Student protests that erupted across France this month have merged into a broader nationwide revolt, and a new investigation has traced the organizational scaffolding behind it to a transnational web of communist parties, labor unions, and international activist groups.
A Fox News Digital investigation identified 54 organizations tied to France’s October student protests and the wider network supporting them, including communist parties, revolutionary socialist groups, labor unions, environmental activists, Muslim student advocates, Palestinian-solidarity organizations and international media outlets.
Of those 54 groups, only 16 — roughly one in three — are student or youth organizations, among them communist youth groups and a Muslim student association. The remaining 38 are adult-led communist groups, labor unions, political parties, revolutionary-left organizations, advocacy outfits and international propaganda outlets.
The investigation names Gilets jaunes, the
