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Behind France’s student riots: Communists, unions and a global propaganda network

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When young adults stormed France’s Bastille on Thursday, a little-known media outlet called BreakThrough News sent followers a «BREAKING» alert: «French students flood Bastille Square in Paris.»

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But that isn’t the full story.

A Fox News Digital investigation has found that a transnational network of far-left communist and socialist organizations is seizing on France’s fiery student protests to advance a wider political and ideological agenda, using tactics deployed in the United States over the past decade to amplify unrest, deepen divisions and project an image of chaos.

Earlier in the week, BreakThrough News splashed another headline across the front of its website: «French students shut down schools in historic strike against austerity,» mobilizing «with support from unions and progressive forces.»

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But those «progressive forces» aren’t limited to students demanding education reform as part of their «Lycéenne Mobilisation,» or high school student mobilization.

Protestors gather around the Monument à la République in Place de la République in Paris on Oct. 4, 2026, during nationwide demonstrations against an overcrowded, ill-equipped and understaffed education system. A masked protestor holds a red flag of the Soviet Union with the communist hammer and sickle. (Veronique de Viguerie/Getty Images)

Only 1 of 3 is a Student or Youth Group

From France to the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, Greece and India, adults with deep pockets are tapping France’s school protests and turning a domestic education dispute into a platform for broader political and ideological confrontation. BreakThrough News is a pro-communist propaganda outlet based in New York City, funded by an American-born, Shanghai-based communist tech tycoon, Neville Roy Singham, who has financed a network of communist and far-left groups in the U.S. that have capitalized on grievances to stoke similar street unrest for almost a decade.

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A Fox News Digital investigation traces how a movement that the media is mostly framing as students protesting deteriorating school conditions is actually part of an extensive infrastructure of unions, communist activists, far-left political parties and international media organizations that are organizing demonstrations, calling strikes, mobilizing supporters and broadcasting the unrest around the world with «BREAKING» alerts.

In a digital analysis of scores of news articles, social media posts and public statements, Fox News Digital has identified 50 organizations in the French student protest movement and its wider network of supporters and international amplifiers, revealing an activist ecosystem extending far beyond the students who launched the demonstrations.

Of the network of 50 groups, 15 are student or youth groups, including several communist youth movements and a Muslim student association.

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The remaining 35 adult groups include a dozen labor unions; eight communist or socialist organizations; five groups spanning other issues from taxes to parental advocacy, environmental activism, economic justice, international media and diaspora organizing; five civil-rights or human-rights groups; four political parties, including La France Insoumise, or France Unbowed, and the French Communist Party; one Palestinian advocacy group that complete the «red-green» alliance of leftists with Muslims.

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Protesters march toward the Place de la Bastille in Paris.

Smoke billows around protesters as they march toward the Place de la Bastille in Paris on Oct. 8, 2026, as part of a nationwide protest movement over learning conditions. The orange vest carries the acronym «CGT» for the Confédération générale du travail, a trade union. Protestors carry a purple flag of La France insoumise, a political party, and a red flag of Fédération Syndicale Étudiante, a student group. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Red-Green Ecosystem’ of Socialists and Islamists

The network stretches from French classrooms and labor federations to communist organizations in Greece and Britain and international socialist media outlets, such as BreakThrough News, demonstrating how a domestic education dispute has attracted organizations advancing broader political agendas involving capitalism, «austerity,» policing, military spending and Israel.

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«What we’re seeing here is the same Red-Green ecosystem that disrupts infrastructure choke holds in our country such as the Brooklyn Bridge, college campuses and congressional hearings,» Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Fox News Digital. «And in the case of BreakThrough News, the same sugar daddy — Neville Roy Singham.»

The case offers a revealing look at the ambitions of France’s revolutionary left. Even in a country with powerful labor unions, an established Communist Party, a substantial parliamentary left and a long tradition of street protest, these organizations are demanding political and economic changes that go well beyond the existing left-wing establishment.

As one far-left environmental group, Les Soulèvements de la Terre, or «Earth Uprisings,» declared in the midst of the riots, «Glory to the rebellious high school students.»

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The statement invoked a call for broader political subversion: «Pour un soulèvement antifasciste» – «For an antifascist uprising.»

The network’s amplification of France’s protests illustrates how a local confrontation can be presented to international audiences as part of a broader struggle against Western governments and institutions.

«The communist Red and the Islamist Greens have nothing in common but a common enemy, the Judeo-Christian, capitalist, free West, led by the U.S.,» Gonzalez said. «Their goal is to dismantle us.»

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The situation in France is potentially even more dangerous, according to Gonzalez, who cited the European nation’s well-established and active communist parties and a history of government changing by street violence. He noted the fall of the Fourth Republic in 1958 after large protests over Algeria, and that the government nearly fell in 1968 over student protests.

«And of course, there was the blood-drenched violence of the 1789 French Revolution,» Gonzalez added.

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High school students gather at Place de la Bastille in Paris, one waving an LFI flag.

High school students gather at Place de la Bastille in Paris on Oct. 8, 2026, with one waving a flag of the La France Insoumise political party, known by its acronym LFI. (Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images)

‘Right to Revolt’

Since late September, politicians from the far-left political party, La France insoumise, were seen working with students organizing blockades in Seine-Saint-Denis, a low-income suburb northeast of Paris. French-Moroccan journalist Nora Bussigny wrote that «many elected officials» from La France Insoumise «have indeed worked to co-opt the student protests, at the risk of seeing them spiral out of control: by fanning the flames, discrediting institutions like the police, and legitimizing the principle of political violence.»

Soon after, a wide network of far-left groups put out the call for tens of thousands of secondary school students and supporters to march through Paris on Oct. 6, while demonstrations spread across France.

Student organizations in the network of 50 include the Union Syndicale Lycéenne, or High School Students’ Union; Union Étudiante, or Student Union; Fédération des Associations Générales Étudiantes, or Federation of General Student Associations; and Union Nationale des Étudiants de France, or National Union of Students of France, helped mobilize students for the Oct. 6 demonstrations.

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Other student organizations, including Solidaires Étudiantes, or Solidaires Students, have joined the broader campaign.

The organizational machinery supporting the mobilization extends beyond the teenagers who first took to the streets. National labor federations and professional education unions have called on adult workers to join the mobilization, bringing the institutional reach of organized labor into the student movement.

The Confédération nationale du travail, or National Confederation of Labour, declared: «The demands of high school students are also ours. They are right to revolt.»

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The adult-led labor organizations in the network of 50 include: the Confédération générale du travail, or General Confederation of Labour; Force Ouvrière, or Workers’ Force; and Union nationale des syndicats autonomes, or National Union of Autonomous Trade Unions.

Several education-sector unions called for a strike and demonstration in support of the high school movement.

The organizations include the CFDT Public Education, Training and Research; CGT Éduc’action; the National Federation of Education, Culture and Vocational Training–Workers’ Force; SUD Éducation; and Syndicat National des Enseignements de Second Degré, the National Union of Secondary Education, affiliated with the Unitary Trade Union Federation.

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The support extends beyond teachers and students into a wider collection of organizations, including parents’ associations, civil-rights groups, antiracist organizations and political movements.

Among them are the Fédération des Conseils de Parents d’Élèves, or Federation of Parents’ Councils; Ligue des Droits de l’Homme, or Human Rights League; Mouvement Contre le Racisme et Pour L’amitié entre Les Peuples, or Movement Against Racism and for Friendship Between Peoples; and SOS Racisme, or SOS Racism.

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Secondary school students and supporters march from Republic to Nation square in Paris.

Tens of thousands of secondary school students and their supporters march from Republic to Nation square on Oct. 6, 2026, in Paris, France. Nationwide student protests and violent school riots have disrupted over 700 secondary schools and led to roughly 5,000 arrests across France. What began in late September 2026 as peaceful blockades in the low-income Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis has rapidly escalated into a major public order crisis for President Emmanuel Macron’s government. (Guy Smallman/Getty Images)

Communist Flags and Calls for ‘Class War’

In Paris on Tuesday, the big day of the protests, the ideological character of the mobilization was visible on the streets.

In Paris, activists waved red flags of the far-left Fédération Syndicale Étudiante, or Student Trade Union Federation. Some demonstrators wore Palestinian keffiyeh scarves covering parts of their faces as they marched behind a bright red banner bearing the words «Contre Les Guerres Impérialistes,» French for «Against Imperialist Wars.»

The slogan is a recurring political message among anti-war, feminist and revolutionary-left organizations.

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The message on the red banner continued, «Guerre De Clasee !» or «Class War!» over a bright yellow image of the hammer and sickle.

The banner identified the Young Communists, associated with the Mouvement Jeunes Communistes de France, or Young Communists Movement of France, which works closely with the French Communist Party.

Activists carried flags bearing the communist hammer and sickle.

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On Instagram, the organization announced the launch of «Democratic and Antifascist Vigilance Committees.»

«High school students neglected, pro-Palestinian activists persecuted, unionists fired. State repression against our democratic rights has intensified in recent years,» the group declared.

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Young communists carry a banner that says «Contre Les Guerres Impérialistes,» protesting «imperialist wars» as part of the student protests in France on Oct. 6, 2026. (Vincent Koebel/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

‘Parti Communiste Français’

At the protest, Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the French Communist Party, took photos with protesters and later posted a message on X: «Standing alongside high school students in Paris, together with Communist elected officials and activists.»

Red flags with white stars and the message «Parti Communiste Français» flapped around him.

Online the French Communist Party has continued advancing other political campaigns, including a demand to stop supplying arms to Israel, under the slogan «Stop arming the Palestinian genocide!»

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On Wednesday, after the peak protests, the Nouveau Parti anticapitaliste – L’Anticapitaliste, «The New Anticapitalist Party,» rallied supporters, declaring there are «always more reasons to mobilize.»

Other revolutionary-left groups, including Le Poing Levé, or The Raised Fist, and Révolution Permanente, or Permanent Revolution, have promoted solidarity between high school students and university activists.

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Protesters hold Palestinian and Antifa flags in France

Protesters hold Palestinian and Antifa flags as French high school and university students attend a demonstration in Strasbourg, France, on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2026. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)

Palestine Flags

In Saint-Denis, where the protests began, the Parti des Indigènes de la République, or Party of the Indigenous of the Republic, shared a photograph of young men standing outside Lycée Paul Éluard, a high school that has become a symbol of the unrest.

As red smoke billowed above them, the students stood in front of large gray letters spelling out the school’s name, holding a Palestinian flag. The school was later featured in the New York Times under the headline, «The School Near Paris That Shows Why French Students Are Protesting.»

In the network of 50 groups, Étudiants Musulmans de France, or Muslim Students of France, rallied followers to protest for the right of youth to «study with dignity.» And members of Urgence Palestine, or «Palestine Emergency,» marched proudly in the student protests with the Palestinian flag.

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Elsewhere, French lawmaker Louis Boyard of the far-left party, La France Insoumise waved a Palestinian flag while standing at Paris-Est-Créteil University with students as they blocked their campus. In marches, their activists wave trademark purple flags that flutter with the group’s acronym «FI» and a white φ symbol for the Greek word «phi.»

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A photo taken for CodePink in Havana, Cuba.

Democratic Socialists of America member Hasan Piker and CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans of CodePink meet in Cuba, as part of «United Front» to support the communist regime. (CodePink via Storyful)

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On Wednesday, BreakThrough News published an article portraying the demonstrations as a «historic strike against austerity.»

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It also published a dramatic Instagram video of Bally Bagayoko, the far-left mayor of Saint-Denis and a politician with La France insoumise, sliding in front of students during a confrontation with police.

BreakThrough News described the scene as Bagayoko protecting «a line of French students from police as they attack the protesters.»

The anti-policing video received about 346,000 likes in one day.

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Bally Bagayoko reacts during clashes between demonstrators and riot police in Paris.

Mayor of Saint-Denis Bally Bagayoko, a member of the leftist party La France Insoumise, reacts as clashes occur between demonstrators and riot police during a protest against education conditions and to highlight the lack of resources and staff in high schools in Paris, France, on Oct. 6, 2026. (Anadolu via Getty Images)

Bally Bagayoko, mayor of Saint-Denis, poses for photographs on Bastille square in Paris.

Bally Bagayoko, mayor of Saint-Denis and a member of the leftist party La France Insoumise, poses for photographs as he arrives on Bastille square at the start of a nationwide demonstration called by high-school students demanding better learning conditions in Paris on Oct. 8, 2026. (AFP via Getty Images)

Among the accounts that liked the video were Twitch influencer Hasan Piker, a self-described Marxist; BreakThrough News editor Zoe Alexandra; the Houston chapter of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Pittsburgh chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace and other groups in the Singham network.

Earlier this year, Piker traveled to Cuba as part of a far-left «caravan» supporting the island nation’s communist government. There, he took a photo with Jodie Evans, Singham’s wife and co-founder of CodePink, which has received $1.33 million from Singham.

From Latin America, teleSUR, an international television network in the Singham network, frequently circulates material from left-wing media outlets, including BreakThrough News, and it shared footage of French students clashing with police.

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The video featured a dramatic soundtrack and the headline: «TENSIONS ESCALATE….»

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From France to Greece, India and the US

As French students stormed the streets, the Communist Youth of Greece publicly expressed solidarity with their movement. «Victory for the struggle of the school students in France!» the group said in a statement.

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BreakThrough News quoted the Greek communist organization in its France coverage, describing the developments as «foreshadowing more student struggles to follow.»

Another international connection runs through Indian Alliance Paris, a small France-based organization of students, researchers and professionals who describe themselves as committed to a «democratic and egalitarian» India.

In mid-January 2023, Indian Alliance Paris co-sponsored a teach-in in Manhattan, opposing the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The venue: the People’s Forum Inc., a midtown Manhattan hub for communist organizing that Singham launched in 2017 with $22.44 million in funding. Over the past near decade, leaders of the People’s Forum have coordinated hundreds of protests across America’s streets.

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The People’s Forum co-sponsored the event with Democratic Socialists of America and other organizations in the Singham-funded activist ecosystem, including CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

In mid-May 2024, the People’s Forum hosted a screening of a 1967 French film «La Chinoise,» and described the film as a story about a small group of French students studying Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, «trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.»

Mao unleashed mass political persecution, violence, imprisonment and social upheaval in China.

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Attendees were invited to purchase an $8 «solidarity ticket.»

On Tuesday, Indian Alliance Paris promoted the French student agitation while drawing parallels with student demonstrations in India. It posted a message on X, sending a heart emoji «to Gen Z: In France. In India. Bravo for today.»

The result is a self-reinforcing cycle: far-left activist networks amplify protests around the world, then package the unrest as evidence of a growing global uprising.

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On Thursday, after the French students had headed home after their siege on Bastille, BreakThrough News posted a collage on Instagram of short video clips from the U.S., Spain, India, France, Brazil, Belgium, Chile and Germany with youth waving communist flags, clashing with police and flooding the streets.

It posted a headline in bold capital letters over the videos: «YOUTH RISE UP AROUND THE WORLD.»





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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to UN jurist who accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza

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Navanethem «Navi» Pillay, an experienced jurist who chaired a United Nations commission that concluded Israel committed genocide in Gaza, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for «her efforts to promote peace and international law.»

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In awarding this year’s Peace Prize, the Nobel Committee argued strong international judicial institutions must be able to enforce the rule of law to have any hope of mediating the growing number of wars and conflicts worldwide.

The committee also noted that political attacks against judges and international law itself are becoming more commonplace.

Pillay has had a long, storied career — both as a lawyer and as a judge — and more recently, she has definitively weighed in on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

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Navi Pillay, who won the Nobel Peace Prize on Oct. 9, 2026, speaks during a briefing to UN member states about ongoing investigations of the Commission at the UN offices in Geneva, on April 16, 2024. (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

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She chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which was created in 2021 after a flare-up in tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

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In September 2025, nearly two years after the Oct. 7 attacks, the commission concluded that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, while also specifically accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of inciting genocide.

«It is clear that there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention,» Pillay said after the commission’s report was released.

At the time, Israel dismissed the findings as «distorted and false.»

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A view of the destruction after an Israeli attack on Khan Yunis, Gaza, Palestine on Oct. 9, 2026. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of the Israel-based Shurat HaDin Law Center, cast doubt on the Nobel Committee’s decision to award Pillay the peace prize.

«A peace prize should honor those who build peace, not those accused of turning Israel into a defendant in a campaign of political delegitimization,» said Darshan-Leitner, whose organization has led protest campaigns in Geneva against Pillay. «What peace, exactly, has she brought? The Middle East remains engulfed in conflict, and the region is nowhere near the peace this prize supposedly celebrates.»

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Pillay, 85, was born in South Africa’s Natal province to an Tamil Indian family. Her first foray into the legal profession began in 1967, when she founded her own law firm, becoming the first non-white person to do so in her province.

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Navi Pillay poses in her office at the Palais Wilson, headquarters of the specialized UN agency as she takes up her post on Sept. 1, 2008 in Geneva (Fabrice Coffrini / AFP)

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During her 28 years as a defense attorney in South Africa, she represented anti-apartheid activists. In 1973, she won a case securing political prisoners on Robben Island, including Nelson Mandela, the right to consult with lawyers.

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Two decades later, Mandela became president and in 1995, he nominated her to the High Court of South Africa, becoming the first non-white woman to serve there.

Her tenure was short-lived because that same year, the United Nations elected her to serve on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, a body established to adjudicate those responsible for the Rwandan genocide.

She was integral in the case against Jean-Paul Akayesu, the mayor of the Rwandan town of Taba, who was found guilty of inciting fellow Hutus to murder, rape and torture thousands of Tutsis.

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On May 25, 1994, children stand next to a pile of machetes that were used to kill Tutsis in Rwanda. (Scott Peterson/Liaison)

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That ruling set a precedent that rape constituted a crime against humanity and could amount to genocide when committed with the intent to destroy a targeted group.

«Rape had always been regarded as one of the spoils of war,» Pillay said after the verdict. «Now it is a war crime, no longer a trophy.»

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In 2003, she was chosen to be a judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution frequently attacked by President Donald Trump as illegitimate.

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Rockets are launched towards Israel from Gaza City on May 18, 2021. (Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

After five years on the ICC, Pillay became the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights in 2008. While in that position, she condemned both Israel and Hamas for their conduct in the 2014 Gaza War, saying both sides likely violated international law.

She also condemned the United States for providing funding to Israel’s Iron Dome program when «no such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling.»

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Pillay currently serves as an ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice, where she is hearing a case accusing Burma of committing genocide against the Rohingya, a predominantly Muslim minority in the Southeast Asian country.



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Talarico disappearance has Dem volunteers worrying and Trump asking, ‘What is going on?’

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President Donald Trump and Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton are raising questions about Democratic challenger James Talarico’s whereabouts after the candidate spent nearly two weeks away from the campaign trail, as new reporting reveals concerns about his absence among members of his own volunteer network.

Talarico, who is challenging Paxton in Texas’ closely watched Senate contest, has not appeared at an in-person campaign event since late September, citing a case of the flu. The prolonged absence has prompted attacks from Republicans, including Trump, who questioned Talarico’s whereabouts during a Wednesday campaign rally in San Antonio and later on his social media platform Truth Social, calling the Texas Democrat «MISSING IN ACTION.»

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«TalaFREAKo has been missing for 12 days! Now, after looking for him throughout all of Texas, and beyond, probably even weirder places than anyone would think possible, he put out a statement that he has the ‘flu.’ 12 days is a long time to rid yourself of the so-called flu bug,» Trump wrote Wednesday. «What’s going on? We need a Senator that’s a proven Champion like one that has been, without question, the Greatest Attorney General in the History of Texas, and one of the Greatest in the U.S.A.»

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Paxton similarly questioned his opponent’s absence, asking supporters at Wednesday’s rally, «Where is James Talarico?»

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«If it’s as tight as they claim it is, and he’s got a lead the way they claim that he is, and you’re a billionaire writing these big checks right now to Talarico, wouldn’t you want an ROI, like a return on your investment?» conservative radio host Ben Ferguson questioned on «The Will Cain Show» Thursday. «Why have we not gotten transparency from his campaign? What is really going on? Why did a guy disappear after doing an interview where he didn’t look like he had the flu?»

Talarico’s absence comes during the final stretch of Texas’ closely watched Senate race, with Election Day less than a month away. The Democrat’s last publicly documented in-person campaign event in Texas was Sept. 26, when he held a news conference in Carrollton addressing rising gasoline prices and the war in Iran, according to CNN.

Talarico subsequently attended a private fundraiser in New York and participated virtually in a Sept. 30 business forum, where he said he had been diagnosed with the flu at a Dallas urgent care facility the previous evening. Talarico has Type 1 diabetes, which puts him at greater risk of developing serious flu complications, according to the CDC.

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His campaign has said Talarico expects to return to in-person campaigning this weekend ahead of a publicly scheduled CNN town hall on Oct. 14. The campaign also cited «more than 100 public events» Talarico has already done.

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«I guess I’ve been shaking too many hands on the campaign trail, and so I want to keep everybody safe,» Talarico explained, adding he did not want to risk spreading the illness to vulnerable individuals.

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«Ken Paxton has been ignoring Texans this entire campaign, and his priorities are clear: he doesn’t answer to the people of this state — he answers to his billionaire megadonors and special interests,» campaign spokesperson JT Ennis told Digital.

Meanwhile, the New York Post reported Thursday that leaked messages from a private Slack channel showed members of Talarico’s volunteer network discussing his prolonged absence, with one expressing concern that he could lose momentum.

«I think it’ll be fine. It’s [j]ust conservatives blasting him. I’m just worried about him losing momentum,» a Talarico campaign volunteer wrote in a group chat with other volunteers, featuring nearly 4,000 people, according to The Post. «But I 100% expect him to make a comeback at the CNN [t]own hall that’s a given.»

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«It’s a buncha people that don’t actually want him to be out touring that are causing a stink. No one’s genuinely upset,» another volunteer wrote.

Digital reached out to the Talarico campaign for additional information on where the candidate is recovering and when this weekend he will reappear on the campaign trail but did not receive a response by the time of publication.

«I would much rather have my candidate rested and have any ailments out of the way now than down the stretch, because if they’re sick two weeks before the election, they’re still going to be on the road which means it’s only going to get worse. So let them heal up and get their strength back,» veteran Texas-based Democratic strategist Ed Espinoza told Digital. «Even though Talarico’s off the trail, he’s still on the airwaves,» Espinoza added, referring to the campaign’s significant ad spending in Texas. «He’s got plenty of money to get his message out.»

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Cámara de Comercio panameña impulsa acercamiento entre jóvenes, pymes y compañías

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La Cámara de Comercio, Industrias y Agricultura de Panamá (CCIAP) impulsa conexiones empresariales para acercar a jóvenes, pymes y compañías mediante compromisos que podían continuar después del encuentro.

Un reciente encuentro reunió diálogo, intercambio profesional y una dinámica orientada a convertir contactos en reuniones, mentorías, pasantías, cotizaciones y alianzas.

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Se planteó que abrir oportunidades también forma parte de la sostenibilidad.

La propuesta pretende vincular al sector empresarial con las pequeñas y medianas empresas y el talento joven, con una mirada que priorizó el aprendizaje y la colaboración.

El vicepresidente de la CCIAP, Ashok Nandwani, convocó a las empresas a incorporar la responsabilidad social empresarial en las decisiones cotidianas y no tratarla como un apartado separado de su actividad.

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Ashok Nandwani, vicepresidente del gremio, convocó a las empresas a incorporar la responsabilidad social empresarial en las decisiones cotidianas y no tratarla como un apartado separado de su actividad. (CCIAP)

“La responsabilidad social empresarial tiene que estar intrínsecamente en nuestro ADN”, expresó Nandwani.

El directivo sostuvo que esa mirada debe reflejarse en el trato hacia los equipos, el desarrollo de capacidades y la creación de oportunidades para que otras personas crezcan.

Para el vicepresidente, la sostenibilidad no se limita a la dimensión ambiental. También abarca la construcción de organizaciones que puedan mantenerse en el tiempo, formar a su personal y producir efectos positivos mientras desarrollan sus negocios.

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“A veces las grandes oportunidades comienzan con algo muchísimo más sencillo: una conversación”, señaló Nandwani. La Cámara busca promover más instancias de ese tipo entre sus miembros y la comunidad empresarial.

La actividad puso el foco en los jóvenes y las pymes como actores vinculados al futuro de la actividad empresarial.

La Cámara plantea facilitar el contacto entre quienes buscan sus primeras experiencias laborales y las empresas que requieren perfiles y capacidades específicas. (CCIAP)

La CCIAP plantea facilitar el contacto entre quienes buscan sus primeras experiencias laborales y las empresas que requieren perfiles y capacidades específicas.

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Nandwani afirmó que la llegada de jóvenes a las compañías no debe interpretarse solo como una responsabilidad corporativa, y también supone una oportunidad para incorporar perspectivas diferentes y una relación distinta con la tecnología.

“El joven que llega a una empresa trae poca experiencia, sí, pero también llega con nuevas preguntas y con otra relación con la tecnología”, sostuvo.

Según el dirigente, esa mirada puede llevar a las organizaciones a revisar la forma en que realizan sus tareas.

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La iniciativa se relaciona con los esfuerzos de la Cámara para impulsar pasantías, cuyo propósito es reducir la distancia entre la formación de los jóvenes y las necesidades que tienen las compañías.

Sede de la Cámara de Comercio, Industrias y Agricultura de Panamá, ubicada en la ciudad de Panamá.

La jornada contó con la participación de Karin Sempf, CEO y fundadora de Innova Nation; Nicole Loré, especialista en comunicaciones de Ciudad del Saber; y Luis Quiodettis, CEO de PupiloHubs.

Los especialistas abordaron las razones por las que el talento y las organizaciones no siempre consiguen encontrarse. También analizaron las expectativas de las nuevas generaciones y los desafíos de las primeras experiencias de trabajo.

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El diálogo incluyó la incorporación de pasantes y el valor de las redes profesionales. Los panelistas coincidieron en que los contactos pueden superar el intercambio individual cuando se convierten en un entorno que impulse innovación, negocios y nuevas oportunidades.

La conversación planteó la necesidad de construir puentes entre la formación, el talento, las empresas y el emprendimiento. La meta fue promover ámbitos donde las relaciones profesionales deriven en acciones verificables.

Los asistentes usaron el Pasaporte de Conexiones como una herramienta para registrar sus intereses, aportes, contactos relevantes y la acción que seguiría a cada intercambio. El instrumento buscó que las conversaciones no quedaran limitadas al salón.

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La ilustración muestra un flujo circular de recursos y colaboración entre micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas, con emprendedores interactuando en distintos locales comerciales. (Imagen Ilustrativa Infobae)

Entre las alternativas promovidas figuraron reuniones posteriores, presentaciones entre compañías, mentorías, cotizaciones, contactos comerciales, oportunidades de pasantías y acuerdos de colaboración.

En el cierre, el vicepresidente de la Cámara relacionó la consigna del encuentro con su experiencia dentro de una empresa familiar. Planteó el desafío de preservar aquello que permitió crecer a una organización sin dejar de adaptarse a nuevas necesidades.

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