American Iron Front

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The logo of the American Iron Front with an American styled design to it featuring the three arrows labeled after the German Iron Front

The American Iron Front or Iron Front USA is a radical left wing loose network of individuals that was created in 2019 as an inspiration to the original Iron Front to stop what they call the "rise of far right wing extremism" in the United States. The loose network mentions to have international ties with local antifascist and anarchist groups but relies solely on opposing authoritarian views. They claim to be patriotic and have love for America while advocating for a democratic and stateless society without authority with whom they believed the founding fathers fought for.

Origin

A few years after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 and after Donald Trump's 2017 presidential election victory, individuals from various radical leftist movements came together to form the American Iron Front in response to "right wing extremism". They intended to incorporate ideas from the revolutionary leftist Iron Front that opposed Adolf Hitler and the national Socialists in the late 1920's through direct action using violent tactics and intimidation. They took the 3 arrows from the German Iron Front and used it as their symbol representing opposition to Fascism, Communism, and Monarchy.

Information

The American Iron Front mainly operates throughout different parts of the United States picking which target to harass and to identify each individual by who they are from different nationalist movements and to find more about the person to have them "exposed". They communicate and work on different platforms such as Reddit where info on recent events is passed along and posted to supporters and followers for them to express disgust and rant in the comment section advocating for violence. Iron Front USA describes itself as "pro-democracy and anti-fascist" criticizing nationalism as a threat to society. The propaganda they create and their primary focus mainly targets third positionists and right wingers with barely any mentions of opposition towards left-wing and Communist viewpoints.

Ideology

The American Iron Front seeks to take inspiration from the original German leftist revolutionary movement and combine it's past ideas with American characteristics and Patriotism. Like other radical left leaning movements and organizations, they do not care about America and it's people while claiming to "fight for others freedom" when they are pushing towards a violent revolution and censorship. They are more focused on fighting Fascism and anything that has to do with Right-wing politics while focusing less on combating Communist ideology rejecting a bit of the German Iron Fronts idea of fighting all ideas at once.

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