# The United States Designated Four Violent Far-Left Groups as Terrorist Organizations by the U.S. Department of State
> "Since November 2025, the United States has designated four violent far-left groups—Antifa Ost, the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI), Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense—as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists."
> **— U.S. Department of State**, *Media Note, July 15, 2026*
## Sources and Context
- **Source dossier:** [[research/Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism|Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism]].
- **Direct publication or recording:** [direct publication](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/07/secretary-rubio-to-host-ministerial-to-combat-the-resurgence-of-political-terrorism/).
- **Editorial form:** The Reminder preserves the prepared contiguous quotation; punctuation and spoken disfluency treatment are recorded in the candidate map when applicable.
- **Context and treatment:** The statement names the United States, governing period, four groups, and the two legal designations. It retains the first complete action from the longer source sentence and omits the following reward clause; [direct publication](https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesman/2026/07/secretary-rubio-to-host-ministerial-to-combat-the-resurgence-of-political-terrorism/), third paragraph. Dash typography regularized.
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## Related Topics
- [[wiki/U.S. Department of State|U.S. Department of State]]
- [[wiki/Counterterrorism|Counterterrorism]]
- [[wiki/Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism|Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism]]
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"Since November 2025, the United States has designated four violent far-left groups—Antifa Ost, the Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front (FAI/FRI), Armed Proletarian Justice, and Revolutionary Class Self-Defense—as Foreign Terrorist Organizations and Specially Designated Global Terrorists."
— U.S. Department of State, Media Note, July 15, 2026
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