The United States Government has included four groups of the European radical left on its list of global terrorist organizations, which it accuses of being entities “ [antifascistas] As part of this list, the four groups are included in the same category as violent radical Islamist organizations such as Al Qaeda or the Islamic State (IS).
The groups include the German Antifa Ost, which the State Department describes as a “militia based in Germany” that has carried out attacks against suspected “fascists” in that country between 2018 and 2023 and in Romania in 2023. Also included are the Informal Anarchist Federation-International Revolutionary Front, which the US government says operates mainly in Italy, and two Greek groups, Armed Proletarian Justice and Class Self-Defense Revolutionary.
Proletarian Justice claimed responsibility for placing a bomb near the riot police headquarters in Gudi in 2023, according to the State Department. The Revolutionary Class Self-Defense declared itself responsible for an explosion in April at the Trenes Helenos railway company, which left no injuries and caused only minor material damage. This group also claimed responsibility for an attack against the Ministry of Employment in Athens in 2024, which also left no victims.
The designation, which will become effective as of November 20, runs parallel to the campaign that US President Donald Trump has launched in his country against the anti-fascist movement after the murder in September of the conservative youth activist Charlie Kirk and also as a result of the protests in several cities against his harsh policy of mass deportations.
The Republican then also designated antifa as a terrorist organization, despite the fact that experts almost unanimously consider that these groups in the United States are not coordinated, lack structure and organization, and their protest activism is far from resembling terrorism.
According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, his Government will continue to add other antifa groups to the list of foreign terrorist organizations.
“The groups affiliated with this movement adhere to revolutionary anarchist or Marxist ideologies, including anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-Christian ideas. And they use them to incite and justify violent attacks, in their territory and abroad,” said the head of US diplomacy.
“The United States will continue to use all its available tools to protect our national security and public safety, and will prevent terrorists from accessing funds and resources,” says the senior official.
