A seminar titled “Global Antifa” is being taught this semester at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center.
According to the educational watchdog organization Defending Education, which obtained the syllabus for the course through a Freedom of Information Act request in October, the seminar “begins from the premise that racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing, challenging, and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule over the last century.”
The syllabus further describes the course’s aim of surveying and drawing on “these antifascist traditions, linking them to a deep engagement with racial justice, antiimperialist movements, intersectional feminism, and an analysis of the changing character and contradictions of capitalism.”
Though a college course, “Global Antifa” ostensibly encourages activism on behalf of the anti-fascist cause. It is likewise focused on “militant co-research” a discipline promoting students to develop their own “research projects that contribute to the work of global movements fighting fascism.”
Dr. Jess Adams, professor at Newcastle University and author of a manual on militant co-research, claims someone may want to practice militant research in order “To create political change… To stay focused on social justice… To achieve specific political goals [and] To experience joy in our day-to-day lives.”
Turning Point USA Frontlines has reported extensively on the subject of anti-fascism and the operations of its activists in the US. Recently, the team held a panel discussing the literature used by Antifa along with other communication strategies to help the group achieve its goals.
