WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to designate four violent left-wing groups based in Europe as either foreign terrorist organizations or specifically designated global terrorists as part of a broad crackdown on extremism.

US State Department officials announced the intended designation on Thursday, saying the Antifa groups — Antifa Ost, the International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self Defense — “use force against those they identify as opponents of their Marxist and anarchist projects.”

The groups from Germany, Italy and Greece have carried out dozens of attacks in Europe over recent years — including assaults, bombings of government buildings and shootings.

“The anarchists, Marxists, and violent extremists of Antifa have

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