Homegrown threats have become a serious issue. And now it’s gotten completely out of hand.
Because a terrorist organization was caught hosting training right under America’s nose.
Antifa’s Clandestine Training Camp Takes Root in Philadelphia
Antifa militants are convening for a three-day workshop series in Philadelphia this weekend, challenging Democratic assertions that the group amounts to little more than a nebulous ideology rather than a coordinated network of agitators.
Billed as the annual Philly Skillshare Convergence, the event unfolds from Friday to Sunday, promoted through insular Antifa channels that highlight its role in honing disruptive tactics.
These “skillshares” function as hands-on seminars, where participants exchange know-how on confrontational street maneuvers, often veering into aggressive territory that tests the limits of public order.
Tactics for Evasion and Escalation on the Agenda
The Philadelphia lineup features compact, hour-long classes, including one dedicated to slipping away from police and avoiding arrest—a session that embodies the group’s defiant ethos.
“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.”
Event visuals display a hammer, balaclava, and walkie-talkies—tools emblematic of the black-clad operatives who mask up for anonymity in clashes and use radios to orchestrate hits on law enforcement assets.
Sessions extend to practical guides like “Applying Radio Technology” and “Federated Social Media for Anarchists 101,” demystifying platforms such as Kolektiva.social that link far-left cells, including Antifa International, in a web of untraceable chatter.
Further offerings tackle “cyberpunk invisibility” for digital evasion and strategies to fortify and grow activist cells, underscoring the conference’s focus on amplifying unrest.
Secrecy and Structure: A Network Beyond the “Idea”
Since its inception in 2020, this low-profile assembly has sought to “strengthen collective capacities” for “organizing [and] attacking,” with details guarded for a vetted audience. The site stays secret, revealed only via encrypted Proton Mail queries to organizers.
The initial promo appeared on Philly Anti-Capitalist, a far-left dispatch site that amplifies radical Philly happenings and dubs the region “occupied Lenapehoking” in nod to Lenape heritage.
Antifa contributors pipe in updates, yielding calls to action, event bulletins, and post-op recaps—like a mid-September breakdown from L.A. allies sharing “tactical observations” on anti-ICE skirmishes.
Posts demand anonymity through encrypted submissions and Tor routing: “Do not share unnecessary details about sensitive actions (ones that…would assist an investigation into it).” Photos require metadata scrubbing.
Resources on the page include an Antifascist Supersoldiers-mapped roster of Philly police posts, alongside agitprop posters declaring: “The time to attack is always now.”
As Democrats downplay Antifa as an abstract notion, evidence mounts of a federated apparatus—encrypted relays, veiled hubs, and structured summits—that transforms rhetoric into rallies primed for volatility.
Comparable conclaves have popped up elsewhere lately: Chicago’s pre-election 2024 edition urged, “Let’s take care of each other so we can be dangerous together.” Indianapolis ran one pre-Inauguration at a black-owned venue, fine-tuning the faithful for fresh friction.
