Today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting an event with various governments for a Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism. The event focuses on the reemergence of this threat to society and encourages stronger joint action to reinforce frontline defenses and close the gaps the terrorist actors continue to exploit.
As part of the State Department effort, Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a remarkable speech to the audience. Within his remarks Rubio outlines the history of left-wing violence and lists current examples of how dangerous this has become. In many ways this is the anti-Obama speech that has long been needed.
This is a moment that can reset how we view terrorism in the 21st century, shifting from a terror-threat focus from Islamic extremism to the more pervasive threat from left-wing political violence. WATCH:
STATE DEPT – […] Far-left political terrorism is resurgent, manifesting in violent terrorist acts across the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia and beyond. These are not isolated incidents. They reflect a deliberate, ideologically motivated strategy to destabilize free societies by violently targeting our political and economic systems, including attacks against private citizens, government officials, police and law enforcement, businesses, and critical infrastructure around the globe. For too long, however, this threat has remained a blind spot in the international community’s counterterrorism focus, underestimated and under-resourced, despite the danger it poses.
The United States is taking a leading role in countering far-left terrorism. 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, as well as offered a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the disruption of the financial mechanisms of these same four organizations.
In recent months, the United States engaged also law enforcement, counterterrorism professionals, and prosecutors around the globe through direct engagements, as well as the inaugural Counterterrorism Law Enforcement Workshop (CTLEW) in May 2026, which convened 14 countries for a two-day, practitioner-focused workshop to exchange best practices for countering the threat of transnational far-left terrorism.
This Ministerial builds on that foundation, bringing together partners from across the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Asia to expand coordination, enhance information sharing, and strengthen international law enforcement mechanisms to counter the threat. Secretary Rubio will highlight the importance of deepening cooperation with international partners to better map violent activity, disrupt terrorist financing, protect critical infrastructure, and promote collective action against a threat that respects no borders. {SOURCE}
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Unfortunately, Secretary Rubio’s speech will fall on many deaf ears. The likes of France, Germany, the UK, Nigeria, Lebanon, et al have to acknowledge they have a problem with leftist terrorists to begin with. These countries are so far gone, they don’t know how to turn the bus around. They do not love their fellow countrymen one bit. They will let it all burn down so they can rule over the ashes.
That was my wondering thought – “This Ministerial builds on that foundation, bringing together partners from across the Western Hemisphere, Europe, and Asia…”
It would be a pleasant surprise to see those partners from Europe usefully responding in real time.
Time will tell – and we probably don’t have much of that.
Partners from Europe? They’re part of the problem.
Exactly. “partners from Europe” is one of those phrases that suggests we are not in a serious conversation.
Think Eastern Europe — they lived under the yoke of leftism until the Iron Curtain fell.
Hungary, Poland, Romania, maybe some others.
A growing chunk of Germany as in the ADF party, the non-globalist parties in the UK, other sizable factions that are growing even into the headwinds from their globalist establishment goons.
It’s like appealing to Schumer for common ground on these concerns. To that creature it’s a feature, not a problem.
“This is a moment that can reset how we view terrorism in the 21st century, shifting from a terror-threat focus from Islamic extremism to the more pervasive threat from left-wing political violence.”
Perhaps, however, I do not believe for a minute that the terror threat from Islamic extremism has ended. It most definitely remains alive and well. Worse, we see the left-wing political class embracing Islam at the same time it turns a blind eye to left-wing political violence (generous interpretation) or actively supports it (non-pretending interpretation).
Also, It is nice of Secretary Rubio to call out Antifa with Director of the FBI Patel in attendance yet in these very pages we have all read that Antifa would not exist if the FBI did not want it to exist. it would have been nicer if Secretary Rubio had called a spade a spade and spoken directly to the assembled audience about the need to root out leftist supporting ideologues across all of our institutions. We are ten years into knowing the extent to which our IC was weaponized by Obama and Holder yet to this date nary anyone has been held to account. But of course John Bolton was the priority case.
It’s not Islamic extremism; it’s Islam which has been around for 1,400+ years. The jihadists and the Leftists have formed an “unholy alliance” to destroy the West. If they succeed, the Leftists will then be snuffed.
The DOJ has to take it to Soros, Tides and a number of other funders of these blue orgs. Once the funding dries up 90% of this stops.
Why is Soros untouchable? That’s what escapes me.