Donald Trump’s administration has added four European left-wing groups to the U.S. government’s list of foreign terrorist organizations, marking a global escalation of the president’s war on ideological opponents that treats “Antifa” similarly to the Islamic state.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration is designating Germany’s Antifa Ost, Italy-based International Revolutionary Front, and two organizations in Greece — Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense — as both “Foreign Terrorist Organizations” and “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” that the administration claims are “conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks.”
