US designates 4 foreign branches of antifa as terrorist groups [View all]

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/