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Comments 0. Top Stories. The Redneck Revolt pitch is surprisingly simple: Both poor white people and poor people of colour are actually fighting against the same enemy — the rich. Redneck Revolt is not, of course, the first group of white people to organise on behalf of people of colour.

The group pulls inspiration from the Young Patriots Organisation YPO — a group of white workers who gathered nearly 60 years ago in Chicago to defend the rights of poor people of all races. While the group itself eventually dissolved, modern politicians of colour — from Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama — have used the moniker to describe the population that elected them to office. But the idea of an armed, leftist group also conjures up a more ominous association: antifa.

The little-known phrase — short for anti-fascist — gained attention this summer when dozens of antifa activists arrived in Charlottesville, Virginia to counter-protest a white nationalist rally. Unlike many counter-protesters, some antifa activists came armed. A few engaged in violence.

Redneck Revolt members also came to Charlottesville — and they came armed. But Redneck Revolt claims it did not come to Charlottesville seeking confrontation.

According to a blog post on their website, Redneck Revolt members came to offer protection for the community and show opposition to white supremacy. But Redneck Revolt does not consider themselves an antifa group. Indeed, if Redneck Revolt is the revolution, then the revolution is decidedly chill. Members of the Suffolk County branch shake off their Sunday mornings at the range with a weekly book club, where they sip home-brewed coffee and discuss radical texts like Caliban and the Witch.

The evening is consumed by a planning meeting, where they decide which charitable projects to take on next. The tiny space was packed with books, on everything Soviet military strategy to modern nihilism. The walls were strung with old postcards and tea lights, and a fading evening light streamed in through colourful fabric scraps sewn into curtains. Almost everyone at the meeting had brought beer.

Mae, one of the few female members of the group, had also brought Taco Bell, and was eating it on the floor. The group spent half of the meeting just catching up; strong New York accents bouncing off the walls as they cracked jokes about their decidedly un-radical hometown. The Suffolk County branch was founded this April, as an offshoot of a leftist reading group at Stony Brook University. The friends knew they wanted to start a leftist organisation on Long Island, and George liked Redneck Revolt for its strong anti-capitalist message.