The United States has blacklisted German, Italian, and Greek anti-fascist and anarchist militants as terrorist groups, part of President Donald Trump’s broad crackdown on “Antifa” activists.
The designation makes group members ineligible to enter the United States, freezes any assets they may have in the world’s largest economy, and makes it a crime to provide material support to them.
The groups being designated include Germany’s Antifa Ost, which has a member on trial in Budapest for attempted assaults against people they deemed right-wing extremists in 2023. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States was targeting Antifa Ost and other groups as part of “Trump’s historic commitment to confront Antifa’s campaign of political violence.”
“Groups affiliated with this movement ascribe to revolutionary anarchist or Marxist ideologies, including anti-Americanism, ‛anti-capitalism’ and anti-Christianity, using these to incite and justify violent assaults domestically and overseas,” Rubio said in a statement.
The other groups being designated as foreign terrorist organizations include the Italian anarchist alliance FAI/FRI and two Greek anarchist groups, Armed Proletarian Struggle and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense.
