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THREAD:

Across Europe and beyond, a fresh wave of street mobilizations is being read by some observers as the latest chapter in a resurgent global contest between left and right.

- In France, high-school blockades over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings have drawn in major unions and the far-left La France Insoumise, with marches swelling into broader cost-of-living actions.

- In Spain, tenants’ unions and labor federations (CCOO and UGT) have driven nationwide protests against soaring rents and evictions, culminating in a snap election.

- In Belgium, the socialist and Christian unions have led anti-austerity marches, joined by students protesting education costs in a movement explicitly influenced by events across the border.

- In India, the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party has partnered with left student organizations such as AISA and SFI have found street mobilisation opportunities manufacturing public concerns over electoral rolls and earlier exam irregularities.

What unites these episodes is the organizational weight of left-leaning unions, student federations and parties that have supplied structure, framing and political grammar to ever present general grievances rooted in education quality, public-service strains and youth economic insecurity.

Interestingly, a Fox News investigation has observed that a transnational network of communist and socialist groups, amplified by media outlets linked to Shanghai-based financier Neville Roy Singham, has helped project the French protests internationally.

We investigated and discovered the same pattern in India.

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Fox News (@foxnews) just published a detailed “Who’s Who” of the France protests- mapping the same communist/union network, Breakthrough News, CodePink, and Vijay Prashad’s role, while explicitly linking the unrest to India.

We documented the exact same pattern: how Singham-linked outlets and left student groups amplify as “youth uprisings” from France to India’s streets.

cc: @AsraNomani

🧵 https://t.co/IL8TyPfyAg

[DisInfo Lab @DisinfoLab]

Fox News (@foxnews) just published a detailed “Who’s Who” of the France protests- mapping the same communist/union network, Breakthrough News, CodePink, and Vijay Prashad’s role, while explicitly linking the unrest to India.

We documented the exact same pattern: how Singham-linked outlets and left student groups amplify as “youth uprisings” from France to India’s streets.

cc: @AsraNomani

🧵 https://t.co/IL8TyPfyAg

[DisInfo Lab @DisinfoLab]

THREAD:

Across Europe and beyond, a fresh wave of street mobilizations is being read by some observers as the latest chapter in a resurgent global contest between left and right.

- In France, high-school blockades over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings have drawn in major unions and the far-left La France Insoumise, with marches swelling into broader cost-of-living actions.

- In Spain, tenants’ unions and labor federations (CCOO and UGT) have driven nationwide protests against soaring rents and evictions, culminating in a snap election.

- In Belgium, the socialist and Christian unions have led anti-austerity marches, joined by students protesting education costs in a movement explicitly influenced by events across the border.

- In India, the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party has partnered with left student organizations such as AISA and SFI have found street mobilisation opportunities manufacturing public concerns over electoral rolls and earlier exam irregularities.

What unites these episodes is the organizational weight of left-leaning unions, student federations and parties that have supplied structure, framing and political grammar to ever present general grievances rooted in education quality, public-service strains and youth economic insecurity.

Interestingly, a Fox News investigation has observed that a transnational network of communist and socialist groups, amplified by media outlets linked to Shanghai-based financier Neville Roy Singham, has helped project the French protests internationally.

We investigated and discovered the same pattern in India.

[DisInfo Lab @DisinfoLab]

THREAD:

Across Europe and beyond, a fresh wave of street mobilizations is being read by some observers as the latest chapter in a resurgent global contest between left and right.

- In France, high-school blockades over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings have drawn in major unions and the far-left La France Insoumise, with marches swelling into broader cost-of-living actions.

- In Spain, tenants’ unions and labor federations (CCOO and UGT) have driven nationwide protests against soaring rents and evictions, culminating in a snap election.

- In Belgium, the socialist and Christian unions have led anti-austerity marches, joined by students protesting education costs in a movement explicitly influenced by events across the border.

- In India, the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party has partnered with left student organizations such as AISA and SFI have found street mobilisation opportunities manufacturing public concerns over electoral rolls and earlier exam irregularities.

What unites these episodes is the organizational weight of left-leaning unions, student federations and parties that have supplied structure, framing and political grammar to ever present general grievances rooted in education quality, public-service strains and youth economic insecurity.

Interestingly, a Fox News investigation has observed that a transnational network of communist and socialist groups, amplified by media outlets linked to Shanghai-based financier Neville Roy Singham, has helped project the French protests internationally.

We investigated and discovered the same pattern in India.

[DisInfo Lab @DisinfoLab]

Tricontinental's India staff come from the same organisations: Subin Dennis, former Delhi SFI vice-president who wrote for NewsClick; Nitheesh Narayanan, SFI activist since 2003; P. Ambedkar, SFI and ex-NewsClick; and Abhinav VK, SFI until 2020 and DYFI since 2016.

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This is neither the first nor the last time Singham's money has reached media covering India. The the ED traced Rs 76.84 crore to NewsClick from the Justice and Education Fund and Rs 1.61 crore from The Tricontinental Ltd, entities it linked to Singham.

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The student groups on India's streets belong to these parties: SFI to the CPI(M), AISA to CPI(ML) Liberation and AISF to the CPI. When the CPI(M) Polit Bureau called for countrywide protests on 10 October, the Marxist-Leninist blog In Defense of Communism carried it.

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France and India show the same sequence. Left and communist fronts stage the protests, IAP, SFI UK, HfHR and their partners carry them abroad, communist parties offer solidarity, and Singham-funded outlets present it all to the world as one global uprising.

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THREAD:

Across Europe and beyond, a fresh wave of street mobilizations is being read by some observers as the latest chapter in a resurgent global contest between left and right.

- In France, high-school blockades over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings have drawn in major unions and the far-left La France Insoumise, with marches swelling into broader cost-of-living actions.

- In Spain, tenants’ unions and labor federations (CCOO and UGT) have driven nationwide protests against soaring rents and evictions, culminating in a snap election.

- In Belgium, the socialist and Christian unions have led anti-austerity marches, joined by students protesting education costs in a movement explicitly influenced by events across the border.

- In India, the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party has partnered with left student organizations such as AISA and SFI have found street mobilisation opportunities manufacturing public concerns over electoral rolls and earlier exam irregularities.

What unites these episodes is the organizational weight of left-leaning unions, student federations and parties that have supplied structure, framing and political grammar to ever present general grievances rooted in education quality, public-service strains and youth economic insecurity.

Interestingly, a Fox News investigation has observed that a transnational network of communist and socialist groups, amplified by media outlets linked to Shanghai-based financier Neville Roy Singham, has helped project the French protests internationally.

We investigated and discovered the same pattern in India.

[DisInfo Lab @DisinfoLab]

Tricontinental's India staff come from the same organisations: Subin Dennis, former Delhi SFI vice-president who wrote for NewsClick; Nitheesh Narayanan, SFI activist since 2003; P. Ambedkar, SFI and ex-NewsClick; and Abhinav VK, SFI until 2020 and DYFI since 2016.

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