How to Use anti-fascist in a Sentence

anti-fascist

adjective
  • From the 1920s onwards, the novel was one of the ways in which anti-fascists challenged the right’s ascendancy.
    — David Renton may 12, Literary Hub, 12 May 2025
  • His father, an anti-fascist who is thought to have been a mine surveyor, was shot by the Nazi forces when Cavalli was just three years old.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Now the worst people in Hollywood make films about the worst people in the world (those who pretend to be anti-fascist yet are fascist themselves).
    — Armond White, National Review, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Vysotsky said experts across the country who study the anti-fascist movement are closely watching the San Diego case.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
  • This was the name of an anti-fascist and anti-xenophobic group operating in Turin in the early 2000s.
    — Manuel Borja-Villel, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2024
  • He was being targeted by the far right for his anti-racist, anti-fascist activism.
    — Ali Breland, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Meanwhile, in San Diego, two anti-fascist activists found guilty of conspiracy are each sentenced to two years in prison.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 29 June 2024
  • In 2019, he’d been outed by anti-fascist researchers and the progressive media outlet Right Wing Watch.
    — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The center was started by Italy’s Union of Women, which is a left-leaning anti-fascist feminist group that opened the center to give women a lifeline.
    — Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
  • But as a man, Oppenheimer was artistic and sensitive, a lover of poetry as much as of science, and a strident anti-fascist.
    — Christina Newland, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
  • The drinking, the street fights, the vandalism, the obsession with confronting anti-fascists and the storming of the U.S. Capitol were all, as Rehl tells it, acts of defiance against a corrupt and opaque government.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2025
  • Woody Guthrie’s children’s songs are as beautiful and as impactful as his songs about immigrant rights and his anti-fascist songs.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 28 June 2024
  • Tuesday’s performance had the casual self-portraiture of a cabaret, the variety and depth of a solid DJ set and the unabashed anti-fascist spirit of a punk show.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Keyed by a simmering performance from Fernanda Torres, the anti-fascist film was one of the more political winners of the night.
    — Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2025
  • The story of Civil War’s America is being told in images that begs these questions, but what isn’t left up to question is that the film is inherently anti-fascist.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Waters has strongly denied antisemitism, claiming that Israel is just one target of a broad, anti-fascist stage show.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Although their welcome was not as warm as in Mexico — football was less popular in the United States — Barca were once again seen as ambassadors of the anti-fascist resistance.
    — Laia Cervelló Herrero, The Athletic, 6 Aug. 2024
  • In the four female protagonists in the book, political education appears as a key element to their path to join the anti-fascist resistance.
    — Suzanne Cope july 3, Literary Hub, 3 July 2025
  • The screenplay even pays tribute to the island’s anti-fascist heritage with an elderly, trigger-happy partisan shooting from her balcony and singing Communist songs with the Mayor.
    — Alissa Simon, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • The track was a holdover from writing sessions during the first Trump administration, when Furman was working on that aforementioned anti-fascist trilogy.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 22 May 2025
  • Then a brawl between white supremacists and anti-fascist (antifa) demonstrators in Detroit ratcheted things up.
    — Laurie Udesky, USA TODAY, 6 May 2023
  • Even the most naked acts of aggression – of which Putin’s ‘special military operation’ in Ukraine is the most egregious example – brands itself, not as imperial, but as anti-fascist.
    — Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Leading up to, and during, the social justice uprisings following the murder of George Floyd, Lightfoot became fascinated by the anti-fascist movement, Hamasaki said.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Certainly, there are multiple members of these groups and people who are certainly on the other side of the political equation to these anti-fascists who are very clearly caught on camera committing crimes who have never been charged.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2024
  • However, a series of counter-protests helmed by thousands of anti-fascist protestors took place instead, leading to this sea of wonderful newspaper front pages from across the political spectrum and a feeling that the best of humanity had won out.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Over the afternoon, the anti-fascists approached and violently confronted the protesters, spraying some with pepper spray and assaulting others.
    — Will Carless, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • Police hold back anti-fascist counter protesters during a neo-Nazi anti-immigration rally outside state parliament in Melbourne on May 13.
    — Time, 14 June 2023
  • Its members have been involved in plots to murder anti-fascist activists, poison water supplies, derail trains and attack critical infrastructure.
    — Art Jipson, The Conversation, 11 June 2025
  • Bedknobs is also, lo and behold, an explicitly anti-fascist movie: Eglantine, a staunch supporter of the war effort, magically animates antique arms and armor housed in a museum to fight off literal Nazis.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Here is a summer blockbuster whose characters vigorously discuss the importance of labor unions and anti-fascist organizing, arriving just as Hollywood's real-life unions are walking picket lines.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 July 2023

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