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BumRushDaShow

(163,279 posts)
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 03:55 PM Yesterday

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 administration’s 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/



“The United States will continue using all available tools to protect our nation from these anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian terrorist groups


So this is clearly and freely admitting that the U.S. is "fascist".
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AllyCat

(18,364 posts)
3. "Branches of Antifa"?? WTF are those? Antifa is not an organization.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:24 PM
Yesterday

Is this going to be like the Venezuelan fishing boats, I mean "secret drug traffickers"?

I hate this timeline.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,208 posts)
11. The Rapist needs a distraction from the Epstein revelations, so they've dug up 4 small foreign groups
Fri Nov 14, 2025, 03:21 PM
8 hrs ago

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)
4. Well that's a relief.
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:29 PM
Yesterday

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)
5. So does that mean the remaining living survivors of
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 04:51 PM
Yesterday

WWII are now under threat of arrest for fighting and killing fascists?

pat_k

(12,468 posts)
7. Finally found a gang with Antifa in its name!!!
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 05:44 PM
Yesterday

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

...The campaign, called Rechts Gegen Rechts — the Right Against the Right — turned the march into Germany’s “most involuntary walkathon.” For every meter the neo-Nazis marched, local residents and businesses pledged to donate 10 euros (then equivalent to about $12.50) to a program that helps people leave right-wing extremist groups, called EXIT Deutschland.

ancianita

(42,577 posts)
9. heh heh... fascist Rubio must think he's got some int'l legal status in trump-alienated allied countries
Thu Nov 13, 2025, 06:55 PM
Yesterday
Good luck attaching them to American antifa.

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