US designates 4 foreign branches of antifa as terrorist groups
Source: The Hill
11/13/25 2:24 PM ET
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Thursday that four European-based groups would be designated as terrorist organizations as part of the administrations commitment to confront the antifa movement a catch-all term for far-left groups opposing fascism, sometimes violently.
The foreign designations come after the Trump administration in September designated antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. The United States will continue using all available tools to protect our nation from these anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian terrorist groups, Rubio, who also serves as national security adviser, said in a statement.
The administration singled out the German-based Antifa Ost, the Italian-based International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI), and two groups in Greece, the Armed Proletarian Justice and the Revolutionary Class Self Defense, as groups now designated as foreign terrorist organizations. The designations are slated to go into effect Nov. 20.
In a fact sheet, the State Department laid out its evidence against the groups. It described Antifa Ost as conducting between 2018 and 2023 numerous attacks against individuals it perceives as fascists or part of the right-wing scene in Germany and accused it of having conducted a series of attacks in Budapest in mid-February 2023.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/5604519-state-department-foreign-branches-antifa-terrorist-organizations/
So this is clearly and freely admitting that the U.S. is "fascist".
Xipe Totec
(44,428 posts)FakeNoose
(39,484 posts)So there!!!

AllyCat
(18,364 posts)Is this going to be like the Venezuelan fishing boats, I mean "secret drug traffickers"?
I hate this timeline.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,208 posts)who do appear to target fascists. Since one has been known as "Antifa Ost" at times, the federal government's shameless ease at lying has called them all "Antifa Groups" - and it is, it should be noted, The Hill that has amplified that as "Branches of Antifa" as if there's a parent organization. Rubio came up with the ridiculous "anti-American" and "anti-Christian" accusations, because he's a lying toad who realises he must try and look like a far-right American "Christian" zealot if he's to have a career after Trump snuffs it.
They haven't just done anything in particular; they could have designated them as terrorists in January if they really cared. But they need a "win" headline against any of their declared enemies, so someone's searched the web for "antifa" and a crime until they found this.
progressoid
(52,317 posts)I've been losing sleep thinking about how this Anifia is bringing down the aMerican way of life.
Wait a minute....foreign branches of antifa?
Hows that gonna make me safer when I go to the store?
Buddyzbuddy
(1,901 posts)WWII are now under threat of arrest for fighting and killing fascists?
SunSeeker
(57,249 posts)pat_k
(12,468 posts)How asinine. But they'll keep doing this shit to shore up their lies about there being some fucking global conspiracy. Trump to MAGA: Be afraid. Be very afraid.
I'm sure italy, Germany, and wherever else such groups are are doing just fine prosecuting crimes committed.
And when it comes to dealing with the far right, this is an idea from Germany that I love!
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/opinion/how-to-make-fun-of-nazis.html
mdbl
(7,758 posts)They're such ignoramuses.