Marco Rubio looks to inspire global crackdown on far-left ‘terrorism’ – thenationalnews.com
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is hosting an international summit in Washington on Thursday that aims to address the threat of “far-left political terrorism”.
The administration of President Donald Trump says countries around the world have a blind spot for what US officials see as a rising wave of left-wing political violence.
Mr Trump has clamped down on left-wing groups, particularly Antifa, and has proclaimed that the decentralised anti-fascist movement is a domestic terrorist organisation. Antifa has frequently protested against his hardline immigration enforcement.
Mr Trump has also blamed left-wing extremism for the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last year.
At least 65 countries have been invited to attend Thursday’s day-long event. A senior State Department official told reporters that some interior or foreign ministers would be among those attending.
The summit would help counter-terrorism officials to discuss what the Trump administration says is a growing and sophisticated global threat, the official said.
“Far-left political terrorism is resurgent, manifesting in violent terrorist acts across the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia and beyond,” the State Department said in a statement. “These are not isolated incidents. They reflect a deliberate, ideologically motivated strategy to destabilise free societies”.