The State Department designated antifa groups on the other side of the Atlantic as foreign terrorist organizations.
Four organizations that identify with the international antifa network will be designated as specifically designated global terrorists, a subgroup of foreign terrorist organizations, State Department officials announced on Thursday.
“The anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists of antifa have waged a terror campaign in the United States and across the Western world for decades, carrying out bombings, beatings, shootings, and riots in service of their extreme agenda,” said State Department Principal Deputy Spokesman Tommy Pigott.
“The State Department is committed to identifying and dismantling these terror networks that conspire to ruthlessly suppress the will of the people and violently undermine the very foundations of the United States and Western Civilization,” he added.
The four targeted groups are Antifa Ost, a German group; the International Revolutionary Front, an Italian group; Armed Proletarian Justice, a Greek group; and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, another Greek group.
The State Department linked each organization to instances of political violence in their respective nations, including car bombings and targeted shootings.
Antifa Ost was already deemed a terrorist organization by the Hungarian government after attacks in September left nine victims injured.
German Antifa members also claimed responsibility for multiple arson attacks against Alternative for Germany, a right-wing party that has been gaining ground in the nation’s parliament.
Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), who has made combating antifa activities a priority, called the designations a “major step in our fight against Antifa’s terror network.”
“I’m grateful to Secretary Rubio and the Trump Administration for working with me on this critical issue – holding these radical groups who enable, fund, and support political violence in the United States and across the world accountable,” Schmitt said in a post on X.
“Each of these groups are violent cells in this transnational operation. Designating them as FTO’s is an important step to dismantling this subversive network of far-left extremism,” he continued.
The Trump administration has continued to crack down on domestic antifa activity after rebuking claims by critics that the group is a decentralized ideology without organization.
The White House hosted a roundtable last month with approximately a dozen journalists concerning how to dismantle the network.
ANTIFA BEHIND VIOLENT COUNTERPROTEST AGAINST TPUSA EVENT AT UC BERKELEY
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Tuesday that an investigation into a “violent riot” that broke out Monday evening during a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley, is being conducted.
Confrontations between police and antifa protesters have resulted in two arrests — one student and another individual with no affiliation to the university at all.
