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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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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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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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The People's Forum and CodePink, whose co-founder Jodie Evans is Singham's wife, also signed the 2024 Savera declaration on 'Hindu supremacy', which took the 'Hindu supremacy' framing used against India into American civil rights circles.
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In July 2026 the US House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed BreakThrough News and two other Singham-funded fronts, the People's Forum and Tricontinental, in a probe of more than $39M that it advances Chinese Communist Party-aligned interests.
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When NewsClick was raided in 2023, the statement backing it was signed by people from the People's Forum, CodePink, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, Tricontinental and eight from BreakThrough News, the same Singham-funded network now covering India's protests.
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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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On 7 October, BT News quoted Brittas calling the CEC protests a 'historical movement to save democracy' and Neha Bora vowing to continue until the CEC was removed. On September 1, it carried the UN CERD findings against India that the MEA had rejected.
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Its BT Live of 23 July hosted CPI(M) MP John Brittas on the CJP sit-in. On 30 July it ran 'India's Cockroach Rebellion' by Tricontinental's Atul Chandra, and on 29 August it covered SFI, AISF and AISA protests, quoting the CPI(M) and Vijay Prashad.
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BreakThrough News received over $1.1M between 2021-2023. Funded via Neville Roy Singham-linked donor funds, the 501(c)(3) outlet faces ongoing congressional scrutiny over its financial network and pro-China coverage.
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To reach a global audience these groups have relied on BreakThrough News, a New York outlet whose parent company, BT Media. Since July 2026, it has covered India's left protests repeatedly, often quoting & promoting the CPI(M), AISA and SFI while targeting the Indian government.
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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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All these left groups are legitimising the on-ground left & communist protests do not work in isolation. IAP, HfHR, IAMC and SASG all endorsed Dismantling Global Hindutva in 2021. IAP, IAMC and HfHR endorsed the EU-India People's Roadmap among other anti-India campaigns.
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The faces of the protests were then given platforms abroad. On Aug 5, 2026 IAMC held a congressional briefing on 'India's Crackdown on the Student Movement' with AISA's N. Sai Balaji, and on Aug 9, 2026, HfHR hosted AISA president Neha Bora alongside Arundhati Roy.
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HfHR, along with various organisations including The Azadi Project, Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA), also organised protests against the Indian government across multiple cities in the US including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco
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