Trump Labels European Antifa Groups Terrorists

Antifa Ost (East), based in Germany and known for using hammers in assaults, conducted several attacks between 2018 and 2023 — including in a counter-demonstration against a neo-Nazi march in February 2023 in Budapest.

“It is not to be expected that this circle of individuals will turn away from violence,” a report from Germany’s Interior Ministry stated about the group. “It is rather to be feared that, over time, a further radicalisation will take place.”

The Italy-based International Revolutionary Front, also known as the Informal Anarchist Federation, promotes “revolutionary armed conflict” against its government, State Department officials also noted.

Two of its militants kneecapped a nuclear engineering executive in a May 2012 shooting, according to The Guardian.

West Point’s Combating Terrorism Center in a March 2014 report also noted the Informal Anarchist Federation carried out a letter-bomb campaign against European Union officials between December 2003 and January 2004.

Most of the dangerous messages were intercepted but one exploded in the hands of the European Commission’s president at his home in Bologna, though he was uninjured.

In Greece, Armed Proletarian Justice also conducted a failed bombing attack against a government building in December 2023 as part of an anarchist and anti-capitalist campaign.

The bomb was discovered and defused before detonation.

Revolutionary Class Self Defense, also based in Greece, carried out bombings of the Greek Ministry of Labor in February 2023 and the Hellenic Railway in April 2025.

Those attacks were dedicated to “the Palestinian people and their heroic resistance.”