Guest post by Drieu Godefridi
On 13 November 2025, the United States finally broke the great Western taboo: it added four far-left European organisations — including Antifa Ost — to its list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Not to score political points, but because the evidence reads like the charge sheet of a paramilitary sect: hammer attacks, shootings, Molotov cocktails, bombings, and improvised explosive devices aimed at civilians, police, journalists, businesses and public infrastructure.
In other words: terrorism, wrapped in the Antifa aesthetic of moral superiority.
This American decision didn’t emerge from a vacuum. Hungary had already taken the lead in September 2025, designating Antifa Ost as a terrorist organisation after a wave of coordinated assaults in Budapest — torched police vehicles, smashed shops, and ambushes on right-wing activists.
While Brussels mutters clichés about “complex contexts,” Washington applies the same playbook it uses against jihadists and drug cartels: freeze the money, sever the networks, criminalise all support. Up to 20 years in prison for anyone in the U.S. who materially assists these groups.
The case files are devastating.
Antifa Ost, operating from Leipzig and Berlin, has claimed responsibility for dozens of targeted attacks — including a hammer assault on a conservative conference in Saxony and the arson of a Bavarian police training centre.
In Italy, the International Revolutionary Front distributes homemade-explosive guides and ambushes union marches that don’t toe the revolutionary line.
In Greece, Armed Proletarian Justice fired automatic weapons at a shipowner’s HQ, while Revolutionary Class Self-Defence planted a bomb in central Athens, leaving civilians grievously injured.
These are not spontaneous outbursts. They are the direct implementation of a doctrine stated clearly in encrypted communiqués:
“Strike the class enemy wherever he is found.”
A message gleefully sanitised by segments of the European press — violence becomes acceptable when the perpetrators wave red and black flags.
The hypocrisy is grotesque.
Remember the 2023 Budapest attacks during Honour Day: fifteen militants, Germans and Italians included, roaming the city with hammers, telescopic batons and tear gas. Nine victims. Broken bones. Permanent injuries. A coordinated, cross-border assault — the textbook definition of terrorism. And yet one of the attackers, Italian citizen Ilaria Salis, became in 2024 member of the European Parliament, cloaked in parliamentary immunity and funded by European taxpayers.
If this weren’t real, it would sound like satire.
The U.S. State Department, at least, is unambiguous:“Left-wing terrorism does not enjoy ideological immunity.”
A sentence one longs to hear echoed in Paris, Berlin or Brussels.
The transatlantic consequences are far-reaching.
Tracking of financial flows — crypto donations, Patreon collections, encrypted transfers — is now coordinated between U.S. Treasury and European intelligence. German universities where Antifa Ost cells previously recruited have received federal orders to cooperate. And under pressure from Hungary and Poland, the EU is finally, reluctantly, discussing a unified terrorist list that would include far-left networks which have long operated with impunity.
This is not an “ideological crackdown.”
It is a long-overdue reckoning with groups that kill, maim and terrorise in the name of a fossilised utopian script that increasingly overlaps with Islamist movements under the banner of “shared struggle.”
Criticising capitalism is not terrorism. Waving a hammer in the face of a political opponent is.
The First Amendment in the U.S. stops where incitement to violence begins — a lesson Europe would do well to relearn.
The era of selective outrage is ending.
Antifa is no longer the media’s favourite “militant subculture.” It is now recognised for what it has become: a transnational paramilitary network, a cult of political violence, and the West’s most indulged blind spot.
The hammer has fallen.
Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain), philosopher (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain) and PhD in legal theory (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He is an entrepreneur, CEO of a European private education group and director of PAN Medias Group. He is the author of The Green Reich (2020).
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