Left-wing terrorism is a serious problem in the United States, though for political reasons it doesn’t receive anything like the attention right-wing violence gets.
For example, when most people think of violence connected to abortion, they imagine attacks on abortion clinics — yet lately pro-abortion extremists have been firebombing crisis pregnancy centers across the country.
In perhaps the most consequential move to date by the Trump administration to address the challenge of what it calls the “political terrorism” of the far-left, the U.S. State and U.S. Treasury Departments announced this week the designation of the Autistici/Inventati Collective, an Italy-based anonymous tech collective, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.
As the State Department described in its official announcement, A/I Collective provides sophisticated tech tools for a variety of far-left extremist actors, including website hosting, a blogging suite known as “No.Blogs,” mail services, and similar tech services. Utilizing these anonymous tools, anarchist and autonomous groups issue communiques for designated terrorist groups, issue calls to commit criminal acts, and take credit for attacks against critical infrastructure and law enforcement both in the United States and abroad.
A female Antifa rioter was exposed as a liar after claiming she had only grabbed on to another protester being arrested for support.
Catherine Esperanza, 30, was told her claims about grabbing onto the protester outside a Portland ICE facility in May were nonsense, The Oregonian reported.
Esperanza claimed to have suffered a broken leg and that she was trying to steady herself and that issues with her hearing meant she missed orders to back off.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a powerful public declaration against domestic political terrorism in front of an international audience Thursday in Washington, D.C.
His concept of terrorism got at the heart of what fuels it: radical progressive leftism.
As he put it, radical leftism is “a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality and justice.”
This week, Marco Rubio is expected to launch a global war against Antifa.
Last week, the Washington Post reported that Secretary Rubio has invited senior officials from more than 60 countries to discuss the “resurgence of transnational far-left terrorism.” The meeting could pave the way for designating groups like Antifa as foreign terrorist organizations, unlocking a broader array of tools to monitor their activities and disrupt their operations across borders.
Far-left Antifa radicals descended upon the annual conference of the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany in Erfurt on Saturday, clashing with police and journalists.
While AfD delegates gathered at the Erfurt Exhibition Centre in the central German state of Thuringia to select party leadership, an estimated 20,000 leftist protesters demonstrated outside of the event, police told Die Welt.
Translation: Brutal hunting scenes and #Violence in #Erfurt: #Leftwingextremists attack journalists they mistake for #Rightwingers, beat them, kick them in the head while they’re on the ground. #Police then forcefully push back the violent offenders with batons and pepper spray!
Brutale Jagdszenen und #Gewalt in #Erfurt: #Linksextreme attackieren Journalisten, die sie für #Rechte halten, schlagen auf sie ein, treten am Boden auf den Kopf ein. #Polizei drängt Gewalttäter danach massiv mit Schlagstock und Pfefferspray zurück! #EF0407 #AfD
Fotos: Jan Ohmen pic.twitter.com/LKt7vAayVv— Frank Schneider (@chefreporterNRW) July 4, 2026
🔴 Drei Reporter von Apollo News wurden in Erfurt aus einer Antifa-Demo heraus gejagt und zusammengeschlagen.
Als sie die Demonstration filmten wurden sie von ca. einem Dutzend Personen verfolgt und zu Boden geschlagen, als sie am Boden lagen wurde immer wieder nachgetreten… pic.twitter.com/yICrfMvtXo
— Max Mannhart (@maxmannhart) July 4, 2026
Last July, a group of armed Antifa militants ambushed an ICE detention facility in Texas, bringing rifles, body armor, and military-style medical kits. During the attack, one officer was shot through the neck. On Tuesday, several Antifa militants who participated in the attack were sentenced — including one individual who was convicted of attempted murder.
But you might not necessarily glean that if you read the Washington Post’s headline of the story.
The federal indictment of 15 alleged antifa cell members in Minnesota on conspiracy charges last week is sending antifa’s leaders into a panic, scrambling over the case’s legal implications for the underground movement.
In response to last week’s raids on the residences of the defendants, allied antifa accounts across social media started circulating an alert warning others, “One of our comrades was arrested and all of their electronics were confiscated. Please alert all of your groups. Stay safe.”
A group of Texas protesters convicted of terrorism charges received unusually harsh sentences of at least 50 years in prison on Tuesday in a closely watched case that was widely seen as a test case of the Trump administration’s efforts to crack down on dissent.
After a three-week jury trial, the nine activists were all found guilty of a slew of criminal charges in March, stemming from a Fourth of July protest at an immigrant detention facility in Alvarado, Texas, south of Fort Worth. The demonstrators arrived late at night with a plan to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with those detained inside. A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.
Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state parliament member Michael Meister was brutally attacked outside his private residence in Rostock on Wednesday night, in what is being investigated as a politically motivated assault by suspected left-wing extremists.
Meister said he first felt “pressure in his back” and believes one of the attackers attempted to stab him from behind. The blow was reportedly stopped by a laptop inside his backpack. The AfD politician nevertheless sustained several injuries during the attack, including a “cut to his left arm,” a kick to his leg, and “at least one punch to the face.”
Fifteen suspects are accused of conspiring with two Minneapolis-based Antifa groups to violently interfere with federal immigration enforcement, authorities announced on Tuesday.
Daniel Rosen, who heads the U.S. attorney’s office for Minnesota, told reporters at his Minneapolis headquarters on June 16 that agents arrested 12 of the 15 suspects; one was already in custody for other offenses.
While filming an Antifa-led riot against ICE in Newark, New Jersey, investigative journalist Cameron Higby and his security detail were assaulted and robbed late Friday night.
Rioters had erected barricades to prevent police from entering into Newark’s ICE detention facility, Delaney Hall, but only managed to block out ambulances and EMS.
One of the leftist rioters in New Jersey filmed himself laughing and cheering after conservative journalist Cam Higby was attacked and had his phone stolen and damaged by an Antifa mob.
He blames Cam for starting the altercation, even though the video suggests otherwise. https://t.co/9PVviyQHML pic.twitter.com/gORCX6ZIZD
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) May 30, 2026
The Department of National Defence (DND) says it does not centrally track Antifa involvement among members of the Canadian Armed Forces or its employees, saying there is no “common definition” of the movement.
In an April 13 response to an order paper question by Conservative MP Garnett Genuis, the DND said it does “in-depth screenings” to identify past records of extremism or hateful conduct but does not “centrally track involvement with Antifa in its human resources systems.”
A series of prosecutions and a landmark trial signal a shift toward treating Antifa as a terrorist threat, testing whether the rule of law can restrain political violence.
Donald Trump is not our Caesar. Yet could he be our Sulla? Given the American Right’s inability (or refusal) to build a mass movement capable of matching the Left when it comes to protests, fundraising, campaigns, and political organization, state action from the top is the last card to play. Recently, the Trump administration won a major legal victory that could provide a way forward if we are serious about ending the seditionist groups that have plagued nationalists for so many decades. More importantly, another case could end the threat altogether.
It’s tragic and pathetic that the Trump administration has received so much criticism for “doing nothing,” given what the online Right has done in the months since Charlie Kirk’s murder.
On March 21st, Portugal hosted its March for Life. Organised by Catholic groups with the support of Pope Leo XVI, thousands marched through the streets of Lisbon and Porto against abortion and euthanasia.
Such marches have taken place before, but, as the years go by and parties like Chega incrementally grow, so do the numbers of participants.
