State Dept. to Designate Antifa as Foreign Terrorist Organization in Europe
“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.”
The State Department will designate four Europe-based Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
Today, building on @POTUS’s historic commitment to uproot Antifa’s campaign of political violence, the Department of State is designating four Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists. The United States will continue using all… https://t.co/9byS1nwo2m
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) November 13, 2025
Julio Rosas broke the news on his Mostly Peaceful Substack. (Thank you, Ed Morrisey at Hot Air, for sharing the post!)
The State Department chose:
- Antifa Ost, based in Germany
- The International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation, based in Italy
- Armed Proletarian Justice, based in Greece
- Revolutionary Class Self Defense, based in Greece
“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,” State Department Principal Deputy Spokesman Tommy Pigott told Rosas. “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.”
Each of the groups are responsible for carrying out multiple attacks in Europe, according to the State Department. Antifa Ost was labeled as a terrorist organization by Hungary in September 2025 after the group’s militants assaulted nine people with hammers, batons, and pepper spray in Budapest, Hungary in 2023.
Two militants affiliated with the International Revolutionary Front shot and wounded a nuclear engineering executive in 2012.
The Armed Proletarian Justice in Greece took credit for placing a bomb at the Central Camp of MAT (Units for the Reinstatement of Order)/EKAM (Directorate of Police Operations of Attica) on December 18, 2023.
The Revolutionary Class Self-Defense bragged about setting off a bomb in central Athens in April 2024. Luckily, the bomb did not kill or injure anyone.
The four groups will not have any access to the American financial system. Those who provide support to groups face severe penalties.
None of the members can enter America.
Trump already designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization via an executive order.
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Don’t forget the American branches. They’re just as evil
But they’re not foreign, so they can’t be designated as foreign terrorist organizations. And there is no such thing in US law as a domestic terrorist organization. Trump’s press release about American antifa groups was just that, and had no legal effect at all.
There was a significant and beneficial purpose in this designation. The President, doing his duty as the Chief Executive and Chief Magistrate, properly exposed to the public a shadowy and dangerous organization engaged in supporting and funding domestic terrorism as a domestic terrorist organization and announced a policy to focus law enforcement resources to combat the problem. There are, incidentally, more than a few federal statutes addressing domestic terrorism that can be employed in this effort.
There are statutes addressing acts of domestic terrorism. There are none addressing domestic terrorist organizations. Domestic antifans who have not themselves committed or conspired to commit a crime, or who can’t be proved beyond a reasonable doubt to have done so, can’t be prosecuted simply for their connection to antifa, or for giving material support to other antifans without a specific agreement that it would be used to commit a crime.
You have lost sight of the fact that this domestic terrorist organization actually exists notwithstanding the absence of an official federal statutory name to attach to it. And that it is the constitutional duty of the President to inform and protect citizens from this danger notwithstanding the lack of an official federal statutory name to attach to it. In fact, the President would be derelict in his duty (like Biden) if he sat back and did nothing just because there isn’t an official federal statutory name to attach to it. And I never wrote anything even suggesting that anyone be convicted of a crime with proof beyond a reasonable doubt. But to focus federal resources and policies protecting the public from the criminal terrorist activities of the domestic terror organization known as Antifa is NOT violating anyone’s due process. Why is that so difficult for you to grasp?
And, before you get too worked up Milhouse, “with” above is just a typo. I intended to write “…without proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
You seem to have lost sight of the fact that “designated foreign terrorist organization” is not just some fancy label, it’s a legal status with serious legal consequences. It’s not a press release, and its purpose is not to inform the public of anything. That’s what the secretary of state has now done to these tiny obscure groups, that have nothing to do with our own communist terrorists.
And that that can’t be done to our own communist terrorists, who aren’t even an organization, let alone foreign. The president’s “designation order” was nothing but a press release. And no, it is no part of the president’s duties to inform citizens of anything. If he wants to prosecute terrorist acts let him do so, but press releases don’t help him do that.
I see that you’re completely missing the point. Designating a foreign terrorist organization creates a crime that didn’t exist before. Americans giving these four foreign groups material assistance (if any are doing so) can now be prosecuted for it. There is no need to even allege, let alone to prove beyond reasonable doubt, that those people have themselves committed or conspired to commit a terrorist act. Merely giving the material support is sufficient. And that can’t be done to domestic organizations, or to people who aren’t organizations.
I’m NOT commenting on the legal implications of being a designated foreign terrorist organization. I’m criticizing your dismissal of the president’s accurate description of Antifa as domestic terrorists as an inconsequential press release.
You started in this string: “….and there is no such thing in US law as a domestic terrorist organization.” Not quite correct since federal law does define “domestic terrorism “ (18 USC Sec. 2331 (5)). It is loosely defined by the purpose of certain “acts” that can end up being charged both against individuals OR organizations which commit other federally defined criminal acts.
Then you went on: “There are none [laws or consequences] addressing domestic terrorist organizations. Domestic antifans who have not themselves committed or conspired to commit a crime, or who can’t be proved beyond a reasonable doubt to have done so, can’t be prosecuted….” Also not really correct because they would be charged, not simply by virtue of a definitional provision such as Sec 2331(5), but under specific federal criminal statutes involving acts against federal officers, property and civilians and can include crimes of conspiracy or, RICO. Individuals have, I believe, been charged with federal crimes with a “domestic terrorism” predicate.
Then you moved onto: “You seem to have lost sight of the fact that ‘designated foreign terrorist organization’ is not just some fancy label, it’s a legal status with serious legal consequences.” Yes, indeed. They could be denied (or physically monitored such as present DNI Gabbard was) from/on air travel and be subjected to FISA monitoring. Of course the problem with Gabbard’s situation is that she hadn’t remotely participated in any individual activities or organizations that had committed any federal law violation. She hadn’t remotely participated in a federal crime, but simply spoken out against abuses of federal LE and IC actions.
So Antifa is absolutely fair prosecutorial game as “domestic terrorists” who have committed or conspired to commit federal crimes….. think back to Antifa’s organizational actions at the Federal Courthouse in Portland over a long period of time.
You’re thinking of the Democrat party; not exactly a branch, nor foreign.
wow
attacking an idea
get em!
It’s time to put the hammer down on Antifa President Trump
Stop with the pepper spray and rubber bullets
Overwhelm them with numbers, and follow the money
Time to end this crap
Fantastic.
Now, when do we learn about prison sentences so long that their great grandchildren will never see the light of day?
Sternly worded press releases mean 💩. I want convictions!
Prison sentences for what? These four groups have no presence in the USA, so their members are unlikely to be arrested or tried here. It’s unlikely that anyone here is giving them any material support, so those people won’t be arrested or tried. So who exactly do you expect to be sentenced?
so hilter youth might actually have to answer for their violent actions
No, it just means people in the USA can’t give them donations, which in all likelihood wasn’t happening anyway. And their known members can’t get visas to the USA. This has no effect on our domestic communist terrorists, who can’t be designated as a group and must each be tried only for the crimes they themselves commit or conspire to commit.
Seriously, why the Hell does it take so long to do this?
Seriously why was it even done now? There’s no reason for the state department to focus on these four tiny groups in foreign countries, that have no impact on the USA and most people here have never heard of; they’ve only been listed because the local antifa groups have been in the news.
Because if the domestic groups communicate with, fund, interact with, train with, or otherwise aid or support or connect with the foreign terrorist groups, the government can get search warrants regarding the domestic groups, freeze and seize assets, and otherwise prosecute the domestic groups.
To say nothing of the political benefits of being able to rhetorically connect the domestic groups to the foreign terrorist organizationss and forcing domestic antifa to try to differentiate themselves from the foreign groups.
Does anyone else find it interesting how our resident demoralizer rushes to defend antifa?
“They’re just an idea’
“Four small organizations’
‘Foreign organizations’
Why bother? What a waste. This doesn’t matter..
As of this writing, 6 of the 17 comments are in defense of antifa, from the usual source.
I am surprised no one has mentioned the “Proud Boys” who have been designated as a violent domestic terrorist organization by the Biden administration, and I don’t understand why the same can’t be done with Antifa in the US.
I suppose the Soros’ might want to be careful about who they write their checks to.