Anti-fascist groups named as US terror threats 'barely exist', experts say

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Source: The Guardian

Tue 25 Nov 2025 08.00 EST
Last modified on Tue 25 Nov 2025 12.24 EST


Experts have told the Guardian the same anti-fascist groups the US state department recently named as foreign terrorist organizations and accused of “conspiring to undermine foundations of western civilization” barely qualify as groups, let alone terrorist organizations, and pose no active threat to Americans.

“The whole thing is a bit ridiculous,” said Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which tracks extremist movements worldwide, “because the groups designated by the administration barely exist and certainly aren’t terrorists.”

In a release put out earlier this month, the Trump administration, which has made no secret of its hatred for leftists in the US and abroad, named Antifa Ost in Germany, the Italy-based International Revolutionary Front, and two organisations in Greece – Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense – to its long list of designated terrorist organizations.

The four European groups, mostly protest collectives and streetfighters, find themselves in the company of the Islamic State and al-Qaida, the masterminds behind the 9/11 attacks, among others, as officially proscribed terrorist groups. “[They] pose absolutely no threat to the US,” said Beirich. “But this isn’t really about fighting terrorism. It’s about scaring the left and shifting the discussion away from far-right terrorism, which is where most real attacks are coming from in recent years.”

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