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Communist and socialist groups call for ‘revolution’ and seizure of property at Minneapolis May Day rally
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Communist and socialist groups called for a «revolution» at a May Day rally in Minneapolis Friday, highlighting the growing influence of far-left organizations at an event traditionally centered on workers’ rights.
Some of those demonstrators denounced capitalism and pushed for the seizure of private property and the means of production, marking a shift in tone from past May Day rallies that primarily focused on labor issues.
Protesters on the ground outlined a range of demands, including rent caps tied to income, a reduced work week and the redistribution of wealth from billionaires. The rally, which drew well over 1,000 people, was organized as an immigrant rights demonstration but brought together a broad mix of labor unions, activist organizations and far-left political groups marching side by side.
Among the groups present were the Communist Party USA, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), the Revolutionary Communists of America (RCA), the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), and members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), with numerous participants carrying flags and signage featuring socialist imagery like the hammer and sickle.
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Protesters affiliated with the Revolutionary Communists of America hold a banner during a May Day march in Minneapolis, Minn. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
Members of the Communist Party USA were seen handing out newspapers and leaflets, including a publication titled The Communist with the headline «Down with Trump’s War!»
Demonstrators carried signs reading «F–k ICE,» «Abolish ICE,» «Fight Trump’s Agenda,» «No Kings» and «Stop the War,» while others waved red flags associated with the Communist Party USA and held banners featuring the hammer and sickle, including signage from the Revolutionary Communists of America.
A Fox News Digital investigation previously identified U.S.-born tech entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham, who lives in China, as a key figure in a network tied to some far-left groups involved in protests, part of a broader mobilization involving roughly 600 organizations nationwide.
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But demonstrators interviewed in Minneapolis said they were largely unaware of him or dismissed concerns about funding.
Andy Koch, a member of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, told Fox News Digital the U.S. is «run by billionaires» and should instead be run by working people. He said support from a a wealthy donor would be acceptable if it advanced the cause.
«If one billionaire… wants to donate to progressive pro-worker causes, that’s great,» Koch said.
When asked for examples of successful socialist systems, Koch pointed to China, saying «China’s doing pretty good right now,» and praised the former Soviet Union for having «done a lot for its people.
Members of the Revolutionary Communists of America were also present, with one protester saying he was «radicalized» in 2020 following the death of George Floyd.
«We’re calling for down with Trump and down with the Democrats,» the protester said.
Protesters affiliated with the Revolutionary Communists of America hold a banner during a May Day march in Minneapolis, Minn. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
Demonstrations in Minneapolis come months after large-scale anti-ICE protests with Friday’s May Day events reflecting similar themes tied to immigration enforcement and broader economic concerns.
The march was organized as an immigrant rights demonstration, promoted under the slogan «Immigrants Rise! Workers Unite!» and led by groups including the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC).
A speaker with MIRAC led chants of «No one is illegal» and «All power to the people,» with large sections of the crowd repeating the slogans.
The event began with organizers and speakers affiliated with the Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee (MIRAC) leading chants and addressing the crowd from a makeshift stage, while dancers in indigenous regalia were also present. Socialist and communist groups initially gathered toward the back of the crowd but later joined the march, falling in line behind the immigrant rights organizers as demonstrators moved through the city.
A significant contingent of socialist and communist groups marched alongside the organizers, underscoring the ideological overlap at the event.
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Flags throughout the march reflected a wide mix of causes and affiliations, including Palestinian flags, LGBTQ pride imagery and banners associated with socialist and communist groups.
High-visibility marshals affiliated with protest groups directed the march and blocked side streets, with little to no visible police presence along much of the route.
Another protester who identified as a communist said the current system is a «dead end» and argued that «the workers create all the value in society and we get to own none of it under capitalism.» She said the group supports policies including rent caps tied to income and limiting rent to 10% of wages.
When asked about rent-control policies in cities like New York and California, where such measures have faced criticism, one woman said those efforts failed because they were not «under workers’ control.»
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Protesters pose with a copy of The Communist newspaper during a May Day rally in Minneapolis, Minn. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
«Under capitalism, it won’t work. We need a society under control of the workers,» she said.
Owen Phernetton, a member of the Revolutionary Communists of America, said the group is «building a party of class fighters» and argued that «we need a revolution… on a socialist basis.»
He said the organization supports seizing property, including factories, mines and office spaces and placing them under the ownership of the working class.
«We argue for decreasing the workday to only 20 hours a week without any loss in pay,» he said.
He added that billionaire wealth should be «expropriated and put in use for the working class,» pointing to the Soviet Union as an example.
Several Minneapolis City Council members, most affiliated with the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), attended the rally and read out a non-binding resolution recognizing May 1 as International Workers Day. During the remarks, one speaker told the crowd «we must abolish ICE,» linking labor issues with immigration policy.
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Jason Chavez read parts of the resolution alongside fellow council members Elliott Payne, Aurin Chowdhury, Soren Stevenson and Jamal Osman. Council member Robin Wonsley was also present.
Not all observers supported the messaging.
Sedonia Meyers, who said she was watching from the sidewalk, described herself as «a very centrist individual» and said immigration should follow a legal process.
Protesters hold Democratic Socialists of America signs during a May Day rally in Minneapolis. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
«If you want to be a citizen… you should work hard… and do the proper steps,» she said, adding that the U.S. must «vet the people that come into this country» to ensure public safety.
Two other elderly women observing nearby welcomed the presence of communist and socialist groups, describing the rally as a «big tent,» and inisting that there was «room for everyone,» though they did not support calls to abolish ICE.
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The protest concluded without major disruption, with demonstrators marching through the city in largely good spirits. A marching band played upbeat music as participants moved along the route, though speakers delivered more forceful rhetoric as they outlined their demands.
Earlier in the day, smaller gatherings drew limited turnout, including a union-led rally at Government Plaza that a union leader described a union gathering with «no connection to broader protests.»
Hundreds of protesters march through Minneapolis during a May Day rally calling for workers’ rights and immigration reform. (Derek Shook/Fox News Digital)
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El presidente surcoreano le pidió ayuda a Donald Trump para lograr la paz con Corea del Norte, como lo hizo “en Medio Oriente”
El presidente de Corea del Sur, Lee Jae-myung, solicitó a su homólogo estadounidense, Donald Trump, que lo ayude a alcanzar la paz con Corea del Norte, “tal como resolvió el conflicto en Medio Oriente”. Según un comunicado de la oficina presidencial surcoreana, durante una conversación mantenida en la cumbre del G7 en Francia, Trump consultó a Lee sobre los avances en las relaciones intercoreanas.
La petición se produjo en el contexto de la inminente firma de un memorando de entendimiento entre Washington e Irán para poner fin a su guerra, un hecho que ha alimentado la expectativa de que la administración de Trump podría concentrarse a continuación en la península coreana. El mandatario estadounidense avivó esa especulación tras anunciar el acuerdo con Teherán al publicar en sus redes sociales una imagen junto al dictador norcoreano Kim Jong-un, tomada durante su cumbre de 2018 en Singapur.
En el diálogo entre el mandatario estadounidense y el surcoreano, “el presidente Lee le pidió que él (Trump) tomara la iniciativa para lograr una resolución pacífica de la cuestión norcoreana, tal como resolvió el conflicto en Medio Oriente”. El boletín añadió que el inquilino de la Casa Blanca “expresó su compromiso de trabajar” para alcanzar esa distensión.
El presidente Lee mantiene una postura conciliadora hacia Corea del Norte, en contraste con la más firme de su predecesor, Yoon Suk Yeol. En esa línea, el Ministerio de Defensa de Seúl anunció nuevas normas que amplían el acceso público a la zona fronteriza altamente militarizada, permitiendo a los civiles acercarse varios kilómetros más al límite con Corea del Norte.
Las dos Coreas continúan técnicamente en guerra desde 1953, cuando el conflicto finalizó con un armisticio y no con un tratado de paz, y se hallan separadas por una zona desmilitarizada. Por años, la Línea de Control Civil (CCL) restringió el paso de surcoreanos a menos de 10 kilómetros al sur de la frontera fortificada. El ministro de Defensa, Ahn Gyu-back, informó que la CCL se reducirá a un promedio de 6 kilómetros, lo que incrementará el acceso para residentes, agricultores y visitantes.
Pyongyang rechazó en reiteradas ocasiones los intentos de acercamiento de Lee, calificando oficialmente a Seúl como su enemigo “más hostil” y reafirmando su condición de estado nuclear “irreversible”. Analistas especializados en la península coreana consideran que las probabilidades de un nuevo encuentro entre Kim Jong-un y Trump son bajas.
Cabe recordar que Corea del Sur y Estados Unidos restablecieron la referencia a la desnuclearización de Corea del Norte en la declaración conjunta emitida tras una reunión clave sobre asuntos nucleares en Seúl la semana pasada. El texto, correspondiente a la sexta sesión del Grupo Consultivo Nuclear (NCG) y difundido la noche del jueves, señala que ambos países “reafirmaron su objetivo común de lograr la desnuclearización de Corea del Norte”.
En la anterior sesión del NCG, celebrada en diciembre en Washington, se había omitido toda mención directa al régimen norcoreano y a la desnuclearización de la península, hecho que alimentó especulaciones acerca de un posible intento de facilitar un acercamiento entre el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, y el dictador norcoreano, Kim Jong-un.
El retorno del compromiso bilateral ocurre después de la reciente cumbre en Pyongyang entre Kim y el líder chino, Xi Jinping, en la que no se abordó públicamente el tema. La Casa Blanca sostuvo que, tras la reunión del mes pasado entre Trump y Xi en Beijing, ambos mandatarios ratificaron el objetivo compartido de desnuclearizar el territorio norcoreano.
(Con información de AFP)
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GOP Gov DeWine urges Ohio to abolish the death penalty, says it is no longer a deterrent
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, on Tuesday announced support for abolishing capital punishment in his state, reaffirming his change of heart on the policy he helped write as a legislator 45 years ago to reinstate the death penalty in Ohio.
DeWine, who has repeatedly postponed executions during his time as governor, pointed to data showing that the death penalty does not serve as a deterrent to violent crime.
«For the state to take a human life, there must, in my opinion, there must be evidence that in doing so it will help protect the public, that the threat of that action will deter someone from committing murder,» DeWine said at a news conference.
«I do not believe that argument today can be successfully made, nor do I believe that there’s any chance in the future the facts that I’ve cited to support that belief will change,» he said. «Therefore, I believe Ohio should abolish the death penalty.»
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced support for abolishing capital punishment in his state. (AP Photo/Patrick Aftoora-Orsagos)
As he made his case, DeWine brought out charts and graphs showing the decline in both the number of death sentences handed down by courts and the quantity of executions being carried out. The data also showed the exceedingly long wait times as legal appeals play out for inmates on death row.
The governor said condemned murderers are increasingly unlikely to be executed, as they sometimes die by natural causes or by suicide before they can be executed.
«Even if the murderer is caught, indicted, convicted and sentenced to death, the odds are still pretty good they’re not going to be executed,» he said.
«In summary, each decade that the death penalty has been in effect, the chances of a murderer getting executed get more and more and more remote,» he added.
The last 10 people to be executed in Ohio had been on death row between 14 and 32 years, he said. Since the state reinstated capital punishment in 1981 under a law co-written by DeWine, 56 people who received the death sentence have been executed and 41 died by natural causes or suicide while on death row. Another 89 death sentences were overturned due to «judicial action» such as legal errors.
DeWine emphasized the years of pain for victims’ loved ones due to the delays and the impact on the mental health of state employees who work on execution teams.
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The governor cited data showing that the death penalty does not serve as a deterrent to violent crime. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
«I no longer believe the death penalty is a deterrent to murder,» DeWine said. «The moral justification I had for voting for the death penalty simply no longer exists.»
The governor, who is term-limited and cannot seek another term in the 2026 election, said he felt compelled to share his thoughts now after 50 years of experience with the death penalty issue, including as a Greene County prosecutor, a member of the U.S. House and Senate and as Ohio’s attorney general.
However, he said his outright opposition to the death penalty has become solidified in the past year.
DeWine urged the legislature to abolish the death penalty or to leave it up to state residents to vote on the issue, although Republican House Speaker Matt Huffman has said he would oppose such an effort. Other supporters of capital punishment have argued that Ohio’s yearslong execution pause has denied justice to victims’ families and weakened the deterrent effect of death sentences.
DeWine has not authorized an execution since taking office seven years ago, citing, on numerous occasions, pharmaceutical suppliers’ unwillingness to provide the drugs used in lethal injections. Last year, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Justice Department to help states to resolve that issue. In January 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the U.S. Justice Department to help states resolve that issue.
The governor has said he expects no more executions during the remainder of his term. Delaying executions has left Ohio with 30 scheduled over the next four years, according to the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction. The state has not put an inmate to death since July 18, 2018, before DeWine took office.
The governor urged the legislature to abolish the death penalty or to leave it up to state residents to vote on the issue. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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«The most important way to protect the public is to lock up violent criminals and to keep them out of society,» DeWine said. «That is a proven way of saving lives and protecting our citizens. Our money and energies are much better spent focusing on keeping these repeat violent offenders out of society.»
Currently, 27 states allow the death penalty while 23 states and Washington, D.C., do not, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
Since 2019, including that year, three states have abolished capital punishment, while five states now authorize nitrogen hypoxia as an execution method amid ongoing controversy over lethal injection protocols.
At the federal level, Trump has pushed to expand executions. During his first term, 13 federal executions were carried out, which was more than any president in modern history.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Hay 2,4 millones de jóvenes en el padrón de Guatemala hasta junio de 2026, menos que en 2023
El Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) de Guatemala informó que hasta el 15 de junio de 2026 había 2,4 millones de jóvenes empadronados menores de 30 años, por debajo del registro del proceso electoral de 2023. El dato fue analizado por la Comisión de la Juventud del Congreso junto con planes de formación cívica y preparación para las elecciones generales de 2027.
De acuerdo con Omar Alexander Gereda Franco, jefe del Departamento de Inscripción de Ciudadanos y Elaboración de Padrones del TSE, el padrón electoral sumaba 10.095.713 ciudadanos inscritos, de los cuales 2.405.563 correspondían a personas menores de 30 años. Ese grupo representa cerca del 24% de los ciudadanos empadronados en el país.
Gereda explicó que en el proceso electoral de 2023 se registraron aproximadamente 2,5 millones de ciudadanos empadronados de entre 18 y 30 años, dentro de un total de 10,9 millones de electores. La comparación con el registro actualizado para 2026 muestra una disminución en ese segmento de la población electoral.
La reunión de trabajo de la comisión se centró en la participación juvenil en las últimas elecciones, los programas de educación cívica, el empadronamiento juvenil, la inclusión de personas con discapacidad y el presupuesto para iniciativas dirigidas a la juventud.
El diputado Héctor Aldana expresó su preocupación por la falta de información dirigida a grupos juveniles para incentivar su participación en temas electorales. También señaló la necesidad de aprovechar con mayor fuerza las redes sociales y otras herramientas digitales para conectar con ese sector.
La jefa del Departamento de Inscripción de Ciudadanos y Elaboración de Padrones, Virginia García, informó que a finales de julio será lanzada la campaña Alianza Juvenil por la Democracia, orientada a la capacitación y formación de jóvenes voluntarios que participarán en las Juntas Receptoras de Votos en los próximos procesos electorales. Según la representante del programa de Voluntariado Cívico, el proyecto busca fomentar la participación de la juventud y de las personas con discapacidad en los asuntos democráticos del país.
Las autoridades del TSE buscarán apoyo de las organizaciones políticas para fortalecer las secretarías de juventud y ampliar los procesos de capacitación dirigidos a esa población.
Según lo expuesto en la reunión, en los próximos meses se prevé el desarrollo de campañas de empadronamiento y actividades de formación ciudadana enfocadas en jóvenes, con apoyo de universidades, organizaciones sociales e instituciones públicas. Los diputados también plantearon ampliar las oportunidades de participación para jóvenes con discapacidad y promover la participación ciudadana de cara a los comicios de 2027.
En una segunda reunión, la comisión citó a María Victoria Peneleu, viceministra de Previsión Social y Empleo del Ministerio de Trabajo; a Elizabeth Ugalde, viceministra de Desarrollo de la Micro, Pequeña y Mediana Empresa del Ministerio de Economía; y a delegados de la Dirección de Atención y Asistencia al Consumidor para fiscalizar el avance del programa Mi Primer Empleo y otras acciones orientadas a ampliar las oportunidades laborales para los jóvenes.
La funcionaria añadió que el programa mantiene alianzas con 60 empresas en todo el país mediante un esquema de financiamiento compartido: el Estado absorbe el 51% del salario mínimo y las empresas participantes cubren el 49% restante. Durante cuatro meses, los beneficiarios reciben capacitación y adquieren experiencia laboral para facilitar su incorporación al mercado de trabajo.
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