Asra Nomani: 106 Far-Left Groups’ Red-Green Alliance Targets Ports

Communist revolutionaries, socialist activists and pro-Palestinian organizers representing a coalition of 106 groups are preparing a coordinated display of unrest Friday at ports stretching from Oakland, California, to Mumbai, India. The demonstrations are expected to target Israel and what organizers call “capitalist barbarism.”

A News Media investigation indicates that the global mobilization is not a spontaneous wave of anger. Instead, organizations within the so-called “red-green” alliance of communist, socialist and pro-Palestinian movements have spent the past week aligning strikes, rallies and media outreach under a shared international strategy.

The organizers are directing activity at 113 ports in 22 countries and regions across five continents. Their goal is to turn major commercial shipping centers into platforms for a synchronized campaign against Israel, NATO, Western military policy and the global capitalist order.

Promoted under the banner “No Harbour for Genocide,” the planned actions are mapped through a detailed online tracker. Listed locations include Genoa and Livorno in Italy, Piraeus near Athens, Hamburg, Tangier, Veracruz, Oakland and Marseille.

That broad geographic reach is central to the campaign. By coordinating events across continents, organizers can present individual protests as part of a single worldwide movement with a unified message.

Within the “red-green” alliance, “red” refers to the far left, while “green” denotes Islam. The network is also preparing a new series of French demonstrations, known as “Acte III,” scheduled for Saturday.

In the United States, the international campaign is expected to reach the San Francisco Bay Area, where ILWU Local 10 is mobilizing members for the protest. Online records show that an anonymous buyer registered NoHarbourForGenocide.com in March 2025, according to online records.

The campaign’s digital infrastructure underscores the extent of its preparation, giving organizers a central hub for coordinating events intended to take place simultaneously in multiple countries.

The same communist and pro-Palestinian network is supporting demonstrations in India, Germany, Spain, Albania, the United States, Australia and other nations. Organizers often describe the actions as “youth” or “student” protests, but a News Media investigation found that youth groups account for only about one-third of the organizations active in hotspots such as France.

The port campaign marks an expansion of the movement’s international playbook. Rather than concentrating only on streets and university campuses, organizers are targeting the commercial infrastructure that keeps the global economy moving.

Communist and far-left dockworker unions and organizations are joining anti-Israel groups that have used maritime operations—including the “Global Sumud Flotilla”—to stage protests at sea. Those flotillas typically end when Israeli forces board the vessels and detain demonstrators, among them environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Detainees have often shared selfie-style photos and videos from both the water and shore, extending the demonstrations across social media.

These confrontations at sea have created a template for broader international activism, merging maritime disruption, street demonstrations and online publicity into a single campaign.

The planned actions also illustrate how activists are seeking to use transportation networks—including streets, bridges, tunnels, ports, docks and waterways—to disrupt civic life. During the past week, activists linked to the Global Sumud Flotilla used three sailboats to approach the Sunaid X, a ship that local unions said was supplying the U.S. military facility at Sigonella, Sicily. The incident was described as an attempted maritime blockade. Italian authorities confiscated the boats and referred the activists to prosecutors over alleged disruption of a public service.

As dockworkers prepare for Friday’s demonstrations, an international publicity effort is taking shape away from the waterfront. That campaign places the protests within a wider ideological confrontation, portraying communism and socialism as opposing forces to Western governments and capitalism.

Leading up to Friday’s events, U.S.-based pro-communist nonprofits funded by American-born Marxist technology entrepreneur Neville Roy Singham are helping promote the international campaign. Communist and pro-Palestinian groups, along with labor unions, are combining their efforts to generate sustained public attention.

Last week, BreakThrough News, a pro-communist media platform funded by Singham, reported on the international dockworkers’ strike, saying Italian port workers are “set to play a notable role.” It placed the waterfront action within a larger narrative about student activism, “austerity,” government policies and political unrest.

The publicity campaign also extends into a wider international ecosystem of pro-communist organizations, including one that has moved beyond publishing articles to raising financial support for the strikers.

Meanwhile, Progressive International, a pro-communist group that works closely with Singham-funded organizations, for example, supporting the Communist Party of Cuba, has published a series of reports and declarations promoting awareness of the dockworkers’ mobilization. It published a trade union statement, called the “Istanbul Declaration,” under the headline “Dockworkers will not become a link in the chain of their wars.”

The Istanbul Declaration, issued earlier this year, proclaimed: “We do not load death.”

Progressive International announced it has launched a strike fund to support dockworkers participating in the Oct. 30 action to “stop the imperialist war machine.” It connected the port campaign to political causes beyond Gaza, including opposition to American and European policies involving Iran, Yemen, Cuba, Venezuela and “imperialism’s entire coercive apparatus.”

The international messaging has been reinforced by communist organizations that make no secret of their revolutionary objectives, using the dockworkers’ campaign to advance a broader political struggle against capitalism.

On Monday, Italy’s Rete dei Comunisti, or Network of Communists, issued another declaration tagged “COMMUNIST NETWORK,” backing the strike and identifying the “task of communists” as fighting “barbarie capitalista,” or “capitalist barbarism.”

That day, Progressive International published an account of Italian dockworkers learning how to “jam the war marchine” in Livorno.

On Wednesday, 13 communist youth organizations from 12 European countries issued a joint statement explicitly supporting the international strike, saying, “We strengthen our struggle throughout Europe against our common enemy, capitalism,” and calling for a “socialist-communist society.”

Together, the statements show how communist organizations are connecting Friday’s labor action to the wave of student protests already unfolding across Europe, giving the separate demonstrations a common ideological message.

On the eve of the protests, pro-communist, anti-Israel groups are drumming up international publicity for the waterfront campaign.

Thursday, the Communist Party of Greece, known as KKE, said it’s dispatching its members to ports on Friday, declaring: “The communists support the strike.” Its mission states that its objective is the “overthrow of capitalism and the construction of socialism-communism.”

The Greek communists shared a statement from European Communist Action, in which the coalition of communist groups in Europe and the European Union linked the dockworkers’ action to student protests in France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Greece and Albania, connecting the pro-communist movements that have unfolded across the world in recent weeks.

Progressive International published a report Thursday on dockworkers in the Italian city of Gioia Tauro joining tomorrow’s protests after weeks of collaborating with anti-Israel activists on actions that have been “stopping war cargo.”

The campaign’s international publicity also extends to Jacobin, a socialist publication that carried an article by a far-left historian, Peter Cole, headlined “Dockworkers Worldwide Are About to Strike for Palestine.”

Singham, the Shanghai-based tech entrepreneuer, has been the subject of scrutiny over financial relationships involving nonprofit organizations and left-wing media operations that have coordinated and amplified anti-West protests in the U.S. and abroad over the past decade. In 2017, Singham sold a company that he founded, Thoughtworks, for an estimated $785 million and, according to a News Media investigation, pumped $285 million into a global network of pro-China, pro–communist organizations that have been key players in the past decade’s anti-West protests.

The network associated with him includes BreakThrough News, the People’s Forum and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His wife, Jodie Evans, is a co-founder of CodePink.

The Palestinian labor movement has provided the “green” in the international organizing network. This week, 17 Palestinian labor and professional organizations in the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel endorsed Friday’s mobilization, urging dockworkers and transportation workers to join actions opposing military shipments to Israel.

The signatories include the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, Palestinian Federation of Trade Unions, General Union of Palestinian Workers, General Union of Palestinian Women and Palestinian teachers’ and postal workers’ organizations.

Soon after, communist groups around the world shared the endorsement by the Palestinian groups, bringing the red-green alliance full circle.