Antifa to host covert training conference in Philadelphia

Antifa to host covert training conference in Philadelphia

6 Oct 2025 ~~ By Mia Cathell

Antifa activists are hosting a three-day training conference for fellow antifascists in Philadelphia this week, despite Democrats insisting that Antifa is not an organization.
The annual Philly Skillshare Convergence will occur over the coming Friday through Sunday, according to an advertisement circulating in Antifa circles.
So-called “skillshares” are educational sessions where activists gather to learn street-level strategies, often militant in nature.
This year’s skillshare in Philadelphia is slated to offer a series of hourlong workshops, including a lesson on evading law enforcement and eluding capture.
“Don’t turn yourself in,” the plenary’s description says. “Be fugitive.” That particular course will teach preparedness practices and tactics for “resist[ing] state coercion.”
Held annually since 2020, the covert conference is intended to “strengthen collective capacities” for “organizing [and] attacking.”
Only a trusted few are privy to planning details. The venue is at an undisclosed location. To see the event’s address, attendees must contact organizers through Proton Mail, an end-to-end encrypted email service.
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Antifa organizers submit content to the Philly Anti-Capitalist, and the website will accordingly issue communiqués, announcements about upcoming Philadelphia-based meetups, and “reportbacks.” For instance, in mid-September, the Philly Anti-Capitalist published a report back of “comrades coming from Los Angeles” to relay “tactical observations” about the uprisings against Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Other major U.S. cities have hosted similarly styled skillshares in recent months. Chicago was the setting for a fall 2024 skillshare intentionally held on the eve of the presidential election. “Let’s take care of each other so we can be dangerous together,” anarchist organizers said in the marketing material. Indianapolis saw one too at a black-owned bookstore ahead of Inauguration Day.


Commentary:
On the eve of America's 250th anniversary, in the city of Brotherly love, where the Declaration of Independence was crafted, American hating anarchists are plotting the destruction of the constitution under the protection of an American hating Soros toady DA.
They're just a bunch of anarchists claiming to be anti-fascists when most of them can't even define Fascism. What most of them can't even see is that demanding that others conform to their way of thought and then trying to coerce them through force and violence is a hallmark of the very thing they claim to stand against. These "Useful Idiots" are just pawns for the Democrats for a Socialist America, anarchist fantasy of their organization's leadership.
CHAPTER 4

Rose City Antifa

BETWEEN 2017 AND 2019, there were around two and a half dozen
violent protests and riots involving antifa in Portland. Before 2020, that was
considered a lot. Most of the incidents were organized or co-organized by
Rose City Antifa (RCA), the oldest antifa group in the United States. It
takes its name from the “City of Roses,” a nickname for Portland.

Antifa began accelerating their mass organizing in early 2017 as Donald
Trump took office. Within a couple months, they had developed a
sophisticated system that included propaganda, outreach, operation security,
reconnaissance, and group fighting strategies. Despite the mantra claiming
there is “no organization” to antifa, I could see their operations clearly took
planning, coordination, money, and recruitment. From one riot to the next,
their numbers grew and they became better at carrying out carnage on
people and property. Still, without being inside RCA myself or speaking to
someone who was, and they never willingly speak, the inner workings of
the organization remained speculation. Then, in June 2020, the public
finally received a rare glimpse into the workings of the group through a
video release by Project Veritas, the independent investigative journalism
site founded by James O’Keefe.

After being conditionally approved to join RCA on a probationary status,
a journalist at Project Veritas who used the moniker “Lion” was sent the
following welcome email on September 22, 2017, after spending time in
Portland and befriending antifa. The email detailed the six-month vetting
process that includes an intense radicalization process and training
curriculum. Only upon completion of the program and the unanimous
consent of members can one officially be welcomed in the organization.
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Congratulations and welcome aboard! After deliberating as a group, we are excited to invite
you to join us as a prospective member! Our orientation will be held at In Other Words (14 NE
Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97211) on Sunday November 5th at 10 am. It is really
important that you come to this initial meeting so please save the date! Childcare will be
provided. Please just let us know the number and ages of the children ahead of time.

The remaining classes will develop a baseline understanding of the strategy, tactics, and
history of militant antifascism, dissect various strains of fascism and insurgent white
supremacist formations; go over security topics; get training on various specific skill sets
including militant direct action and research methods; and explore class, gender, and race
issues as they relate to the struggle against fascism. In the next month it may be a good time to
think about tightening up your personal security. You may want to adjust your social media
accordingly, and read up on security culture. There are many excellent zines out there—and
we will go over this subject in person as well—but you may want to look over this basic
primer on the topic: What Is Security Culture?.

We recommend installing Tor on your computer (a browser) and Signal on your phone (an
encrypted text and call app) if you are able in the meantime. These are both really user friendly
so should be relatively straight-forward to install. If you are having a hard time doing this,
please let us know at the orientation. We have attached the full syllabus which includes a lot of
resources for further study. Don’t be overwhelmed by the length! This document is meant [to
be] used as an ongoing reference guide if you are looking for information on specific topics at
any point in the future. You are only expected to read the required materials. Those have been
isolated and attached in a separate document as well to make it easier to find them. Feel free to
get started on gathering those materials before classes start.

Remember you will have six months to get through them all and they are meant to line up
with the specific class discussions on those topics so you don’t need to power through
everything at once. If you need an accommodation on the readings due for any reason, feel
free to let us know. We have members for whom English is not their primary language, as well
as members with disabilities that make doing these readings impossible. So don’t hesitate to
let us know if you are unable to do them for such a reason. We can see if there are other things
we can do to substitute.

The main thing we are looking for is people that are dedicated and will follow through on
tasks. So these assignments are as much about assessing that as about learning the material in
them. Classes will be held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month except the orientation at
10 am. The exceptions are the orientation, the guest lecture, and the optional firearms training.
Here is the schedule
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Congratulations and welcome aboard! After deliberating as a group, we are excited to invite
you to join us as a prospective member! Our orientation will be held at In Other Words (14 NE
Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97211) on Sunday November 5th at 10 am. It is really
important that you come to this initial meeting so please save the date! Childcare will be
provided. Please just let us know the number and ages of the children ahead of time.

The remaining classes will develop a baseline understanding of the strategy, tactics, and
history of militant antifascism, dissect various strains of fascism and insurgent white
supremacist formations; go over security topics; get training on various specific skill sets
including militant direct action and research methods; and explore class, gender, and race
issues as they relate to the struggle against fascism. In the next month it may be a good time to
think about tightening up your personal security. You may want to adjust your social media
accordingly, and read up on security culture. There are many excellent zines out there—and
we will go over this subject in person as well—but you may want to look over this basic
primer on the topic: What Is Security Culture?.

We recommend installing Tor on your computer (a browser) and Signal on your phone (an
encrypted text and call app) if you are able in the meantime. These are both really user friendly
so should be relatively straight-forward to install. If you are having a hard time doing this,
please let us know at the orientation. We have attached the full syllabus which includes a lot of
resources for further study. Don’t be overwhelmed by the length! This document is meant [to
be] used as an ongoing reference guide if you are looking for information on specific topics at
any point in the future. You are only expected to read the required materials. Those have been
isolated and attached in a separate document as well to make it easier to find them. Feel free to
get started on gathering those materials before classes start.

Remember you will have six months to get through them all and they are meant to line up
with the specific class discussions on those topics so you don’t need to power through
everything at once. If you need an accommodation on the readings due for any reason, feel
free to let us know. We have members for whom English is not their primary language, as well
as members with disabilities that make doing these readings impossible. So don’t hesitate to
let us know if you are unable to do them for such a reason. We can see if there are other things
we can do to substitute.

The main thing we are looking for is people that are dedicated and will follow through on
tasks. So these assignments are as much about assessing that as about learning the material in
them. Classes will be held on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month except the orientation at
10 am. The exceptions are the orientation, the guest lecture, and the optional firearms training.
Here is the schedule
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Orientation—Sunday 11/5
Security—11/18
Intro to Antifascism—12/2
Guest Speakers (Alexander Reid Ross, Shane Burley)—12/16 7pm
Typologies—1/6/18
Research—1/20
Group Project Presentations, Intro to Workgroups—2/3
Class Issues—2/17
Gender Issues—3/3
Black Bloc—3/17
Recon and Tactical—4/7
**Intro to Firearms—2nd Saturday 4/14 (optional unless DA)
Facilitation and Group—4/21
Final Individual Project Presentations—5/5

We are excited to work with y’all during this prospecting period and are more than happy
to answer any questions that may arise before then. Feel free to reach out to us at any time and
we will pass along updates, important news, and potential event opportunities as they arise.
In Solidarity, Rose City Antifa167

Since 2016, we have been told over and over by biased media and
antifa apologists that antifa is not an organization. We’ve been lied to.
While there is no single capital A “Antifa” organization with one leader,
there are indeed localized cells and groups with formalized structures and
memberships. Though officially leaderless, these are organizations by every
definition.

The RCA curriculum is modeled on a university course. Yet it includes
training on how to use guns and do reconnaissance against enemies.
Unsurprisingly, one of the “guest speakers” is an academic: Portland State
geography instructor and writer Alexander Reid Ross. (I contacted Ross for
comment. He posted my contact information on his social media and did
not respond to my inquiries.168)

RCA was founded in 2007 and is the first-known formalized antifa group
in the United States using “antifa” in its name. Those involved in its
founding have been kept secret, but through Lion’s time in RCA, he learned ...
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that it was started by a Portland woman, Caroline Victorin (née Gauld). She
has been in a long-term relationship with a Swedish national.169 Together,
they worked to bring a tried-and-true European antifa model to the United
States.

It worked.

The couple’s social media accounts have all been wiped clean, but what
still exists reveals that they were members of the Timbers Army soccer fan
club, the organization involved in mainstreaming antifa symbols and
ideology in Portland through soccer. The fan club is modeled after
European football (soccer) fan organizations and their hooligan social
culture. (A representative from the Timbers Army declined to confirm or
deny her membership in the group.) She moved to Sweden sometime in
2016.

As a prospective member of RCA, one of Lion’s first tasks was meeting
with members at the Coffeehouse-Five café in North Portland for operation
security training. There, he was instructed to install VeraCrypt on his
laptop. The software is used to encrypt files and digital storage devices.
Next, he had to install a list of programs and applications all centered
around bypassing surveillance and maintaining anonymity: Tails (an
operating system), Tor (for anonymous web browsing), Thunderbird (an
email application), KeepassX (a password manager), and Exif (to strip all
metadata from files).

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The Syllabus

The fifteen-page RCA syllabus is broken into nine sections called “units.”
Each unit addresses a different aspect of militant antifa training and has a
set of required readings and optional texts for “further study.” Unit one
introduces members to Rose City Antifa and its history, structure, and
goals.

RCA is one cell within the Torch Network, a network of connected
violent militant antifa groups across the United States. The radicals running
the network are officially anonymous, but a search of the site’s domain
registrant shows the name Michael Novick. Novick is a former member of
the Weather Underground terrorist group.170 There are eight chapters in
addition to Portland: Antifa Sacramento, Western North Carolina Antifa,
Rocky Mountain Antifa, Atlanta Antifascists, Pacific Northwest Antifascist
Workers Collective, Antifa Seven Hills (Richmond, Virginia), Central Texas
Anti-Racist Action (Austin, Texas), and Northern California Anti-Racist
Action.

“We are born out of, and pay our respects to, the Anti-Racist Action
Network. We are dedicated to confronting fascism and other elements of
oppression. We believe in direct action,” states the Torch Network on its
website.171 “Direct action” is a dog whistle for protest activity that includes
violence. To join the network, one’s group “must be vouched for by at least
two network chapters, and delegates [need] two individual vouches.”

The “Points of Unity” RCA members have to pledge to state they must
agree to disrupt “fascist” activity, refuse cooperation with law enforcement
and courts, oppose oppression, hold themselves accountable, and, most
importantly, support not only those within the network but also those
“outside the network who we believe have similar aims or principles.”172
This is the phantom cell structure of antifa that makes them analogous to
global jihadism. A unifying ideology and political agenda ties together
individuals, cells, and groups.

RCA’s website further reaffirms the group’s commitment to violent direct
action in the name of “anti-racism.” It regularly publishes reports and doxes
on individuals and groups for their members to target in real life and online.
I myself was targeted in an article shortly before being beaten in 2019.

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Reads like a Cult manifesto.
It is that, and much more.
These are excerpts from the book "Unmasked" by Andy Ngo which provides insight into the reality of Antifa.
These posts are excerpts from the following PDF link presented to show that Antifa is very much 'Organized' and has a set training regimen used by branches across the USA.

Unmasked - Free PDF Download

Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy

Unmasked by Andy Ngo PDF, EPUB Download or Read Online

 
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RCA’s second unit in the curriculum centers around in-depth training on
operations security, known as “OPSEC.” Security is drilled into the heads
of all antifa members and their allies. They’re trained to not trust those
around them, including friends and family. They know they are
participating in criminal conspiracies and are hypervigilant about hiding
their tracks from law enforcement and anyone who might report them. The
curriculum reads:

UNIT TWO: SECURITY

What are the primary security vulnerabilities online?

What are the most important programs for me to use?

What are the best available technological safety measures to put in place to do this work?

What are some security vulnerabilities in my life and how can I amend them?

Who can I talk to about RCA and what can I share?

How is communication about sensitive info best handled? What about in an emergency?

What is “security culture”?

KEY COMPETENCIES:

Have a grasp on technological weaknesses and the best measures currently available to address
these.

Grasp of basic, crucial internet security.

Get comfortable using Tor, Signal, Keypass, and PGP.

Be able to STFU [shut the **** up]: no bragging, no loud talking in bars, no Facebook
updates, no discussion of sensitive matters with close friends, partners, etc.

Know your rights when you are dealing with the cops.

Understand that your actions impact the entire group, and that your comrades are depending
on you.

REQUIRED:
An Activist’s Guide to Information Security by Sprout Distro173
What Is Security Culture? by CrimethInc174
Complete tech security training
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The two required readings, “An Activist’s Guide to Information
Security” by Sprout Distro and “What Is Security Culture?” by CrimethInc,
are among the most popular instruction manuals on how to anonymize
oneself online. They are available for free and are regularly printed and
disseminated at anarchist and antifa events. In CHAZ and throughout the
2020 Portland riots, these manuals were also given out to riot attendees.
The second unit’s recommended readings for further study include a doxing
guide by antifa blog and news site It’s Going Down.175 It’s Going Down
has almost 100,000 followers on Twitter.176 The extreme site had its
Facebook page deleted in August 2020 following a crackdown on far-left
and far-right extremist accounts.

UNIT THREE: ANTIFA BASICS

What is militant antifascism?
What is “antifa”?

KEY COMPETENCIES:
Be able to articulate why militant antifascism is important and how it differs from liberal anti-
racism.
Start familiarizing yourself with militant anti-racist and antifascist history, here in Portland, in
the U.S., and abroad.
Get some responses down to common criticisms, i.e. “free speech,” being the “real fascists,”
etc.

REQUIRED:
“Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement” by Don
Hammerquist, J. Sakai, ARA Chicago, & Mark Salotte177
“Portland History in Review” by M. Treloar178
“Claim No Easy Victories: Anarchist Analysis of ARA” by Common Struggle179
“The Divorce of Thought from Deed: A Compilation of Writings on Social Conflict, White
Supremacy, and the Mythology of Free Speech at UNC ” by the North Carolina Piece Corps180
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Just so you know........Antifa is a Marxist sub-cult which has also somehow attached itself to Palestine, Transsexuals, anti-semites an any radical group or cult that is anti-Christian and anti-America. There are billions of dollars behind the effort to tear down America and our Constitution so it can be replaced with a Marxist-variant-communist 'paradise' which we all know has never worked anywhere it has been tried.
 
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Confronting Fascism is published by the extreme anarchist publishing
house AK Press. It publishes and sells many of the books and booklets
promoted by antifa. One text for further study in the unit is Mark Bray’s
Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook. M. Testa’s popular Militant Antifascism
is another recommended reading on the list. This unit is all about theory. It
is akin to Muslim Brotherhood radicalization, which involves having
members read texts that intellectualize religious extremism and romanticize
Islamic law.181 Likewise, the readings in the RCA antifa unit brainwash
members on the failures of liberalism and capitalism and the need to create
a new utopian society.

Websites the RCA curriculum recommends members become acquainted
with include the aforementioned It’s Going Down, the Southern Poverty
Law Center (SPLC),
and Idavox. The SPLC has establishment liberal and
media legitimacy as an arbiter of “hate groups,” but too often it actually
serves to launder antifa’s ideology into the mainstream. For example,
groups that hold traditional Christian views meet the threshold for being an
SPLC “hate group.”

Idavox is an antifa blog site dedicated to publishing information about
accused white racists and “fascists.” It is a project of the American
nonprofit One People’s Project (OPP), founded and run by Daryle Lamont
Jenkins. Its motto is “Hate has consequences.” I knew of Jenkins from
when he organized a protest of my speaking lecture at Heritage Foundation
in Washington, DC, in late 2019. Think tank Capital Research Center
describes the One People’s Project as a nonprofit “arm of antifa” that
curates lists of enemies where personal information is published.
They
wrote this about Jenkins and his organization in a March 2020 report:
In a now-deleted interview from 2005 with an anarchist website, Jenkins explained that OPP
doesn’t go after just white supremacists and fascists, but also targets mainstream
conservatives, such as Sean Hannity. Jenkins told the interviewer that the organization is
“rather aggressive and controversial in some areas, such as when we publish the home
addresses of neo-Nazis and even mainstream conservatives, like Sean Hannity, who lives at
[address redacted by CRC].”182

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Just so you know........Antifa is a Marxist sub-cult which has also somehow attached itself to Palestine, Transsexuals, anti-semites an any radical group or cult that is anti-Christian and anti-America. There are billions of dollars behind the effort to tear down America and our Constitution so it can be replaced with a Marxist-variant-communist 'paradise.'
FWIW, I agree, which is why I am presenting some of the essential content of Ngo's book, "Unmasked ..." which presents in depth examination of current USA Antifa, the origins from 1930's Germany, and the various tentacles of this subversive and insurrectionist organization.

I strongly recommend reading the full book to better know the danger that Antifa is and why it needs to be stop and eliminated.
 
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Should be enough excerpted pages to give basic insight to the structure and methods of Antifa.
Next several pages are similar to above going into these topic areas;

UNIT FOUR: WHITE SUPREMACY & FASCISM DEFINED
UNIT FIVE: CLASS STRUGGLE & WHITE SUPREMACY
UNIT SIX: INTERSECTIONS WITH GENDER
UNIT SEVEN: RESEARCH
UNIT EIGHT: ADVANCED STRATEGY AND TACTICS
UNIT NINE: GROUP PROCESS


One should note the linkage with DEI and CRT, which are alternate ways to present Antifa indoctrination.
 
FWIW, I agree, which is why I am presenting some of the essential content of Ngo's book, "Unmasked ..." which presents in depth examination of current USA Antifa, the origins from 1930's Germany, and the various tentacles of this subversive and insurrectionist organization.

I strongly recommend reading the full book to better know the danger that Antifa is and why it needs to be stop and eliminated.
Thanks, I'll read more. Been seeing reports on Antifa and they are a well-funded, organized cult. I takes organization to bring cement blocks to a 'protest' break them up and use the smaller pieces to throw at law enforcement. I hope Trump can do something about them.
 
Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Introduction
6. 1 Insurgency
7. 2 The World’s Newest Nation
8. 3 Portland
9. 4 Rose City Antifa
10. 5 Origin Story
11. 6 American Mutation
12. 7 Black Lives Matter
13. 8 Violence
14. 9 Deadly Violence
15. 10 Doxing
16. 11 The “Democratic” Route
17. 12 Information Warfare and Propaganda
18. Afterword
19. Sources
20. Acknowledgments
21. Discover More
22. About the Author
23. Endnotes

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