Once again, the capitalist state has unmasked itself. On 12–13 September 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly removed a study from its website. This was no trivial bureaucratic update, but the suppression of evidence. The study, published by the National Institute of Justice under the title What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism, had compiled three decades of data. Its conclusion was unambiguous:
- Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed 227 attacks resulting in over 520 deaths.
- By contrast, so-called far-left or radical Islamist extremists accounted for only 42 attacks and 78 deaths.
In plain language: far-right terrorism in the United States is not a marginal threat but the overwhelming majority of politically motivated violence.
Why, then, was this study erased? The timing is instructive. Its disappearance followed the shooting of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk on 10 September — an event the reactionary press immediately weaponized to wail about “leftist terror.” In that moment, the Department of Justice found itself embarrassed by its own research, which showed the opposite: that for thirty years it has been the reactionary right that slaughters workers, immigrants, and minorities. To preserve the myth of “equal extremisms” — and to shield the far-right auxiliary troops of the capitalist class — the facts were buried.
The Department’s excuse was mealy-mouthed: a vague reference to “reviewing websites and materials in accordance with executive orders.” In reality, this was the hand of the capitalist state protecting its own.
This is not “incompetence.” It is not “cowardice.” It is the logic of class power.
The far-right thug, the white-supremacist terrorist, the armed nationalist — these are not alien to the American ruling class. They are its auxiliary troops. They perform the function of intimidating the worker, the Black person, the immigrant, the organizer, the communist. They are permitted to grow and to arm because their violence serves capital.
And the so-called “leftist violence”? In the United States it scarcely exists at all. Yet the capitalist press and police scream of “antifa terror” precisely to equate the defensive resistance of the oppressed with the murderous campaigns of fascists. This is why the study had to be buried: to admit reality would be to reveal that the real “domestic enemy” of the American worker is not some mythical red menace but the fascist gangs shielded by the police, tolerated by the courts, and silently encouraged by the capitalists.
The working class must draw the lesson: do not trust the state of the exploiters. Its “justice” serves private property, not truth. Its statistics appear only when convenient, and vanish when they threaten to arm the proletariat with knowledge.
Only the overthrow of capital can put an end to this alliance of banker, policeman, and lynch-mob. For the capitalist class, far-right terror is a useful tool. For the proletariat, it is a mortal danger. For socialism, it is the enemy that must be smashed.
