Anti Racist Action
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The Anti-Racist Action (ARA) is violent Left wing group made up of communists, anarchists and so-called anti-racists in the United States and Canada. ARA members organize violent actions to disrupt rightist and physically attack nationalist and other on the right.
[edit] History
ARA started in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1987 and has expanded to different communities in the United States and Canada. Members of Love and Rage, a revolutionary anarchist organization played a major role in building ARA groups and the ARA Network in the 1990s. Some ARA groups have been associated with the punk subcultures, and have worked with organizations such as Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP). In Canada, ARA members were involved in several violent incidents in the 1990s, including a 1993 brawl on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, during which ARA members fought with members of the Heritage Front. Several Heritage Front members, including former RaHoWa lead singer George Burdi, were arrested. ARA staged a subsequent protest in Toronto on June 11, 1993 outside the rented house of Heritage Front spokesman,Gary Schipper. During the protest, several individuals smashed windows and threw objects,including paint and feces into the house. Following this event, members of the Heritage Front, including, Wolfgang Droege, confronted members of the ARA outside of Sneaky Dee's bar in Toronto, resulting in the arrest and conviction of Droege and several of his associates for aggravated assault.
On August 5th 2007, the Toronto Anti Racist Action organized a protest of young skinheads in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada, as usual it accomplished nothing and they decried it as a great victory against Fascism.
