By Janice Hisle
The U.S. government has designated four Antifa groups as both “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
Those groups are: Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, the State Department said Nov. 13 in a fact sheet.Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the department made those designations in line with President Donald Trump’s “historic commitment to uproot Antifa’s campaign of political violence.”
The move came after the Trump administration declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization in September. The decision expands the government’s authority to investigate and prosecute.
Rubio, in a post on X, also said, “The United States will continue using all available tools to protect our nation from these anti-American, anti-capitalist, and anti-Christian terrorist groups.”
The State Department, in a separate X post about the designation, wrote: “Anarchist militants have waged terror campaigns in the United States and Europe, conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks.”
That action comes three days after Antifa-aligned protesters used violent tactics against attendees of an event that the conservative group, Turning Point USA, organized at the University of California-Berkeley.
The president issued an executive order labeling Antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” in late September, following the assassination of Turning Point’s cofounder, Charlie Kirk, as he spoke at a Utah college campus. The slaying has been tied to Antifa-type ideology and has been labeled a “political assassination.” The president has blamed leftists for Kirk’s slaying.
