by William F. Jasper
On March 28, a Saturday, a coalition of leftist, socialist, and communist groups held their third “No Kings” demonstrations, the first two being on June 14 and October 19, 2025. According to the organizers, the latest event brought out more than eight million marchers to demonstrations in over 3,000 cities. Those numbers may be exaggerations, but there is no question that many of the events were sizable, with the largest taking place, as expected, in bastions of far-left activism: New York City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, and the District of Columbia. Who organized these rallies? The No Kings “Mobilize” page tells us, “Indivisible is managing registration, data, and communications with participants for this event, and will be sharing data collected via this form with ACLU and our other NO KINGS partner organizations.”
Indivisible is a coalition of far-left groups, and No Kings is a united front of leftist coalitions, including MoveOn.org and ProsperUS. These coalitions bring together organizations that include the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Party of Socialism and Liberation (PSL), Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), Socialist Alternative, CodePink, Black Lives Matter, The People’s Forum, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ANSWER Coalition, Institute for Policy Studies, Workers World Party, Rise and Resist, People’s Forum, Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), ICE Watch, Refuse Fascism, and many more. Many of these groups are openly and militantly Marxist-Leninist, Maoist, or Trotskyist, with records of violence and instigating riots. FRSO, for instance, in its “call for the 8th Congress” in 2018 stated: “It is our goal to make this country ungovernable.” Its political secretary, Steff Yorek, opened that 8th Congress by declaring, “We are revolutionaries…. We are a group of people who are here because we intend to burn down the house and build a new world upon the ashes of the old.” She also boasted that “Mao and Stalin were both Marxist-Leninists…. I identify as Marxist-Leninist as well.” FRSO boasts that its members were key instigators of the fiery and deadly George Floyd riots in Minneapolis and dozens of other U.S. cities. They succeeded in turning much of Minneapolis into ashes.
Notably partnering with No Kings are left-tilted unions such as the American Federation of Teachers, Service Employees International Union, Communications Workers of America, and American Federation of Government Employees. The No Kings rallies have thus far been “generally peaceful,” although bands of “direct action” extremists among the demonstrators have initiated clashes with law enforcement in multiple cities by throwing rocks, concrete, and bottles at officers, and by attempting to tear down fences protecting federal buildings. Fewer than 100 arrests have been reported nationwide.
The most recent No Kings Day, labeled “May Day Strong” by its organizers, occurred on May 1. Why May 1, a Friday, rather than May 2, a Saturday, like all of the previous No Kings events? Could it be because May 1 is May Day, a day celebrated by all Marxist-Leninists? This May Day, like all May Days since the Bolshevik Revolution, the red flag and hammer and sickle flew in the massive celebration in Moscow’s Red Square. Ditto for Beijing, Havana, and Pyongyang. May Day was adopted by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik regime, and was spread worldwide by his Comintern (Communist International). While most “progressives” marching in the No Kings events probably have no clue about this May Day connection, the communist and socialist organizations spearheading the operation definitely understand, and they heralded it in their newspapers and on their websites. Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announced at the March 28 No Kings rally in St. Paul, Minnesota, that the May 1 action would be a “tactical escalation” demanding “no work, no school, no shopping.” “The goal,” said the People’s World website of the CPUSA, was to “shut down the engines of profit that sustain the current administration’s agenda.”
Antifa and Marxist Tactics
Which brings us to Antifa. On September 22, 2025, President Donald Trump issued an executive order designating Antifa as a terrorist organization. On October 8, 2025, he hosted an Antifa roundtable at the White House featuring more than a dozen journalists and influencers who have been reporting on Antifa for years. Some of them have suffered physical injuries from Antifa attacks. The roundtable participants included Brandi Kruse, Andy Ngo, Katie Daviscourt, Seamus Bruner, Jack Posobiec, and Nick Shirley. As a follow-up, the Trump administration has announced an international counterterrorism Antifa summit for June or July. Details about where it will be held and who will be invited have not yet been released. Many in the media and the Democratic Party leadership still act as if Antifa is a figment of right-wing imagination. Reuters, in a March 31 report on the planned summit, said of Antifa: “Counterterrorism experts argue it does not exist as an organized entity, though people claiming affinity to antifa have been involved in armed attacks in the U.S.” Yes, Antifa most certainly exists, as countless videos of their violent attacks and testimonies of their victims prove. In March of this year, eight Antifa defendants were convicted of attempted murder and terrorism in the July 4, 2025 ambush at the Prairieland ICE Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, in which an Alvarado police officer, Lieutenant Thomas Gross, was shot in the neck.
It is standard operational procedure within terrorist organizations for members to keep secret their networks and illegal violent activities. They are conspirators who work secretly, in the underground, as Lenin himself, their idol, directed. In one of his best-known works, What Is to Be Done?, Lenin confirmed with his words what was obvious from his deeds: “According to its form a strong revolutionary organization may also be described as a conspirative organization … and we must have the utmost conspiracy for an organization of that kind. Secrecy is such a necessary condition … that all other conditions (number, and selection of members, functions, etc.) must all be subordinated to it.”
In “On the Tactics of the Comintern,” Lenin instructed his fellow conspirators at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International (1922) on the necessity of using “united front” coalitions to bring a wide swath of people into the communist movement. “One of the most important tasks of the Communist parties is to organise resistance against international fascism,” Lenin declared. “They must go at the head of the entire working class in struggle against the fascist gangs and energetically utilise, in this arena as well, the tactic of united front, in which it is indispensable to employ underground methods of organisation.” (Italics in original.)
Now you see where the Antifa apparatchiks, who claim to be “antifascist,” draw their inspiration. Like Lenin, they call all who oppose them fascists. It is a smear tactic that virtually all the leftists (communists, socialists, “progressives,” etc.) have adopted. No Kings is the ultimate “united front” — an omnium-gatherum of folks who are anti-ICE, anti-police, anti-Iran War, anti-capitalism, anti-Christian, anti-fossil fuel, anti-Trump, pro-Cuba, pro-China, pro-Hamas, pro-open borders, pro-welfare, pro-socialism, pro-LGBTQ “rights,” pro-abortion, etc. There is a hobby horse there to attract every grievance lobby. Again, they draw their direction from Lenin, who wrote in 1922, “Without an alliance with non-Communists in the most diverse spheres of activity there can be no question of any successful communist construction.” The hardcore Marxist-Leninists comprise only a small fraction of the marching mobs, but they provide the steering hands. As we have pointed out many times over the years, it is clear from the signage at these events who the leading cadres are. The videos and photos of the events prominently display the pre-printed signs handed out by FRSO, Indivisible, CPUSA, ANSWER, DSA, CodePink, PSL, RCP, People’s Forum, and other staunch leftist and Marxist-Leninist groups. As we have repeatedly noted, the legacy media can be depended on to completely ignore these obvious connections, even when they are pointed out to them and when the evidence is staring them in the face in their own photos and newscast videos. At the same time, the same “journalists” will strain to find a single individual (probably an agent provocateur) at a MAGA gathering whom they can cite as a “neo-Nazi” or “white nationalist” to discredit the conservative event.
Billionaire Donors and the CCP Connection
The same “mainstream” media will also dependably spike any mention of the established fact that many of the No Kings organizations receive massive Dark Money funding from the likes of Forward US (also styled FWD.us), Arabella Advisors, and Tides Advocacy. Chief funders of FWD.us are billionaires such as Meta/Facebook’s Mark and Priscilla Zuckerberg, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, Netflix co-CEO Reed Hastings, and former Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt. In other words, they are being funded by the billionaires they claim — by their chants, signs, and banners — to be adamantly opposing.
Of particular national-security interest is the “philanthropy” of billionaire tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, the husband of CodePink founder Jodie Evans. Singham has been a Marxist-Leninist-Maoist revolutionary since at least 1972, when he joined the Detroit-based League of Revolutionary Black Workers. After selling his IT consulting company in 2017, he moved to China, where he owns or co-owns several companies that do business with China’s state-owned enterprises. He has poured millions of dollars into organizations and media groups worldwide that promote the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) line on multiple issues. In the United States, he has been a prominent financial backer of CodePink, People’s Forum, the Party of Socialism and Liberation, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, ANSWER Coalition, and many other organizations in the socialist-communist orbit. His wife, Jodie Evans, claims that the totalitarian CCP regime is “a defender of the oppressed,” and works with the CCP-controlled China Academy to recruit Americans for China tours that glorify Mao’s Long March and the CCP. According to her, China is a “wonderland of socialist expression.” She has a new book coming out this July entitled China Is Not Our Enemy. CodePink, which once upon a time criticized China’s atrocious human-rights abuses, now slavishly praises Xi Jinping’s prison state.
Singham’s involvement with China goes back at least a quarter of a century, to 2001, when he began working as a consultant for Huawei, a tech giant in China’s CCP-controlled military-industrial complex. Finally, after all these years, the U.S. government is investigating Singham. Last September, the House Oversight Committee and House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed records of the Singham-funded People’s Forum, a tax-exempt nongovernmental organization, and requested that the Treasury Department investigate freezing his assets or imposing sanctions due to his CCP ties and failure to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. On January 7 of this year, the House Oversight Committee voted on a motion by U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) to subpoena Comrade Singham for the subversive activities and groups he has been funding.