, plenty of people were not against Nazis or fascists.
Antifa today is still pretty firmly focused on anti-fascist action.
Antifa today is still pretty firmly focused on anti-fascist action.
I'm not a historian, but understanding is that there isn't real continuity between that antifa (labor and communist anti-Nazi groups) and the modern antifa (the punk-direct-action-aesthetic antifa), which came about much later in the century, but that the name and association was adopted intentionally.