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Mark > On Jan 3, 2026, at 12:54, abraham Weizfeld PhD via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > JPLO & DDM Note : The suspension/shutting down of the Abraham Weizfeld > YouTube Channel, the Reddit filter which censors some Here & Now poscasts of > steve Struggle and myslef, and the Tiktok delisting of the Here & Now videos > - together with the supression of the RedPagan Nikole YouTube channel - are > the result of the current campign to supress the Antifa movement and concept. > Our work on behalf of the ongoing revolutionary processes in the world is a > generalized revolutionary socialist series of advances that have challenged > the imperial dominance of the USA and the mini-empire of the Zionist State. > What we have ongoing now is a world permanent socialist revolution being > faced by the counter-revolutionary fascist wave of repression eminating from > the USA. > > > > > Antifa Everywhere - In These Times > <https://inthesetimes.com/article/antifa-everywhere-war-on-terror-cve-material-support-laws-hlf5-terrorism> > > Antifa Everywhere > > As Trump revives the war on terror against domestic opposition, what does > antifascism mean? > > On the night Zohran Mamdani won New York City’s mayoral election, he > delivered a rousing victory speech that made explicit the connection between > his economic agenda and the national fight against authoritarianism. Calling > out President Donald Trump, Mamdani declared > <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/05/zohran-mamdani-victory-speech-transcript>, > “If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very > conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.” > Several weeks later — after that despot had threatened to besiege New York > City with immigration raids and strip its federal funding, should Mamdani win > <https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mamdani-trump-9.6967833>—the mayor-elect stood > beside Trump during a surreal White House press briefing. When a reporter > pressed Mamdani on whether he still considered the president a fascist, the > jovial, clearly charmed Trump interjected, “You can just say yes. … It’s > easier than explaining it.” > > The response was disarmingly nonchalant, coming from the head of an > administration that has gone to great lengths to crush opposition to fascism > elsewhere. > > > > In late September 2025, two weeks after the assassination of Turning Point > USA founder Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration released its National > Security Presidential Memorandum-7 > <https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/countering-domestic-terrorism-and-organized-political-violence/> > (NSPM-7). The memo singled out “anti-fascism” as the “organizing rallying > cry” for a widespread and well-funded network set on overthrowing the United > States, propagating “anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and > anti-Christianity,” and promoting “extremism on migration, race, and gender.” > Earlier that same week, Trump issued a new executive order, “Designating > Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization.” > > As legal experts pointed out, no U.S. law exists that “provides for [the] > designation of a domestic terrorism organization > <https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-s-up-with-the-terror-indictment-against-alleged-antifa-members>.” > But the label can still serve to turn political opponents into pariahs. As > Thomas E. Brzozowski, who formerly worked on the issue of domestic terrorism > at the Department of Justice, observed > <https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-can-t-designate--antifa--banks-and-platforms-will-act-like-you-did-anyway>, > even if the Trump administration’s efforts to designate “antifa” as a > terrorist organization can’t withstand legal review, “it can still do the > work of law in the streets, on bank compliance desks, and across social media > platforms,” pressuring individuals and institutions into anticipatory > compliance. > > The administration, which is particularly keen to publicize supposed > connections between antifa and progressive nonprofits, is certainly trying to > claim legal authority. The NSPM-7 memo, which suggests the attorney general’s > office has the authority to designate domestic terrorist organizations, also > directs federal investigators to prioritize certain charges, such as > “providing material support to terrorists.” And in October and November > 2025, DOJ prosecutors appear to have followed these directives closely in the > federal indictments of nine individuals > <https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/antifa-cell-members-indicted-prairieland-shooting> > allegedly responsible for the July 4 armed attack on federal and local > officers during a protest against Trump’s immigration policies at the > Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. > > The indictment refers to what it calls the “North Texas Antifa Cell > <https://www.foxnews.com/us/antifa-members-indicted-texas-ice-facility-riot-attempted-murder-officer>” > (in terms that replicate > <https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-s-up-with-the-terror-indictment-against-alleged-antifa-members>those > used in Trump’s executive order) as “a militant enterprise made up of > networks of individuals and small groups primarily ascribing to a > revolutionary anarchist or autonomous Marxist ideology.” Similar to how > anti-racketeering laws were used > <https://inthesetimes.com/article/war-protest-standing-rock-cop-city-repression-criminalize-dissent-political-rights-first-amendment> > in 2023 to ensnare nonviolent Cop City protesters and their supporters, the > Prairieland indictment includes people who were not even present during the > Alvarado protest when the attack took place. Among them is Daniel Sanchez > Estrada > <https://theintercept.com/2025/12/04/antifa-zines-accidental-release-texas-ice-protest/>, > whose supposed crime is “transporting a box containing numerous Antifa > materials > <https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndtx/pr/antifa-cell-members-indicted-prairieland-shooting>” > — namely, anarchist zines. > A recently leaked DOJ memo from Bondi sets out how to implement NSPM-7 in > even broader and vaguer terms, directing the department to compile a list of > “domestic terrorist” groups based on their opposition to Trump’s agenda, as > well as soliciting public tips on Left activism, in what journalist Ken > Klippenstein calls “a bounty system for anti-Trump thought > <https://www.democracynow.org/2025/12/8/ken_klippenstein_fbi_domestic_terrorism_nspm7>.” > > But for all its intimidatory force, the domestic terrorist designation is > still too legally questionable to fulfill the administration’s repressive > ambitions, which — as detailed by Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Stephen > Miller, on a late September 2025 podcast—include > <https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250915-white-house-vows-to-take-on-left-wing-terror-movement-after-kirk-killing> > using all of the federal government’s investigative and punitive tools to > “identify, disrupt, dismantle and destroy” the radical Left networks that > Miller blamed for Kirk’s murder, to “make America safe again for the > American people.” > > Three weeks later, on October 8, the White House convened a “roundtable > <https://www.whitehouse.gov/videos/president-trump-participates-in-a-roundtable-on-antifa/> > on Antifa.” A bevy of far-right activists, including PizzaGate conspiracy > theorist Jack Posobiec and right-wing social media influencer Andy Ngo, spoke > alongside government officials, including Trump, Miller, Attorney General Pam > Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. Posobiec tellingly claimed that antifa > “has been around in various iterations for almost a hundred years…going back > to the Weimar Republic in Germany” — which is to say, when the Left and the > workers’ movement organized against rising Nazism — and Ngo suggested > antifa’s “international arm” be designated a foreign terrorist organization. > Asked during the meeting whether he would push for such a designation, Trump > responded affirmatively, directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, “Let’s > get it done, Marco <https://www.rev.com/transcripts/antifa-roundtable>.” > > > > Rubio followed through in November, announcing > <https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/11/designations-of-antifa-ost-and-three-other-violent-antifa-groups> > the United States had declared four European “antifa” groups, from Germany, > Italy and Greece, to be “Specially Designated Global Terrorists” to be added > to the government’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. > The four groups (only one of which describes itself as antifascist) have > participated in actions that could fall under some legal definitions of > terrorism: Germany’s “Antifa Ost” allegedly attacked a 2023 Hungarian > neo-Nazi rally; the other three anarchist formations have carried out violent > actions against various political targets over the past decade, including a > nuclear engineering CEO and Greek riot police. But they are also small, > marginal entities that pose no threat to U.S. national security — let alone > are “conspiring to undermine the foundations of Western Civilization through > their brutal attacks <https://x.com/StateDept/status/1989034285819740531>,” > as Rubio’s announcement put it. > > Behind the hyperbole lies a more concrete agenda: the administration’s > efforts to define antifa as an international conspiracy, so that American > antifascist groups and activists can be declared part of a “foreign > terrorist organization.” While Trump’s threats to name protesters as domestic > terrorists are legally dubious, the FTO designation carries enormous > discretionary powers, especially when it comes to allegations of material and > financial support — as demonstrated by the federal terrorism prosecution of > five Muslim Americans raising donations for Palestine in the early 2000s case > of the Holy Land Five > <https://www.aljazeera.com/video/al-jazeera-world/2016/10/5/the-holy-land-five>. > > Taking the next step to designate such antifascist organizing as foreign > terrorism could unleash a limitless repressive arsenal, especially since the > antifa label does not refer to a formal organization but the loosest of > networks and identities, and the U.S. government is happy to apply the label > to the most diverse targets — from Greek anarchists to Americans blowing > whistles at immigration raids. > > As Brzozowski notes > <https://www.justsecurity.org/122643/antifa-threaten-civil-liberties/>, such > a designation could be used to justify everything from denaturalizing > naturalized citizens who participate in protests or donate to activist > groups, to private litigation against antifascist activists, to invasive > surveillance under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to silencing > academic speech and research that could be associated with antifascism. > > > > The chilling effect on political organizing is already becoming apparent: In > October 2025, the International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund > <https://theintercept.com/2025/11/15/antifa-terrorist-rubio-nazi-material-support/>, > which raises money for antifascists facing government repression, shut down > its U.S. fundraising infrastructure in response to Trump’s orders. > Trump opponents who think this wave of repression will not touch them might > want to think again. The ultimate targets of this grotesque Red Scare revival > — in which antifa is implausibly cast as a terror network rivaling ISIS > <https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-antifa-roundtable-9.6932606> in menace > and sophistication — are not the peripheral groups allegedly involved in acts > of violence in Budapest or Alvarado. It’s the mass antifascist movement that > has emerged in response to the occupation of U.S. cities by federal agents, > the disappearance of immigrants (or those who look like them) and anyone who > comes to their aid. > > In Chicago, and other cities now learning from Chicago, this everyday > antifascism includes various grassroots practices > <https://fortune.com/2025/11/16/chicago-resists-ice-immigration-raids-orange-whistle-little-village/>, > from rapid response networks and community patrols to whistle and car-horn > alerts, school escorts and buyouts that help food vendors remain out of > harm’s way. But these popular protests have also found an echo in city > government, with Mayor Brandon Johnson urging the crowd at an October “No > Kings” rally, “Are you ready to fight fascism? Are you prepared to destroy > authoritarianism once and for all? > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPoqUrWnqI0>” > > The defense of migrants against a violent and racist deportation machine > shows how genuine antifascism is built out of practices of solidarity; it > need not label itself antifa nor name fascism as its target. Much the same > could be said of the encampment movement against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, > which reinvented for our dark moment theinternationalism that has always been > a defining feature of antifascism > <https://inthesetimes.com/article/fascism-debate-trump-democrats-gaza-campus-protest>. > > But a popular antifascism that is actually capable of countering Trump’s > repressive onslaught, with all its conspiracy theories and legal threats, > will also need to tap further into the material, economic bases of the > struggle against authoritarianism. As demonstrated by federal anti-immigrant > worksite raids > <https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/understanding-ice-worksite-raids/>, > the Trump administration’s efforts to roll out a kind of border police state > manifest as an assault on the multiracial (and especially Latinx) working > class. > > Putting antifascist solidarity at the core of opposition to Trump and his > cronies can make explicit how the fight against the politics of fear, > hierarchy, privilege and domination is always grounded in an alternative > vision and practice of collective life — one in which our security and > well-being is not based on the insecurity and deprivation of others. > > > ALBERTO TOSCANO is the author of Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the > Politics of Crisis <https://www.versobooks.com/products/2627-late-fascism> > (Verso) and Terms of Disorder: Keywords for an Interregnum > <https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/T/bo196815165.html> > (Seagull). 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