French protests part of international network, Fox News investigation finds

Summarised from Fox News's report · Updated 19 Oct, 12:01 · Archive

A Fox News investigation identified 54 organisations amplifying France's student protests, from communist groups to labor unions across multiple continents.

A Fox News Digital investigation identified 54 organisations involved in France's October student protests and their wider international network of supporters. The organisations include communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates and Palestinian-solidarity organisations. Of these, 16 are student or youth organisations, whilst the remaining 38 are adult-led groups including political parties, labor unions and advocacy organisations. They include the Yellow Vests, a radical far-left group, and La France Insoumise, a far-left socialist political party.

Communist leader and academic Vijay Prashad, executive director of Tricontinental Ltd., celebrated the protests by posting on X: 'Paris-New Delhi-Buenos Aires', linking unrest across three continents. Tricontinental Ltd. is a nonprofit funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born Marxist tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai. Fox News characterised this network as part of a wider international narrative of rebellion described as 'Chaos Inc.'

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• WHO'S WHO: Inside France's 'Chaos Inc.' franchise of communist groups, labor unions and global activistsCommunist leader Vijay Prashad celebrated France student protests as 54 organizations, from communist youth to labor unions, fuel a global rebellionFox News · 19 Oct, 09:00

In this story: Vijay Prashad · Neville Roy Singham · Tricontinental Ltd. · La France Insoumise · France · Paris · Shanghai

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