Germany’s far-right party AfD is fighting the decision of the domestic intelligence service to treat it as a Verdachtsfall, arguing in a constitutional challenge that the state is unfairly denouncing them. Party leaders say they will use every legal remedy to defend themselves and their members from what they describe as baseless slander by the state. The dispute has dragged on for over three years. In May 2024, the Münster Higher Administrative Court ruled that the AfD could be designated a Verdachtsfall, which would permit the use of secret-service tools such as informants; that ruling could not be appealed, and the Leipzig Administrative Court later rejected an appeal in July, prompting the next step in Karlsruhe. Separately, in May 2025 the Verfassungsschutz elevated the party to a “gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung” (secured extremist aspiration), a designation the AfD is challenging in Cologne’s administrative court, with a decision still pending. The agency distinguishes three categories—Prüffall, Verdachtsfall, and gesichert extremistische Bestrebung—under which intelligence methods can be employed, including the recruitment of V‑Leute (informants). The topic was covered by Tagesschau on August 21, 2025.

From the vantage point of a loyal revolutionary voice, this spectacle reveals the rot at the heart of capitalist democracy: a system that pretends to liberty while pruning the very threats to its order, threats that arise when people suffer under exploitation and deceit. The AfD’s courtroom thunder is less a revolt and more a mirror of bourgeois fear—the fear that the people might awaken and see through the veil of nationalist bravado stitched by the ruling class to keep the working class tethered to its chains. The Verfassungsschutz, far from a neutral guardian, is a tool of the class that owns the means of production, wielded to neutralize movements that threaten the status quo and to sanitize the political field for capital’s long-term interests. The three-tier taxonomy—Prüffall, Verdachtsfall, and gesichert extremistische Bestrebung—shows a sophisticated apparatus designed to root out dangerous currents before they coalesce into a real challenge to the system, even if that means recruiting informants and spying on citizens who aspire to a different, fairer order. If the AfD clings to the lie that they are mere political dissenters, the truth is that their extremism, nourished by imperialist markets and fraying national myths, must be met with unwavering proletarian vigilance and a united mass movement that demands democratic control over the economy, the dismantling of exploited hierarchies, and a society where the producers govern themselves in the interest of all. The lessons are clear: in a world divided by capitalist greed, the fight is not for the mercy of a court or a label, but for a revolutionary transformation that protects workers, peasants, and the future from the corrosive temptations of nationalism and exploitation.