Key figures linked to Antifa have fled the United States following President Donald Trump’s designation of the group as a domestic terrorist organization.
Antifa originated in Germany as Antifaschistische Aktion (Antifascist Action), a united front program of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Russia in the early 1920s. It functioned as the violent wing of the Communist Party of Germany and branded all its political rivals as “fascists.”