Some 600 groups with a combined $2 billion in annual revenue are behind the wave of May Day demonstrations hitting the country Friday, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. They’re calling on workers, students, and shoppers to stay home.
The network spans openly communist organizations all the way to mainstream Democratic Party chapters, and organizers say roughly 3,000 protests and events are scheduled nationwide.
Leading the mobilization is a bloc of communist, socialist, and Marxist groups, including chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America. Also central to the effort are groups linked to Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech executive who lives in Shanghai. Critics have accused Singham of funneling money to organizations that push Chinese Communist Party talking points. His network includes the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition, and Code Pink.
The Communist Party USA told members to rise against “MAGA on May Day,” circulating the message through its Marxist-Leninist paper. The Maoist Communist Union urged its members to join an anti-imperialist contingent at New York City events. The group calling itself the Revolutionary Communist Party issued a call to bring down the capitalist system entirely.
That’s the fringe end of the coalition. On the other end sit Democratic Party organizations that would normally distance themselves from such company.
At least 13 state and local Democratic Party chapters signed on as organizers for May Day events alongside the communist groups. That list includes the California Democratic Party, which calls itself the largest state party in the nation with more than 10 million members. The state party is using the Mobilize.us platform to promote Workers over Billionaires rallies across California.
The Ohio Democratic Party Progressive Caucus, North Carolina’s Young Democrats of Moore County, Young Democrats of Wisconsin, and the Yuba County Democratic Central Committee are all listed as co-organizers for a coalition called May Day Strong. Its motto: No Work, No School, No Shopping.
Indivisible, MoveOn.org, and the American Federation of Teachers are also taking part.
Thursday evening, Party for Socialism and Liberation chapters opened what they call Liberation Centers in about 25 U.S. cities. Members showed up to paint banners and cut signs ahead of Friday’s demonstrations. Chapters in Washington, D.C., and Chicago were photographed posting anti-ICE messaging on their windows before the events even started.
