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Anti-fascism is the opposition to fascist ideologies, governments, groups and individuals. The related term antifa derives from Antifaschismus, which is German for anti-fascism. It refers to individuals and groups that are dedicated to fighting fascism. Most major resistance movements during World War II were anti-fascist. According to an article published by a the Anarchist Federation, a British anarcho-communist organization, militant anti-fascists advocate the use of violence against fascists.[1] Writer Dave Renton argues, however, that "for anti-fascists, violence is not part of their world view", and calls militants "professional anti-fascists."[2][page&_160;needed] In the 1920s and 1930s in France, anti-fascists confronted aggressive far right groups such as the Action Française movement in France, which dominated the Latin Quarter students' neighborhood.[3] In France, quite a few people who joined the Resistance against the pro-Nazi Vichy regime came from far right nationalist and royalist backgrounds. They abandoned the Vichy regime and started fighting against the German occupiers when they saw that Vichy leader Philippe Pétain was subservient to Nazi Germany, and had no intent to stop collaboration.[4] In the 1920s and 1930s in Germany, Communist Party and Social Democratic Party members advocated violence and mass agitation amongst the working class to stop Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and the Freikorps.[citation needed] Leon Trotsky wrote
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