Most of the groups amplifying student protests in France are part of a broader international movement of communists and pro-Palestinian activist groups, Fox News Digital reported Monday.
The outlet’s investigation found that just 16 out of 54 groups, roughly 1 in 3, are student or youth organizations — including communist youth groups and a Muslim student association.
Fox said the remaining 38 groups consist of adult-led communist cells, labor unions, leftist political parties, revolutionary groups and propaganda machines working to foster coordinated strikes in 12 European countries.
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Fox senior editor Asra Q. Nomani reported that these groups have used French student grievances over school conditions as “a pretext to mobilize a broader political struggle against capitalism, government austerity, policing and military spending.”
Their slogan: “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!”
Adult French groups involved in fomenting the protests include the far-left “Yellow Vests” and the socialist political party France Unbowed.
The Fox investigation also found significant political pressure coming from Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit funded by American-born Neville Roy Singham, a Marxist living in Shanghai.
“Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires,” Vijay Prashad, Transcontinental’s executive director, wrote Sunday in a social media post, referencing song lyrics from the British band the Clash.
Other groups involved in fomenting unrest include the propaganda outlet BreakThrough News and the activist group CodePink.
Fox News noted that CodePink founder Jodie Evans told BreakThrough News in an interview that she wanted Americans to join other nations’ populations in rallying on the streets.
“I want people to look at France, Spain and India,” Ms. Evans said.
French officials imposed localized curfews in several major cities after the weekend riots.
The unrest in France has spread, with crowds taking to the streets for weeks in major cities, fueling arrests, looting, injuries and violence in Italy, Albania and Spain, where elementary and secondary schoolteachers began an indefinite strike in Madrid last week. Teachers across Spain have staged walkouts over pay this year, the Associated Press reported.
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