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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.»
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.»
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.
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.
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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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.
«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.»
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.»
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 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.
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.»
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.
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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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.
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.
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!»
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 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.
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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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)
Singham Network Broadcasts France’s Unrest
On Wednesday, BreakThrough News published an article portraying the demonstrations as a «historic strike against austerity.»
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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‘Big difference’: Dem’s last-minute endorsement gives GOP new hope in crucial Senate battle
OAKLAND COUNTY, MICHIGAN — Michigan’s Republican ticket had a clear message for voters preparing to vote in the midterm elections: Their path to victory relies on winning over voters who typically don’t align themselves with the GOP.
That prospect appeared to be buoyed by Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens’ 11th-hour endorsement of Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers over her primary rival, Abdul El-Sayed. Early Monday afternoon, Republican operatives in Michigan blasted out a press release advertising an event just hours later intended to tout Stevens’ endorsement and its purported impact on Black and Jewish voters.
In front of a throng of press at the Michigan GOP’s headquarters, six community leaders representing African Americans and Jews criticized what they saw as El-Sayed’s excesses and lauded Stevens’ endorsement of Rogers. Broadly, they argued that El-Sayed had insufficiently distanced himself from some of his radical associations, that Stevens’ endorsement had real significance for the race and that they were seeing an unprecedented groundswell of support for Republicans among their peers.
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In addition to the community leaders, close to two dozen others — many of whom were Black or Jewish — attended the event as well. While some political observers have cast doubt on the impact of Stevens’ endorsement and the degree to which African Americans and Jews are defecting from the Democratic Party, members of those communities told Digital the shift is happening.
«I believe it’s going to make a big difference that she came out,» Michelle Nard, an African American former Democrat running for state Senate, told Digital. «She had a big following. She’s a great congresswoman, a great state representative for the United States.»
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Nard recounted how she had recently spoken to a Black woman who highlighted that her community makes a big deal of going to the polls on Election Day, a point she used to stress that Haley’s endorsement, though late in the cycle, could still influence last-second voters.
«You have strong Haley Stevens supporters in our community that will support her to the end, and then you have some that feel betrayed,» Marcus Bowman, a metro Detroit school board trustee, told Digital.
Bowman, who says he knows Stevens personally, said: «True supporters of Haley Stevens, they know her as a person and they know what she represents. I think they will follow her and respect her for her decision based off some of the radical things we’ve heard about Abdul El-Sayed.»
While those who spoke were handpicked for a Republican news conference, there is some data to back up Black voter defection. Between August and September, El-Sayed’s support among African Americans held steady at around 75%, well below the party’s typical benchmark.
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The Arab American community in the Detroit metropolitan area has historically been at odds with African Americans in the areas across a number of issues, a theme that has come up occasionally during El-Sayed’s campaign.
While comparable polls have not found similar trends among Jewish voters, who are a much smaller part of Michigan’s electorate, a number of high-profile members of the communities, including top donors, have flocked to the Rogers camp.
«Haley, what she did was give a lot of Jews permission, hardcore left-wing Democrats, permission to now say, you know what, if Haley can endorse him, I can vote for him,» Aaron Tobin, a conservative Jewish community leader, told Digital in reference to Mike Rogers. «Now I think she’s broken that wall down, and now they can see that a hardcore Democrat — and she was very successful and very popular in Michigan — if she said Mike Rogers is good enough for her, I think a lot of Jews are going to say, ‘I’m going to vote for him because Abdul just says the worst things.’»
Ezra, another Jewish voter, told Digital that he believes Jews have increasingly been abandoned by the Democratic Party and, even if Stevens’ endorsement doesn’t move the needle, he’s grateful that she took a stand.
«The [March 12] terrorist attack in [a] West Bloomfield [synagogue], I believe was the starting point of the Detroit Jewish community being afraid and that fear was not alleviated over the next [six months]. That fear has not been alleviated by Abdul El-Sayed in any sort of way, which is why I think you’re seeing this,» he said. «We’re waiting for something and it’s not coming. And so that’s why I think you’re seeing so many in the Jewish community moving for Mike Rogers because they’re like, you know what, that guy’s going to keep my family safe. The other guy’s not.»
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«I think in some ways, it’s, it’s more brave because it’s at the last minute. In some ways, you know what, who knows, even if it, if it’s 100 votes or 1000 votes, then it makes a difference,» he added.
These alleged breakthroughs with traditionally Democratic constituencies took center stage at Rogers’ closing rally on Monday night. At one point, the campaign invited six Black and Jewish voters, most of them former Democrats, to take the stage where they explained why they believed El-Sayed to be too extreme for their support. Rogers himself praised the group during his final campaign speech, invoked the need for unity and thanked Stevens at length for her endorsement.
Conservatives at the rally were clearly grateful to Stevens for her endorsement, with nearly every mention of her name being met with cheers or chants of her name. Republicans are even optimistic that Stevens’ endorsement could trickle down to their down-ballot races.
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«I was on the ground last week in Michigan and Ohio, and the momentum in Michigan is real. It was real before Haley Stevens endorsed Mike Rogers, even more real now,» Adam Piper, executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association, told Digital.
Piper said he «absolutely» believes Stevens’ endorsement will move the needle for Michigan Republican attorney general nominee Doug Lloyd.
«You know, around the Detroit area, Grosse Pointe, Detroit, elsewhere, I saw homemade yard signs in the yards of Black churches that said African Americans and Jews stand together. And that was powerful.»
Lloyd said he is optimistic that Stevens’ endorsement of Rogers could give him a boost.
«Well, I saw something today in the news that basically said 50% of the available voters have voted through absentee and early voting. We still have one day left. And as we’ve said, you know, the race isn’t done until 8 o’clock tomorrow night when the polls close,» he said. «So, if this made a difference for someone who had been sitting on the sideline and they decided they were going to get out and vote because of it, I’m excited for that.»
Democrats have argued Stevens’ endorsement could strengthen, rather than weaken, El-Sayed’s support. Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel said he expected the episode to galvanize Democrats, while El-Sayed’s campaign reported raising $2.4 million Sunday, its largest fundraising day of the campaign.
While cutting into the Democratic Party’s margins by successfully pulling away Black and Jewish voters could prove valuable to the GOP, a reversion among Arab voters — who swung toward Republicans in 2024 but strongly favor El-Sayed — could erase such gains. Fox News’ final power ranking rated Michigan’s Senate race as a toss-up, meaning that, as voters head to the polls, neither party holds a clear edge.
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Ukraine’s Zelenskyy on defying US in attacking Russian oil: ‘Our response must be painful’
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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is defying calls from the Trump administration for his armed forces to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, telling Fox News: «Our response must be painful.»
In an interview in Kyiv, Zelenskyy acknowledged holding discussions with the Trump administration about targeting oil facilities, attacks President Donald Trump has pinned as being partly to blame for high gas prices in the U.S.
«We had different conversations — different, and several — with President Trump and with his team about attacks on refineries,» Zelenskyy said.
«We said that if you want us not to attack Russia’s refineries, they have not to attack our energy system.»
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During an interview with Fox News, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged President Donald Trump to pursue an energy cease-fire with Russia as Washington pressures Kyiv to halt attacks on Russian oil refineries. (Fox News)
Ukraine has reported near-daily Russian strikes on energy infrastructure, triggering power outages just as temperatures dip ahead of winter.
«That’s why we have to respond. But our response has to be painful for Russian military people,» Zelenskyy said. «If we will not respond on energy, they will continue.»
U.S.-Ukraine relations took a further hit in October when Trump struck a deal to import millions of tons of Russian diesel to the United States.
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Zelenskyy warned President Donald Trump against helping Russia while praising first lady Melania Trump’s role in securing a humanitarian evacuation from Russian-controlled territory. (Fox News)
Zelenskyy suggested Ukraine might be encouraged to hold off on further attacks on Russian oil facilities if the United States were to deliver more U.S.-made Patriot missile interceptors to protect Ukrainian skies. Pressed by Fox News on whether that might be seen as an attempt to leverage Trump, Zelenskyy said: «I don’t have any concerns when I share the truth between partners.»
«Our countries are huge partners. American society (is a) huge supporter.»
«And that’s why I have to share with (the) president the truth, the real situation: that America can’t help Russia. (The) president can’t help Putin.»
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News that Ukraine will continue targeting Russian oil refineries despite objections from the Trump administration. (Pier Marco Tacca; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Ahead of planned peace talks in the United Arab Emirates, Zelenskyy urged Trump to launch another push for a targeted ceasefire where both Russia and Ukraine refrain from attacks on energy facilities.
«If the American president thinks that this war has influence on the prices,» Zelenskyy said, «he can ask, energy ceasefire, during (the) Abu Dhabi trilateral meeting: energy ceasefire.»
Zelenskyy spoke with Fox News hours before starved and exhausted residents left the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky and crossed into Ukraine under a humanitarian truce brokered by first lady Melania Trump, the first of its kind in more than four years of war.
Zelenskyy welcomed the first lady’s initiative, calling the evacuations «a huge result,» and adding: «I don’t know how many such steps will be available for us, but if the First Lady can do it … it’s very helpful. I’m very thankful to her.»
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Docentes nicaragüenses reportan descuentos en sus salarios bajo el concepto de “aporte”
Las docentes del sistema público nicaragüense reportan descuentos en sus salarios bajo el concepto de “aporte”, una retención que, según testimonios recogidos por Diario La Prensa y La Sala, Mujeres en la Redacción, comenzó a aplicarse desde junio de 2026 a trabajadores estatales.
Las maestras consultadas describieron que el descuento se suma a otras retenciones legales y sindicales, así como a gastos en materiales escolares, transporte, conectividad e impresiones que deben afrontar para cumplir con sus tareas laborales.
Los testimonios publicados indican que los descuentos identificados como “aporte” oscilan según el salario de cada docente. Una profesora de Managua, identificada como Ana para proteger su identidad, afirmó que en su colilla de pago apareció una deducción de 2%, sin una explicación detallada sobre su destino.
Las boletas de pago registran descuentos bajo el concepto de “aporte”
Ana relató que conoció por noticias la posibilidad de que se aplicaran retenciones a empleados públicos en favor del Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN). Tras consultar a la dirección de su escuela, esperó una reunión que, según contó, no llegó a realizarse.
Al revisar su pago, encontró un apartado denominado “aporte”. De acuerdo con su testimonio, durante cinco meses le descontaron 260 córdobas (USD 7.02) mensuales, un total de 1,300 córdobas (USD 35.10).
“Entre más ganás, más te quitan”, dijo la profesora a Diario La Prensa y La Sala, Mujeres en la Redacción.
El diario informó que tuvo acceso a boletas de pago de docentes de distintos departamentos. En esos documentos se registraban deducciones de 2% y 5%, mientras que otros entrevistados mencionaron descuentos de mayor proporción.
El reportaje señala que estas retenciones no fueron consultadas con los trabajadores entrevistados. También cita el artículo 9 del Convenio 95 de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT), que establece restricciones a los descuentos salariales vinculados con la conservación de un empleo.
Los ingresos docentes se reducen por varias retenciones y gastos
El salario mensual del sector magisterial ronda entre 8,500 córdobas (USD 229.50) y 10,000 córdobas (USD 270), según la información publicada. Las docentes de primaria y de aulas multigrado se ubican en los niveles de remuneración más bajos, mientras que el personal de secundaria suele recibir montos superiores.
Además del “aporte”, las maestras mencionaron descuentos por seguridad social, sindicato e Impuesto sobre la Renta cuando corresponde. La cuota destinada a la Asociación Nacional de Educadores de Nicaragua (Anden) es de unos 120 córdobas (USD 3.24), de acuerdo con la nota.
Las cotizaciones al Instituto Nicaragüense de Seguridad Social representan 7% del salario. El impuesto se aplica a quienes superan los 10,000 córdobas (USD 270), según el reportaje, que estima que el conjunto de las retenciones puede superar los 2,000 córdobas (USD 54) mensuales.
Hasta julio de 2026, el costo de la canasta básica era de 21,474.94 córdobas (USD 579.82), según datos del Instituto Nacional de Información de Desarrollo citados por Diario La Prensa. Esa referencia supera los ingresos mensuales mencionados por las docentes.
Las maestras de primaria describen una carga mayor de trabajo y gastos
Verónica, una docente de secundaria de Managua con 12 años de experiencia, sostuvo que las maestras de primaria ganan menos y deben destinar más dinero a materiales y documentos para las clases.
La profesora explicó que el Ministerio de Educación (Mined) entrega algunos insumos, como cartulinas y marcadores, pero que los recursos resultan insuficientes para las actividades requeridas en los centros educativos.
“Las de primaria gastan más que nosotros”, expresó Verónica ante el diario. Indicó que ese grupo debe impartir todas las materias y elaborar documentos para las supervisiones.
La diferencia salarial también se vincula con la formación académica. El texto señala que las docentes de secundaria tienen licenciatura en Educación, mientras que muchas maestras de primaria cuentan con estudios técnicos realizados en una Escuela Normal.
Verónica relató el caso de una compañera que debía llevar a su hija al trabajo en algunas ocasiones porque no podía afrontar un servicio de cuidado infantil. Según su versión, las dificultades económicas se agravaban por los gastos asociados a la actividad docente.
Los testimonios relacionan las deducciones con menos alimentos y transporte
El profesor Gabriel Putoy, integrante de la Unidad Sindical Magisterial (USM) y ex preso político que vive fuera de Nicaragua, dijo que ha documentado descuentos de entre 200 córdobas (USD 5.40) y 470 córdobas (USD 12.69) para algunos docentes.
Putoy señaló que esas cantidades tienen consecuencias en presupuestos familiares con ingresos limitados. “Cada peso que te quitan cuenta”, afirmó ante la publicación.
El docente comparó los montos descontados con el costo de alimentos, útiles escolares y transporte. Según sus cálculos, una retención puede equivaler a tortillas, huevos, panes o marcadores que dejan de comprarse durante el mes.
Verónica afirmó que recibe 12,500 córdobas (USD 337.50) brutos, aunque su ingreso neto queda apenas por encima de los 10,000 córdobas (USD 270) después de las deducciones. También explicó que debe pagar impresiones de materiales vinculados con contenidos que no aparecen en los libros de texto.
El Banco Central de Nicaragua registraba 47,215 trabajadores en el sistema educativo público, según los datos citados en la investigación. A partir de esa cifra, el reportaje proyectó una recaudación anual superior a USD 3 millones si se aplicara el descuento mínimo mencionado sobre un salario promedio de 10,821 córdobas (USD 292.17).
La docencia es un sector integrado mayoritariamente por mujeres
Rosario Murillo afirmó en junio de 2023 que las mujeres representaban 78% de los 60,000 docentes registrados entonces en el país. El reportaje precisa que no existen datos oficiales más recientes con desglose por género.
La socióloga y feminista María Teresa Blandón dijo a Diario La Prensa que el magisterio ha estado compuesto históricamente, en su mayoría, por mujeres. Añadió que muchas docentes son jefas de hogar o aportan la mayor parte de los ingresos familiares.
“Esa cotización obligada va a afectar” a un porcentaje alto de maestras, sostuvo Blandón. La especialista indicó que algunas trabajadoras necesitan realizar labores adicionales por cuenta propia para cubrir gastos básicos.
La socióloga planteó que una reducción salarial afecta no solo a las docentes, sino también a las personas que dependen de ellas. Según explicó, los ingresos de mujeres con empleo estable suelen destinarse principalmente a las necesidades de sus hogares.
Las docentes también informan gastos en teléfonos, internet y materiales
Karen, una profesora de Granada, explicó que no tiene computadora propia y debe acudir a un cibercafé para preparar pruebas y otros documentos. Además, afirmó que paga marcadores y otros recursos para el aula.
La docente señaló que en su colegio hay computadoras, aunque dijo que con frecuencia están ocupadas. Por motivos de salud, trabaja únicamente en el turno de la mañana y no puede tomar otra plaza por la tarde.
Ana indicó que compró un teléfono inteligente por 7,000 córdobas (USD 189) para participar en grupos de WhatsApp, recibir orientaciones y enviar fotografías de actividades. También afirmó que destina 400 córdobas (USD 10.80) mensuales al acceso a internet.
Las fuentes consultadas relataron que deben asistir a actividades fuera de las aulas, incluidas marchas, jornadas de limpieza, fumigación, censos y acciones vinculadas con la matrícula escolar. Putoy afirmó que estas tareas en ocasiones se realizan fuera de la jornada laboral o durante fines de semana.
Ana señaló que la asistencia a esas actividades forma parte de la evaluación laboral. Según su testimonio, las direcciones escolares solicitan fotografías como prueba de participación.
Organizaciones y especialistas advierten sobre el impacto laboral
El Colectivo de Derechos Humanos Nicaragua Nunca Más informó que ha recibido denuncias de ex trabajadores estatales relacionadas con descuentos salariales. Arlen Pérez, defensora de la organización, afirmó que algunas personas temen reclamar por posibles consecuencias laborales.
Pérez sostuvo que las denuncias también incluyen presiones políticas dentro de las escuelas. Según su declaración, algunos docentes informaron que deben transmitir contenidos favorables al Gobierno para evitar dificultades en sus puestos.
La investigadora estadounidense Pauline Martin, exdirectora de la maestría en Política y Evaluación Educativa de la Universidad Centroamericana, calificó como inusual el escenario descrito por las fuentes consultadas.
Martin consideró que las deducciones y el control sobre las tareas docentes pueden afectar la motivación profesional. También señaló que los sistemas educativos centralizados dejan poco margen para la autonomía y la innovación en las aulas.
Los testimonios reunidos por la investigación coinciden en que la combinación de descuentos, gastos laborales y actividades adicionales reduce el ingreso disponible de las docentes. Para las trabajadoras consultadas, el efecto se refleja en la alimentación, el transporte y la compra de materiales necesarios para enseñar.
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