A Fox News digital investigation claims to have uncovered links between the riots in France and youth protests in India demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, according to TOI.
According to the investigation by senior editor Asra Nomani, 101 organizations across nine countries form a “red-green protest ecosystem”,referring to Islamist and communist groups, that are coordinating, organizing, or amplifying demonstrations across Europe within an expanding protest ecosystem.
Her report, titled “Global Chaos Inc Grows to 101 Groups”, flags the France-based group Indian Alliance Paris (IAP) for “connecting French and Indian protest messaging” and notes that it is “partnered with the People’s Forum in Manhattan”.
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The report also highlights how the transnational anti-capitalist organization Progressive International (PI) explicitly grouped the ongoing demonstrations in France, Spain, India, and Albania in an October 16 briefing on its website, asking whether the “new rebellions can acquire the organised power to change the conditions that produced them?”. PI stated, “These are the forces that Progressive International is working to support and connect.”
Additionally, Nomani’s report claims that “The European unrest is also receiving sympathetic amplification from a network of pro-communist organisations, including BreakThrough News, CODEPINK and Party for Socialism and Liberation, funded and supported by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon who lives in Shanghai.”
In an October 14 interview with BreakThrough News, Singham’s wife and CODEPINK co-founder Jodie Evans stated: “I want people to look at France, Spain, and India and just say, ‘Where are we? Why are we not in the streets?"
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Separately, the X account DisinfoLab posted that Paris-based journalist and IAP secretary Joy Banerjee is a former CGT union delegate with ties to the French Communist Party.
(With inputs from TOI)