The Anti-Fascist Action were backed by the German Communist Party.
The Iron Front were set up by SocDems as an anti-communist alternative to AntiFa.
Because as we all know, the only way to fight disease is to oppose medicine and promote a homeopathic snake oil instead.
Alternative to Roterfront, but yes.
The Iron Front predates Antifa, and Antifa was very much Communist led, it was an attempt at a united front. The SPD leadership and union leadership REFUSED to join. We cannot know for sure the membership makeup because Antifa insisted upon no membership cards, as this was practical self-defense, NOT a political militia or armed wing. Which probably saved a lot of lives in the short term.
Iron Front was utterly useless
Could you link what you’re quoting from (or at least name the source)?
So I cannot for the life of me find the link, the book is German and I translated sections years ago. I managed to find this dead-link if anyone can help http://antifaeu.blogsport.de/images/80J_AA_web.pdf
Wayback machine is down this week because of fears of an attack on the site so I can’t use that currently. May be a download on my old computer