The Trump administration on Thursday designated four European Antifa groups as global terrorist networks.
“Antifa Ost in Germany, International Revolutionary Front in Italy, and the Greek groups Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense will be added to the State Department’s [foreign terrorist organizations] list alongside Al Qaeda and ISIS,” The Daily Caller reported.
“Foreign terrorist designations make it a crime to provide ‘material support’ such as funding to the group, require immigration officials to keep its members out of the country and allow victims of the group’s attacks to sue for damages in U.S. court,” the report continued.
Antifa Ost, also known as Hammerbande (Hammer Gang in English), is a particularly nasty Antifa cell known for attacking victims with hammers in an attempt to break their bones:
One of the Antifa groups designated by the State Department as a Foreign Terrorist Organization is Antifa Ost, aka Hammerbande. They are known for carrying out brutal hammer and melee attacks on unsuspecting victims. They aim to break their victims’ bones. https://t.co/VmDhtqoTMX
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) November 14, 2025
“Antifa Ost conducted numerous attacks against individuals it perceives as ‘fascists’ or part of the ‘right-wing scene’ in Germany between 2018 and 2023 and is accused of having conducted a series of attacks in Budapest in mid-February 2023,” according to the State Department.
“The designation of Antifa Ost and other violent Antifa groups supports President Trump’s National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, an initiative to disrupt self-described ‘anti-fascism’ networks, entities, and organizations that use political violence and terroristic acts to undermine democratic institutions, constitutional rights, and fundamental liberties,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.
“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,” he added.
Antifa Ost is a terrorist organization based in Germany that is infamous for wielding hammers in premeditated attacks against unsuspecting victims.
This Antifa group was named a terrorist organization by Hungary after it attacked nine victims in Budapest. pic.twitter.com/uszz3beosZ
— Department of State (@StateDept) November 13, 2025
The designations come after Republican Sen. Eric Schmitt sent Rubio a letter requesting that he take action against Antifa.
“I’m grateful to Secretary Rubio and the Trump Administration for working with me on this critical issue – holding these radical groups who enable, fund, and support political violence in the United States and across the world accountable,” Schmitt said in a statement.
“Each of these groups are violent cells in this transnational operation. Designating them as FTO’s is an important step to dismantling this subversive network of far-left extremism,” he added.
*Graphic content alert
Die Hammerbande. pic.twitter.com/HKl0B3Y4Rw
— Peter F. Kociemba (@PeterFKociemba) November 13, 2025
The other targeted Antifa cells/groups are also problematic.
The Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI) is a “militant anarchist group” that “has claimed responsibility for threats of violence, bombs, and letter bombs against political and economic institutions” since 2003, according to the State Department.
Armed Proletarian Justice, meanwhile, is an anarchist and anti-capitalist Antifa branch/group “that has attempted and conducted improvised explosive device (IED) attacks against Greek government targets.”
And Revolutionary Class Self-Defense is another Greek anarchist and anti-capitalist group that’s “claimed responsibility for two IED attacks targeting the Greece Ministry of Labor (February 3, 2024) and the Hellenic Train offices (April 11, 2025).”
“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,” a State Department spokesperson told The Daily Caller.
“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,” they added.
Antifa is, of course, also present in the United States, though it doesn’t appear to be as organized here as it is in Europe — though it is certainly as equally nasty and violent:
I don’t want people to forget the brutality and violent cruelty of the BLM–Antifa rioters in Portland during 2020.
On Aug. 6, 2020, an elderly woman from the neighborhood confronted rioters outside the Portland Police East Precinct, pleading with them to stop their attack. The… pic.twitter.com/og4Frorf8g
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) October 13, 2025
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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