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How to Respond to Donald Trump’s Threats to the Anti-Fascist Movement
While Donald Trump has announced on his social network that the “antifa” movement is now considered a “terrorist organization,” we offer you a translation of the text “Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression – How to Respond to Donald Trump’s Threats, published on September 18 on Crimethinc.com, which puts this statement in context, and then gives some advice not to panic. While Marine Le Pen, in 2017, already called for the dissolution of all “antifail militias,” and the rise to the power of the RN is no longer a chimera, this text, if it is rooted in American reality, is also instructive for us.
On September 17, in a post on Truth Social, Donald Trump said he would refer to “Antifa” as “a major terrorist organization.” What does this mean? How can we prepare for the storm?
It is always hard to know how much Trump’s performative statements should be taken seriously. He often makes delusional statements to test their impact on his audience: he throws ideas in the air to see what makes the nas a tide, and then he stumbles where there is no backlash.
But this time, his administration follows to the letter the classic manual of fascism. One of his supporters even went so far as to declare, without irony, that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was “the burning of the American Reichstag.”
The next step in this textbook is obvious: to broaden its targets, from immigrants to anarchists, to leftists, and ultimately extending to all opponents of the regime.
So yes, in the past, Trump has already made statements in which he referred to “antifa” as a “terrorist organization,” especially at the beginning of the revolt that followed the murder of George Floyd.
But at the time, the rest of the federal government was largely holding back its impulsiveness [1], while today, the entire federal executive is made up of zealous servants who are unable to distinguish their own interests from those of Trump.
Admittedly, there is no law that allows the president to designate internal terrorist organizations. But even without new legislation or new executive order, Trump has direct control over the Department of Justice, the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and other federal agencies. What he posts on social media is likely to indicate what he will soon order his subordinates.
The fact that “Antifa” does not refer to an organization in itself, but rather a fuzzy category that can include almost any opposition to its authoritarian agenda, makes it a very practical term for Trump [2]. It means that no matter who you are or what you do, you too could become a target.
While there is no designation of an “inner terrorist organization” at present (and there is no obvious mechanism for creating one), far-right prosecutors are already accustomed to making unfounded accusations of terrorism, to intimidate activists and social movement participants. Trump has explicitly called for the use of the RICO law [3]to repress its detractors. Some Republican senators are already supporting a bill that would add riots to the list of offences prosecuted under the RICO law.
There are precedents for what might happen: for example, two years ago, a large number of people in Atlanta, Georgia, were randomly charged under the RICO law for their involvement in the Stop Cop City movement.
Trials were repeatedly postponed, and less than a week ago, a judge finally rejected the majority of the charges for procedural defects4.
It remains to be seen to what extent the administration will actually carry out Trump’s threats, and whether it will begin by tackling core groups or acting in a top-down manner, targeting large liberal institutions and financing platforms.
In any case, our long-term future will depend on our ability to enable a large number of people to act in solidarity, by adopting forms of direct action at the grass-roots level, which can be effective even if the people in power refuse to listen.