Antifa in the Czech Republic have recently published a fascinating analysis of how some fascist groups appear to be busying themselves adopting the imagery and style of anarchists and anti-fascists.
The Big Neo-Nazi Crib illustrates examples of this from clothing, sticker designs, badges, t shirts and logos. Quite who gains from these maneouvres is another matter entirely - it certainly provides easy fodder for the lazy 'they are all as bad as each other' media talking heads. Here in the UK (where the trend identified by Czech Antifa is nowhere near as pronounced) attempts to link anarchism and fascism are usually the preserve of the secret state and its useful idiots on the last century left such as Searchlight and bloggers such as Andy Newman over at Socialist Unity.
The closest we have perhaps come is some of the literature of the International Third Position in the 1990s, when they attempted to rally against McDonalds and corporate capital - with little real success. Or perhaps the stalled attempts to create 'National-Anarchism' by Troy Southgate and others. Why did they fail? Well firstly you do have to wonder if the participants heart was ever in it - Southgate quickly popped up in BNP circles when Nick Griffin was at his peak. But most importantly, people do tend to prefer the original, to the copy - if they have to copy our ideas to attract young supporters, what does it tell us about the confidence the fascists have in their own belief system?
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