The administration of United States President Donald Trump has designated four European groups as “specially designated global terrorists” for their links to the loose-knit, left-wing movement known as “antifa”.

Thursday’s announcement was yet another step in Trump’s campaign to dismantle antifa, short for “anti-fascist”.

The four sanctioned groups include Antifa Ost in Germany; the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI) in Italy; Armed Proletarian Justice in Greece; and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense, also in Greece.

As part of Thursday’s statement, the US Department of State declared additional plans to list the four groups as “foreign terrorist organisations”, effective November 20.

It accused the four groups of a number of violent acts across

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