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Teachers plan May Day walkouts nationwide, igniting debate
‘Outnumbered’ discusses teachers planning May Day walkouts nationwide, sparking a debate about the impact on students. The panel debates the political motivations behind protests against President Donald Trump’s policies, and the implications for declining student academic performance in cities like Chicago.
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FIRST AT FOX: Some 600 groups, including hard-line communists and groups affiliated with the Democratic Party, are mobilizing all over the country today to demonstrate for May Day, socialism’s high holy day.
A Fox News Digital investigation has identified a sprawling «red-blue» network with combined annual revenue of about $2 billion organizing some 3,000 protests and events and advancing what critics describe as an anti-American agenda. They have called for Americans to skip work, school and shopping.
At the center of the May Day mobilization, which has expanded from earlier indications, is a network of communist, socialist, Marxist and other far-left organizations, led by chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America and a network of groups – including the People’s Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, ANSWER Coalition and Code Pink – funded by an American-born tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, based in Shanghai, promoting the propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party.
The Communist Party of the USA has rallied workers to «rise against MAGA on May Day,» promoting leaflets by the «People’s World,» its Marxist-Leninist publication. The Revolutionary Communist Party has put out a call to dismantle the «capitalist-imperialist system.» The Maoist Communist Union has summoned members to join the «Anti-Imperialist Contingent» at the New York City protests.
The deeper concern, critics say, is that the pro-communist and pro-socialist network, symbolized by the color of red, is promoting May Day events with traditionally blue organizations that make up the Democratic Party network, including nonprofits Indivisible, MoveOn.org and the American Federation of Teachers, as well as at least 13 state and local chapters of the Democratic National Committee, including the California Democratic Party.
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The California Democratic Party is using the pro-Democratic tech platform, Mobilize.us, to promote «Workers over Billionaires May Day rally» protests, like at the corner of Monroe Street and Highway 11 in Indio, Calif. In its publicity material, the California Democratic Party notes it’s «the largest state party in the nation with more than 10 million members.»
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 on the official list of organizers for a coalition, «May Day Strong,» promoted online.
In Ohio, the Licking County Democrats organization is hosting a «May Day Strong» protest at the courthouse in Newark, promoting the national event’s official mantra: «No Work No School No Shopping.» The groups didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Meanwhile, local chapters of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, an openly communist group in the Singham network, organized «Art Build» projects across the country, including in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, to build May Day signs at its «Liberation Centers,» located in about 25 metropolitan U.S. cities. Members shuttled inside, painting banners and readying their protest gear.
Leaders at the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s Chicago «Liberation Center» post anti-ICE signs on its window, seen on Jan. 29, 2026, promoting student walkouts and the message, «Chicago Resists.» It later hosts an «Art Build» sessions to support teacher and student walkouts for May Day 2026. (Kamil Krzaczynski for Fox News Digital)
«The increasing willingness of mainstream Democrats to align with extremist socialist groups is a major factor in why the Democratic Party is losing the center more and more, and why so many lifelong Democrats find themselves feeling politically homeless,» Democratic strategist Melissa DeRosa told Fox News Digital.
«May Day has a proud history of honoring workers,» she said, «but too many Democratic organizations have allowed that tradition to be hijacked by the activist fringe — including groups aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America, pushing a fantasy agenda that has failed everywhere it has been tried.»
«The increasing willingness of mainstream Democrats to align with extremist socialist groups is a major factor in why the Democratic Party is losing the center more and more, and why so many lifelong Democrats find themselves feeling politically homeless.»
Together, political analysts say the new May Day network shows how a once-fringe ideological coalition has moved into the bloodstream of Democratic-aligned organizing — linking communist groups, socialist chapters, anti-Israel activists, labor unions, immigration groups, climate organizations and Democratic Party affiliates in a national protest campaign critics say is less about worker solidarity than about advancing a radical political agenda.
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On the eve of May Day, organizers sent out a professionally composed media advisory, with the email’s metadata directing readers to reply to a name associated with public relations for a Chicago teachers’ union. (Fox News Digital)
In a reflection of the coordination of the red-blue alliance, the «May Day Strong» coalition issued a press release at 4:39 p.m. on Thursday with the email’s metadata identifying the sender as Adolfo Flores, a public relations expert at On Point, a media relations firm that has done public relations for the Illinois Federation of Teachers, which works closely with the Democratic Party. Flores didn’t return a request for comment.
In his press release, Flores wrote, organizers say more than «3,000 May Day events» nationwide will mobilize workers and students under the banner «Workers Over Billionaires,» framing the protests as a response to what they call an «authoritarian billionaire takeover of government.» The advisory highlights large-scale actions, including «more than 100,000 students expected to walk out» and coordinated efforts in multiple cities urging «No Work, No School, No Shopping,» with some leaders stating «we can and will shut it down to secure prosperity for all working people.»
The coalition’s core demands – «Tax the rich,» «No ICE. No War,» and «Expand Democracy, not corporate power» – are paired with broader claims that the system is «rigged» by elites, that policies are «attacking our neighbors» and «turning ICE loose on our neighborhoods» and that current leadership is «seeking to end democracy as we know it,» according to the press release.
Across statements, participants, including traditionally Democratic-aligned leaders from the Illinois Federation of Teachers and Chicago Teachers Union, the National Education Association, the AFL-CIO, the American Federation of Teachers, 50501 and the United Auto Workers, among others, emphasize mass mobilization and collective action, arguing «we are organizing… to demand change» and that «real change happens when working people act together.»
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General strike literature is displayed on a table during a No Kings protest at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minnesota, on March 29, 2026. Protesters gathered with flags from various organizations, including the Freedom Road Socialist Organization. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
The so-called «red-blue» alliance exposes a growing challenge inside Democratic politics, political experts say, as the Democratic Party’s activist infrastructure increasingly overlaps with groups and influencers, like controversial Democratic Socialists of America influencer Hasan Piker, as they echo anti-American rhetoric and propaganda narratives promoted by U.S. adversaries, including China.
In the 600 estimated total, Indivisible, one of the largest Democratic Party-aligned grassroots networks in the country, has at least 200 chapters nationwide supporting May Day events, from Yorktown, N.Y., to Tempe, Ariz., appearing alongside about 80 chapters of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Indivisible has received millions of dollars in funding over the years from billionaire George Soros’ philanthropy network, and it has led the organizing for three «No Kings» protests produced after Trump’s inauguration to protest his administration. Many of the groups involved in «No Kings» protests are organizing the May Day events, reflecting the shared ecosystem of anti-Trump rhetoric built around this professional protest infrastructure.
Law enforcement officials said alleged would-be assassin Cole Allen attended a «No Kings» protest in Los Angeles, according to his family, before attempting to kill Trump the night of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner this past weekend. His manifesto parroted the precise language that the groups rallying for May Day have alleged against Trump, calling him a «pedophile,» «traitor» and «rapist,» among other unsubstantiated aspersions.
Allen’s hometown of Torrance, Calif., where he lived with his parents before boarding an Amtrak to allegedly kill Trump and cabinet members, is hosting a May Day protest Friday evening at the corner of Hawthorne Boulevard and Sepulveda Boulevard, where local activists have regularly held «No Kings» protests.
In its promo, the Torrance protest organizers noted: «A core principle behind all our events is a commitment to nonviolent action.»
However, they wrote more prominently: «Because when the billionaires break every rule, it’s going to take more than a rally to stop them.»
Among the strongest forces behind the protest ecosystem, fusing increasingly with Democratic groups, is the network tied to Singham, the American-born tech tycoon living in Shanghai. A Fox News Digital investigation found that Singham pumped an estimated $278 million into the constellation of groups driving divisive street mobilizations in the U.S., like the May Day protests. BreakThrough News, a media outlet in the Singham-funded network, regularly parrots language the tycoon delivered at a conference in Shanghai last fall, expressing support for the Marxist «new world order» of the Chinese Communist Party and decrying the «fascism» of the U.S.
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For some political analysts in the Democratic center, the alliance with socialists represents an ill-fated quest to win over working people.
«The Democratic Party used to speak the language of work, wages, dignity, family, safety and upward mobility,» said Derosa, the Democratic strategist. «Now it’s morphing into a pamphlet for the Democratic Socialists of America: slogans instead of policy, disruption instead of leadership and the demonization of free enterprise instead of a serious plan to help working families get ahead.»
«That is not how you build a majority. That is how you turn a governing party into a protest movement — and a losing one,» she said.
Undeterred, late Thursday afternoon, the Party for Socialism and Liberation’s chapter in North Carolina reminded members to meet at «the Quad» on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the May Day protests, pressing the narrative, «We are many. They are few.»
Fox News Digital’s Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.
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La policía turca disparó gases y arrestó a cientos de personas en las manifestaciones del 1 de Mayo en Estambul
La policía turca disparó gases lacrimógenos y arrestó el viernes a cientos de personas que participaban en las manifestaciones del Primero de Mayo en Estambul, mientras miles de personas se movilizaban en todo el país.
Según la Asociación de Abogados CHD, al menos 370 personas fueron arrestadas en Estambul, donde la policía lanzó gases lacrimógenos desde vehículos antidisturbios contra la multitud, según observaron periodistas de AFP.
Imágenes emitidas por el canal de oposición HALK TV también mostraron al presidente del Partido de los Trabajadores Turcos, Erkan Bas, rociado con gas pimienta.
“Los que están en el poder ya hablan los 365 días del año, así que dejemos que los trabajadores hablen de las dificultades que enfrentan al menos un día al año”, declaró.
Dos grupos fueron señalados especialmente en la parte europea de la ciudad tras anunciar su intención de marchar hacia la plaza Taksim —escenario de varias protestas antigubernamentales en el pasado—, que fue acordonada por la policía durante la noche.
Un dirigente sindical, Basaran Aksu, fue arrestado justo después de haber denunciado el bloqueo de Taksim.
«No se puede cerrar una plaza a los trabajadores de Turquía. Todo el mundo usa Taksim, para ceremonias oficiales, para celebraciones. Solo los obreros, los trabajadores, los pobres encuentran la plaza cerrada», exclamó indignado.
El Primero de Mayo, fecha que celebra a los trabajadores y a la clase obrera, conlleva cada año un importante despliegue policial en Turquía, con el cierre de una amplia zona en el centro de Estambul, alrededor de la plaza Taksim.
El año pasado, las protestas se trasladaron al barrio de Kadikoy y más de 400 personas fueron arrestadas.
El número de detenciones este año parecía acercarse a esa cifra.
El grupo de abogados CHD, presente en las manifestaciones, publicó en X que, a las 11:00 GMT, “según nuestra información, el número de personas detenidas asciende a 370”.
El viernes, se observó un gran despliegue policial, muchos de ellos con equipo antidisturbios, y barricadas metálicas que dificultaban el acceso a los barrios céntricos de Estambul.
En el distrito de Mecidiyekoy, la AFP observó a la policía utilizando gases lacrimógenos contra la multitud, que incluía a miembros del partido marxista HKP, quienes intentaban abrirse paso coreando “Asesino de EEUU, cómplice del AKP (partido gobernante de Turquía)”.
La policía, que rodeaba el barrio de Besiktas, intervino —en ocasiones con violencia— cada vez que los manifestantes coreaban consignas. La AFP vio a varios manifestantes ser arrojados al suelo.
Sindicatos y asociaciones de la sociedad civil habían convocado las manifestaciones del 1 de mayo bajo el lema “Pan. Paz. Libertad”.
La inflación en Turquía se sitúa oficialmente en el 30%, pero según estimaciones independientes, ronda el 40%.
En Ankara, cerca de 100 mineros del carbón que habían protagonizado una huelga de hambre de nueve días para exigir el pago de salarios atrasados fueron aclamados al unirse a la marcha del Primero de Mayo, que fue notablemente numerosa, con una gran participación juvenil y una importante presencia policial, según informó un periodista de la AFP.
A principios de esta semana, las autoridades turcas emitieron órdenes de arresto y registro contra 62 personas, de las cuales consideraron que 46 —entre ellas periodistas, sindicalistas y figuras de la oposición— eran “probables de llevar a cabo ataques”.
(Con información de AFP)
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With President Donald Trump «hired» by the American people for a second term, Amazon — which now owns production rights to NBC’s «The Apprentice» — is looking for a new host to potentially reboot the once No. 1-rated television program, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Trump leveraged decades of media coverage as a New York mogul amid the ups and downs of the 1980s and 1990s into a smash-hit program that premiered in 2004, following several wannabe business executives through a several-week «job interview» to work for the Trump Organization.
Fifteen seasons and a presidency-compelled hiatus later, Amazon is reportedly considering Trump Organization Executive Vice President Donald Trump Jr. for the role, as the eldest son has served as a frequent stand-in «boardroom adviser» for Trump executives Carolyn Kepcher and George Ross.
Trump addressed rumors of a reboot on Thursday, telling Fox News’ Peter Doocy that his son is a «good guy» and would «probably be good» in the role.
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Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. during the season finale of «The Celebrity Apprentice» on May 10, 2009, in New York City. (Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)
«He’s got a little charisma going. You need a little charisma for that sucker. So, we’ll see what happens,» Trump said.
Several people familiar with the discussions told The Wall Street Journal that Amazon executives have internally discussed casting Trump Jr. as a host for an «Apprentice» reboot if they do indeed launch the project.
The Journal reported Amazon has not yet approached Trump Sr., Trump Jr. or any Trump family members, but that, instead of NBC, it would air the show on Amazon Prime.
A source close to Trump Jr. told Fox News Digital on Thursday that the Journal report was indeed the first time the 48-year-old father of five had heard his name was in the pot.
Fox News Digital also reached out to the Trump Organization for comment, as well as Amazon and Amazon’s production company.
An Amazon spokesperson told the Journal that the Jeff Bezos-led company previously acquired MGM, which itself bought a majority stake in reality-show impresario Mark Burnett’s company several years earlier.
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Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump attend the season finale of «The Celebrity Apprentice» in New York City on May 10, 2009. (Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)
Burnett has launched several reality shows, including «The Apprentice» and CBS-aired contests «The Amazing Race» and «Survivor,» with the latter now in its 50th season. The credits for «The Apprentice» list Trump Sr. as executive producer.
A reboot would be Amazon’s second foray into Trumpworld in recent months, as it recently debuted a $40 million biopic of first lady Melania Trump that drew praise from supporters and mockery from critics like ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel.
«Melania» was directed by Brett Ratner of «Rush Hour» fame, as Trump reportedly pressed Paramount Pictures to revive the Jackie Chan-Chris Tucker series and put Ratner back at the helm, according to CNBC, which further reported the original New Line Cinema films are now subject to a distribution pact between Paramount and New Line parent Warner Bros.
Trump Sr. regularly touted his «Apprentice» success throughout his political tenure, once telling the National Prayer Breakfast that attendees should «pray» for former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger after the «Terminator» took over the show and oversaw what the president called a ratings collapse.
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Donald Trump, John Rich and Melania Trump attend «The Celebrity Apprentice» Season 4 finale at Trump SoHo in New York City on May 22, 2011. (Jim Spellman/WireImage)
Schwarzenegger, the most recent Republican to serve as governor in Sacramento, occasionally spars with Trump, as he is seen as less bombastic and more politically moderate than the president.
«Hey Donald, I have a great idea,» Schwarzenegger shot back at Trump in an X video at the time.
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«Why don’t we switch jobs — you take over TV — since you’re such an expert in ratings, and I take over your job so that people can finally sleep comfortable again — hmm?» the Austria native, who voted for then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich in 2016, quipped.
Fox News Digital reached out to NBCUniversal for additional comment on the potential resurrection of their onetime series. Neither Amazon nor the Trump Organization responded by publication time.
Fox News Digital’s Janelle Ash contributed to this report.
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North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has publicly praised soldiers who killed themselves rather than be captured while fighting Ukrainian forces in Kursk region, offering the clearest confirmation yet of what officials and intelligence agencies have long described as one of Pyongyang’s most extreme battlefield policies.
In remarks published Monday by North Korean state media KCNA and first reported by Reuters, Kim honored troops who «unhesitatingly chose the path of self-destruction and suicide» rather than surrender, as he addressed Russian officials and bereaved families during a memorial ceremony for North Korean soldiers killed in combat.
«It is not only the heroes who unhesitatingly chose the path of self-destruction and suicide to defend great honor, but also those who fell while charging at the forefront of assault battles,» Kim said.
The comments mark the first time Kim has directly acknowledged the lengths North Korean troops fighting for Russia have gone to in attempts to avoid capture by Ukrainian forces.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a photo session with officers and soldiers who participated in the 90th founding anniversary of the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army in North Korea on April 27, 2022. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service)
North Korea deployed an estimated 14,000 troops to Russia’s western Kursk region to support Moscow’s war effort, according to South Korean, Ukrainian and Western officials cited by Reuters. Those same officials say the forces suffered staggering losses, with more than 6,000 North Korean soldiers believed killed in some of the war’s most intense fighting.
For months, intelligence reports, battlefield evidence and defector testimony have pointed to a grim directive: North Korean troops were expected to detonate grenades or otherwise take their own lives rather than risk capture.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un pose for a photo during a signing ceremony following bilateral talks in Pyongyang, North Korea, June 19, 2024. (Sputnik/Kristina Kormilitsyna/Kremlin via REUTERS)
That policy appears to have extended even to the few who survived. According to The Guardian, two North Korean soldiers captured by Ukrainian forces and now held as prisoners of war in Kyiv both reportedly attempted to blow themselves up but were unable to do so because of severe injuries. One of the captured soldiers has reportedly expressed guilt over failing to carry out those orders.
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North Korean troops train with Russian instructors to clear mines in the heavily contaminated Kursk region, according to Russian Defense Ministry footage. (East to West News Agency)
Kim’s latest speech appears to transform those reports from battlefield allegations into publicly praised state doctrine.
«Those who writhed in frustration at failing to fulfill their duty as soldiers rather than suffering the agony of their bodies being torn apart by bullets and shells — these too can be called the party’s loyal warriors and patriots,» Kim added.
The statement underscores the ideological intensity imposed on North Korean forces, whose loyalty to the regime appears to extend beyond combat to self-destruction.
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North Korean troops sweep minefields left behind in the Kursk region after months of fighting. (East to West News Agency)
The revelation also highlights the deepening military relationship between Pyongyang and Moscow.
According to South Korean intelligence assessments, North Korea has provided not only troops but also munitions to Russia, while receiving economic aid and military technology in return.
Reuters contributed to this report.
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