US designates four European anti-fascist groups as terrorist threats

State department claims groups in Germany, Italy and Greece ‘conspiring to undermine foundations of western civilization’The US state department has announced that it will designate four European self-described anti-fascist groups as Foreign Terrorist Organisations, as the Trump administration broadens its campaign against what it portrays as an international wave of leftist violence.In a public statement on Thursday, the state department said it would designate Antifa Ost in Germany, the Italy-based International Revolutionary Front, and two organisations in Greece – Armed Proletarian Justice and Revolutionary Class Self Defense – as “Specially Designated Global Terrorists… conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through their brutal attacks”. Continue reading…