The history of Anti-Racist Action (ARA), a militant anti-fascist organisation and predecessor to the crews often now called antifa. ARA started in 1987 with a multiracial group of teenage skinheads in Minneapolis who fought the rising white power movement. It grew into a network of groups in at least 120 towns and cities across the US and Canada. ARA’s first principle was: “We go where they go. Never let the Nazis have the streets.” They eventually applied that not only to white power organising, but to homophobic and anti-abortion organizing, and to police violence, which they saw as all connected..

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Producer and host Anna Stitt tells the story of the group in Minneapolis through vivid first-person accounts, archival audio, and music from the era. It starts under the railroad tracks in Uptown, Minneapolis and traces a movement that continues to shape the US to this day.

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Original score by Alexis “Lex Amor” Adimora
Image: Members of anti-racist skinhead group, The Baldies. Credit: Kara La Lomia
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