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Anti-Catholicism in the United States

Anti-Catholicism in the United States: hostility to Catholic faith and loyalty from colonial New England through the Know Nothing Party, Blaine Amendment, and modern attitudes.

Anti-Chinese sentiment

Anti-Chinese sentiment, also called Sinophobia, is hostility toward Chinese people or China, spanning the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, COVID-19-era anti-Asian hate crimes, and spillover discrimination against Asian Americans.

Anti-clericalism

Anti-clericalism is opposition to the clergy's institutional power in politics, education, and government, not belief itself. Key episodes: the French Revolution's Civil Constitution of the Clergy, the Third Republic's Ferry laws and 1905 separation law, Spain, Italy, and Mexico.

Anti-Comintern Pact

Anti-Comintern Pact (Antikominternpakt): 1936 Berlin agreement between Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan against the Communist International, effectively aimed at the USSR; joined by Italy in 1937 and precursory to the Axis.

Anti-communism

Anti-communism is active opposition to communism and communists, treated by scholars as a quasi-ideology in its own right. It shaped twentieth-century politics and peaked during the Cold War of 1947 to 1989.

Anti-corruption campaign under Muhammadu Buhari

The anti-corruption campaign under Muhammadu Buhari was Nigeria's federal effort against corruption from 2015 to 2023, centered on the Treasury Single Account and a whistleblower policy.

Anti-cosmopolitan campaign

The anti-cosmopolitan campaign (Борьба с космополитизмом) was a Soviet ideological and police campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", mainly Jewish intellectuals, opened by Pravda in January 1949 and ended by Stalin's death.

Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement

The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a plurilateral IP enforcement treaty negotiated 2006–2010 and signed in 2011 by the EU, 22 member states, and others; the European Parliament rejected it on 4 July 2012, so it never entered into force.

Anti-Croat sentiment

Anti-Croat sentiment, also called Anti-Croatism, is prejudice against Croats. It is characterized by the collective labeling of Croats as "Ustasha" in Serbian media and politics.

Anti-Defamation League

Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Jewish civil rights organization founded in 1913 by Sigmund Livingston in Chicago; publishes the Audit of Antisemitic Incidents since 1979; led by CEO Jonathan Greenblatt since 2015; FBI ended its partnership in 2025.

Anti-defection law (India)

The anti-defection law of India, contained in the Constitution's Tenth Schedule and enacted in 1985, disqualifies members of Parliament or state legislatures who defect from their party.

Anti-Dumping Agreement

The Anti-Dumping Agreement (ADA) is the WTO treaty implementing GATT Article VI, setting the conditions for anti-dumping duties on imports sold below their home-market price.

Anti-dumping duty

An anti-dumping duty is a tariff on imports sold below normal value that injure domestic industry; the WTO's most used trade remedy, with 2,144 measures in force in 2025.

Anti-establishment

Anti-establishment refers to opposition to a society's conventional social, political, and economic principles and its incumbent elites; term coined by New Statesman in 1958. Covers anti-establishment parties, populism, protest voting, and reform parties distinct from populism.

Anti-fascism

Anti-fascism (antifascism, antifa) is opposition to fascist movements and regimes, originating in 1920s Italy against Mussolini's squads, spanning Popular Front politics, wartime resistance, Cold War memory politics, and today's decentralized militant Antifa networks.

Anti-Fascist Action

Anti-Fascist Action (AFA) was a British militant anti-fascist organisation, mid-1980s to about 2001, led largely by Red Action with anarchists and football fans, practicing no-platform tactics against the BNP, Blood and Honour, and Combat 18.

Anti-Fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia

The Anti-Fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM) was the supreme legislative and executive body of the Macedonian state from 1944 to 1945.

Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia

AVNOJ (Antifašističko vijeće narodnog oslobođenja Jugoslavije), 1942–1945, the Partisan movement's legislative body; sessions at Bihać, Jajce (federal Yugoslavia, NKOJ, 29 Nov 1943), and Belgrade; became the Provisional People's Assembly.

Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front

Anti-Fascist Internationalist Front (AIF), founded October 15, 2024 near Falam, Chin State, Myanmar: a foreign-volunteer internationalist armed formation fighting the SAC junta alongside local resistance forces and training them in sniper, drone, and medical skills.

Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League

The Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League (AFPFL, Burmese: ဖဆပလ) was the Burmese coalition that led Burma from independence in 1948 until Ne Win's 1962 military coup.

Anti-Filipino sentiment

Anti-Filipino sentiment is prejudice and discrimination against Filipinos, historically in the United States through colonial-era labor recruitment, the 1929-1930 West Coast riots including Watsonville, immigration exclusion politics, and persistent discrimination reported by Filipino Americans today.

Anti-gay purges in Chechnya

Anti-gay purges in Chechnya: waves of detention, torture, and honor-killing incitement against men presumed gay, begun February 2017 under Ramzan Kadyrov, denied by officials, and continuing through 2024-2026 with wartime blackmail.

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe, also called anti-genderism or opposition to 'gender ideology', are mobilizations against LGBT rights, reproductive rights, and gender education, originating in 1990s Vatican reactions to UN conferences and now tied to right-wing populist parties and transnational funding networks.

Anti-gender movement

Anti-gender movement: transnational campaigns against gender equality, feminism, and LGBTQ rights framed as opposing 'gender ideology'; originated in Vatican circles after the 1994 Cairo and 1995 Beijing UN conferences, now funded by conservative religious, Russian, and American donors.

Anti-German sentiment

Anti-German sentiment: hostility toward Germans, people of German descent, or the German state, also called Germanophobia. Peaked in WWI and WWII with internment, language bans, and expulsions; documented today in Austria and EU-policy debates.

Anti-Germans (political current)

Antideutsche (Anti-Germans): a pro-Israel, anti-nationalist current in the German radical left, formed against reunification in 1989–1990 under the slogan "Nie wieder Deutschland", split from anti-imperialists over Israel, published Jungle World and Bahamas, now a fringe subculture.

Anti-globalization movement

Anti-globalization movement: also called alter-globalization or global justice movement, a transnational protest wave of the mid-1990s to early 2000s opposing neoliberal globalization, marked by the 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the World Social Forum.

Anti-Hamas insurgency in the Gaza Strip

Anti-Hamas insurgency in the Gaza Strip: armed activity by Israel-backed Palestinian militias, including the Popular Forces, fighting Hamas security forces since the October 2025 ceasefire; more than 40 violent events and nearly 80 fatalities recorded by ACLED.

Anti-Henan sentiment

Anti-Henan sentiment (河南人歧视) is regional discrimination against people from Henan Province, China, marked by the 'dishonest Henan' stereotype, media amplification, hukou-linked structural roots, and the first Chinese regional discrimination lawsuit.

Anti-Hetman uprising

The Anti-Hetman uprising (Протигетьманське повстання) was a 1918 uprising by Ukrainian national-democratic forces led by the Directory of the UNR, which overthrew Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi in December 1918.