As France’s fiery student protests merged with a nationwide revolt on Saturday, a communist leader and academic, Vijay Prashad, celebrated the unrest with a message linking protests across three continents.
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leader → merge → continents
“Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires,” Prashad posted on X, borrowing a line from the British punk band The Clash: “Let fury have the hour, anger can be power.”
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anger → post → hour
Prashad was important not only for what he said, but for who he is: executive director of Tricontinental Ltd., a nonprofit funded by an American-born Marxist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who lives in Shanghai.
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who → say → Shanghai
The message captured how France’s riots have become part of a wider international narrative of rebellion — a kind of “Chaos Inc.” — amplified by a transnational network of communist and socialist organizations stretching from Europe to Asia, Australia, Africa and South America and North America.
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A Fox News Digital investigation has identified 54 organizations and movements in France’s October student protests and their wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, including communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity organizations and international media outlets.
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investigation → identify → parties
Of the 54 organizations identified in the October protest ecosystem, 16 — or only about one in three — are student or youth organizations, including communist youth groups and a Muslim student association.
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16 → identify → groups
The remaining 38 include adult-led communist groups, labor unions, political parties, revolutionary-left organizations, advocacy groups and international propaganda outlets.
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38 → remain → groups
They include Gilets jaunes, or “Yellow Vests,” a radical far-left group that led protests with other groups this weekend, and far-left socialist political party La France Insoumise (LFI), or France Unbowed.
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that → include → groups
From the outset, far-left socialist and communist organizations helped organize and amplify France’s student revolt, using grievances over school conditions as a pretext to mobilize a broader political struggle against capitalism, government austerity, policing and military spending.
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organizations → organize → capitalism
In a sign of unrest to come, France is inspiring an expansion of Chaos Inc.
Fox News Digital has learned an international coalition of 28 communist and socialist youth and organizations are galvanizing students and youth for a coordinated strike across 12 countries in Europe under the slogan “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars!”
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coalition → come → Future
They are calling for walkouts, demonstrations, assemblies, blockades and occupations.
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Among the international amplifiers for this mayhem are organizations within the Singham network, including Tricontinental, named for a communist convention in Havana, Cuba, in 1966, CodePink and BreakThrough News, a New York-based media outlet, which promoted coverage of the weekend’s mayhem in France with the headline: “ANTI-MACRON PROTESTS ROCK FRANCE.”
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It shared a montage of chaotic scenes from Montpellier, Paris, Marseille, Bordeaux, Strasbourg and Saint-Étienne, showing activists engulfed in smoke, Palestinian flags flapping above the crowds, black smoke billowing over flames and police hitting demonstrators with clubs.
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police → share → clubs
Its editors added a soundtrack of dramatic music.
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Its videos include politicians from the far-left socialist political party La France Insoumise (LFI).
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videos → include → party
In an interview with BreakThrough News, Jodie Evans, Singham’s wife and co-founder of a far-left group he funded, CodePink, promoted a planned November campaign in Washington opposing US military spending.
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She explicitly invoked youth demonstrations abroad, including France, Spain and India, while urging Americans to participate in CodePink’s campaign.
“I want people to look at France, Spain and India,” Evans said, urging Americans to take to the streets.
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Fox News Digital has prepared a “Who’s Who Guide to Chaos Inc. in France,” identifying the 54 organizations in the international network promoting the riots and protests in France, from direct organizing to participation, public solidarity and media amplification.
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Who’s who in France’s ‘Chaos Inc.’ Network
Student unions and youth groups (16)
Communist and socialist student and youth groups
Communist Youth of Greece — COMMUNIST: A Greek communist youth organization that has publicly supported French students, connecting their education demands to opposition to military spending and government austerity.
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that → ’ → spending
It has also supported communist protesters in Madrid, Spain, and Greece.
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It → support → Madrid
A revolutionary student and youth organization associated with Révolution Permanente that works to connect high-school and university protests.
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that → associate → protests
Union de la Jeunesse Communiste (UJC) — Communist Youth Union — COMMUNIST: A French communist youth organization that called on supporters to join and amplify the student struggle.
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Student and youth groups
AFGES – Les étudiant·e·s d’Alsace — The Students of Alsace: A Strasbourg-based student federation affiliated with FAGE that posted about the early October mobilization while describing itself as politically independent.
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It coordinated protests in Strasbourg on Oct. 17 with an Instagram post that said, “MOBILISER,” which means “MOBILIZE.”
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which → coordinate → MOBILIZE
Another post invited activists onto the streets with the message, “LE COMBAT CONTINUE,” or “THE FIGHT CONTINUES.”
Étudiants Musulmans de France (EMF) — Muslim Students of France: A Muslim student association involved in student representation and campus solidarity whose social-media activity appears in the protest research; its exact Oct. 17 role remains unconfirmed.
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Fédération des associations générales étudiantes (FAGE) — Federation of General Student Associations: A national student federation that joined calls for student mobilization against the “extremely violent repression” of youth.
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that → join → youth
It shared footage of its members marching on Oct. 17, with the hashtags #manifestation #genz #17octobre.
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members → share → hashtags
A left-wing student organization whose activists appeared in demonstrations and announced “Democratic and Antifascist Vigilance Committees,” linking high-school grievances to the treatment of anti-Israel activists and union members.
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activists → appear → activists
On Saturday, it posted videos with its trademark solid red flags.
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One message read: “In Bordeaux, protesters invade the house of the mayor!
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protesters → read → mayor
Everyone is mobilizing for better living conditions, and against cutting the budget for public service!
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In Bordeaux, we hear echoing in the protest: Only one solution, the Revolution!
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The mobilization of the 17 continues: let’s block everywhere in France!”
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Rassemblement pour l’égalité et la démocratie Jeunes — Youth for Equality and Democracy: A youth civic and political organization associated with organizing support for students in Seine-Saint-Denis; its specific Oct. 17 role has not been independently established.
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Solidaires Étudiant·e·s — Solidaires Students: A left-wing student union that supported the high-school movement and helped connect university students with the October demonstrations.
Union Étudiante — Student Union: A national university student union that helped mobilize students for the Oct. 6 demonstrations and encouraged participation in the broader movement.
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Union nationale des étudiants de France (UNEF) — National Union of Students of France: One of France’s established student unions, it was among the organizers of the Oct. 6 nationwide demonstrations.
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Union syndicale lycéenne (USL) — High School Students’ Union: A French high-school student union that helped organize the initial school blockades and October demonstrations before publicly supporting students joining the Oct. 17 Yellow Vest mobilization.
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that → help → mobilization
International Communist League — TROTSKYIST: An international communist organization whose French publication Le Bolchévik called on labor unions to mobilize in support of the school protests.
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publication → call → protests
Jeunesse du Monde — COMMUNIST PUBLICATION: A communist publication associated with the Organisation Communiste de France; separate organizational participation in the October 17 protests has not been established.
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participation → associate → protests
A political movement whose elected officials supported student blockades, including lawmaker Louis Boyard, who waved a Palestinian flag alongside students at Paris-Est-Créteil University.
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…and 37 more, not listed.
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