"But a new generation of antifascists rose up to meet the renewed danger of fascism — often with masked faces and baseball bats in hand.

Yet ARA believed that fighting fascists was not enough; the underlying social conditions that gave birth to fascism must be addressed as well. Thus ARA collaborated with groups like the Love and Rage Revolutionary Anarchist Federation to build the anarchist movement. Anarchism — meaning not disorder and chaos but rather anti-state socialism in the tradition of Emma Goldman and the Spanish Revolution of 1936 — attracted renewed interest after the fall of the Soviet Union. In the 1990s, anarchists sought to “build the new world in the shell of the old” by creating alternative institutions and organizing within social movements that fought for workers’ power, racial justice, environmental justice and reproductive freedom.

Like ARA, today’s anti-fascist left can respond on two fronts: organizing to confront the immediate threat of fascist violence while also working with other social movements to build a better world."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/made-by-history/2023/01/06/anti-fascists-1980s-jan-6/