Several high-profile Antifa figures have left the country or are making preparations to leave the country soon.
After President Donald Trump called Antifa a domestic terrorist threat and told federal officials to break up terrorist networks in the US, news of their escape came.
Mark Bray, who funds international Antifa operations and is the most important Antifa thinker in the United States, said he is leaving for Europe, preferably Spain, because he is worried about his safety.
Before his departure, Bray issued an apparent call to action, urging widespread militancy. “Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us,” Bray declared on Bluesky, a popular platform on the political Left.
Bray, an assistant professor at Rutgers University, will keep teaching seminars on “Terrorism” and “The History of Antifascism” online, even though students have signed a Change.org petition asking for his firing.
Critics on campus have called Bray “Dr. Antifa” in a mocking way since he openly advocates far-left violence in his academic work. Bray’s book, Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, is a how-to guide that is meant to be used as “reference” material for getting rid of what he calls “fascism.”
Half of the money made from his book goes to the funding arm of Antifa International, which helps hundreds of groups across the world, including official antifa groups in the US like Atlanta Antifascists and Central Oregon Anti-Fascist Action.
