LEARN TEACH FIGHT

The Original Raised Fist

This organization was a para military wing and an enforcer of the Communist Party in Germany: the Roter Front. They symbol seems to advance para-military ideals in our modern left-flexion.

Within the above symbol you see the symbol of the goat. Or I do. Right at the base of the wrist.

The following information on the Roter Front is from Wiki Military. I believe it is the first known use of the fist. It was associated with a people’s military enforcement wing of the communist party. Is it different now?

“Formation

Until 1923 the Communist Party of Germany could depend on the Proletarian Hundreds (German language: Proletarische Hundertschaften) to secure their meetings and demonstrations. After the ban of this organization in 1923, the Communist Party of Germany was in need to protect their political activities against attacks from the police and right-wing paramilitary organizations such as the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten and the Sturmabteilung.^[2] During the 9th national conference of the Communist Party of Germany in April 1924 it was decided to form a new defense organization, under the name Roter Frontkämpfer-Bund. The goal was to attract non-communist workers and lead them as a united front. The incidents in the City of Halle/Saale on May 11, 1924, where 8 workers were killed and 16 seriously wounded by shots fired by the police during a demonstration, the decision was made public to all local organizations of the party and soon after the first local RFB-groups were formed. Most of these first RFB-units were located in industrial cities, seaports and other traditional strongholds of the working class.

RFB meeting in Berlin, May 1928

Development

Founded as a proletarian defense organization for the working class, over the years the RFB engaged more and more in violent street fights with the police, the National Socialist German Workers Party's Sturmabteilung (SA) as well as other political rivals.^{[citation needed]} In 1929, after their participation in the bloody protests following the ban on the celebrating International Workers' Day in Berlin 1929, during which more than 30 people were shot and killed by the police, the organization was banned and all its assets confiscated by the government.^{[citation needed]} At the time of the ban, the RFB had close to 130,000 members^{[citation needed]} of which a large part continued their activities illegally or in local successor organizations such as the Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus (English: Fighting-Alliance Against Fascism), while others retired from the political scene.^{[citation needed]} Later historians claimed that RFB members often joined the ranks of the SA. However, it is disputed.^[3]

Under the Third Reich

After the takeover of the political power in Germany by Hitler and his National Socialists in 1933, former RFB-members were among the first arrested and incarcerated in the concentration camps of the Sturmabteilung (SA).^{[citation needed]} The Nazis were seeking revenge on their former rivals and many of the Red Front-Fighters lost their lives in the Nazi prisons.^{[citation needed]}

Of those who survived or were able to avoid arrest, many followed the call of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) and joined the Centuria Thälmann of the International Brigades to fight against the Nationalists led by General Francisco Franco. During World War II former Red Front-Fighters were fighting within the ranks of the Soviet Red Army against Nazi Germany.^{[citation needed]}

After the war

After the end of World War II former RFB-members such as Erich Honecker and Erich Mielke were actively involved in the creation of the first police and military units of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). In East Germany the Arbeiterkampfgruppen (English: Combat Groups of the Working Class) and the Nationale Volksarmee (English: National People's Army) claimed to carry on the traditions of the RFB,^{[citation needed]} while the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany enforced the ban of 1929 and prosecuted former Red Front-Fighters admitting to their activities as members of the RFB.^{[citation needed]}

Membership and organisation

Members

While many RFB-groups were under the leadership of a member of the Communist Party of Germany, most Red Front-Fighters were non-party members and some were even members of the Social Democratic Party of Germany or other political organizations.

Activities

"Protection and Security"

A large part of the RFB activities were directed at supporting the political propaganda work of the Communist Party of Germany (German language: Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD)), the Rote Hilfe (English: ”Red Help”) and other proletarian organizations such as workers unions. In most cases they provided a security-service for the various events but also participated in the active agitation. Hardened by their harsh work and living conditions, the RFB men engaged in acts of violence against the police and the political rivals who tried to disrupt rallies.

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Numerous events ended in mass brawls between the police and members of the ‘‘RFB’’ leaving injured on both sides and in some cases dead. Arrested RFB members could depend on the Rote Hilfe (English: ”Red Help”) for legal support and also, in case of sentencing to prison, for financial support of their families during the time they were unable to work.

During the years of its existence the rivalry between the warring organizations such as the Sturmabteilung, the Stahlhelm and the Reichsbanner grew constantly and violence intensified. Since the strategy of the Sturmabteilung (SA) was to fight and provoke, violent encounters between members of these two organizations soon became a part of everyday life. The SA strenghtened in the working-class districts which supported either the Social Democratic Party of Germany ‘‘SPD’’ or the Communist Party of Germany ‘‘KPD’’ but not the ‘‘brown’’ Nazi Party the Sturmabteilung (SA) stood for.

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”Social Justice and Peace”

Most public manifestations were openly directed against the politics of the German government and their involvement with powerful German industrials. They demanded the preservation of peace and denounced plans for a new war. Most members of the ‘’RFB’’ also supported the call of the left-wing ‘’KPD’’ for a change of the social system to the role model of the young Soviet Union. The ‘’RFB’’ therefore was soon considered an ‘’enemy of the state’’, leading to several temporary bans of its announced parades and meetings.

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References

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1. ↑ Also sometimes Rotfrontkämpferbund.

2. ↑ Eve Rosenhaft, Beating the Fascists?: The German Communists and Political Violence 1929-1933, Cambridge University Press, 25 Aug 1983, p.4

3. ↑ Aycoberry, Pierre (1998). The Social History of the Third Reich, 1933–1945. New York: New Press. p. 19. ISBN 1-56584-549-8.”

The right does not have a paramilitary organization to support the right. They have peaceful prayer in front of abortion clinics; petitions the excessive covid mandates; pastors feeding the homeless during covid; parents speaking at School Board meetings. It is an odd juxtaposition.

If there would be a possible change to the fist in the air that the people could adopt it with our approach to the Soros et al. Globalists it might be one with the middle finger raised.

You know: CBDC? Pandemic Treaty? Smart City Infrastructure? Loss of Free Speech? Censorship? Globalist wars? Hunger? Euthanasia? Fullterm and perinatal abortion? loss of parental rights? 15 minute cities? C40 cities? loss of auto or self determination? One Health?

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