Global ‘Chaos Inc’ Network Reaches 101 Groups, Plans New Protests

The political drama surrounding “Chaos Inc.” is now being framed as a “rebellion … sweeping Europe.”

Just two days after an estimated 500,000 protesters filled streets across France—while clashes left parts of Paris and other cities burning—French activists are urging supporters to return Saturday, Oct. 24, for a new demonstration dubbed “Acte II.” A digital map tracking the plans currently lists 212 “mobilizations.”

Meanwhile, a growing coalition of communist, socialist and hard-left organizations is responding to a separate call for a coordinated European youth strike on Friday, Nov. 20.

A News Media investigation has identified 101 organizations in nine countries, including the United States, that are coordinating, organizing or promoting protests across Europe. That number has risen from the 54 groups identified on Monday, highlighting the expanding reach of the protest network.

Most of the organizations are led by adults. Only 33 groups—roughly one in three—are headed by students or young people. Together, they form part of what is described as a “red-green” alliance, bringing together Islamist organizations associated with green and far-left, communist and socialist groups associated with red.

The network also includes groups that openly use the “Antifa” label, including “Action AntiFa16,” which identifies itself in an announcement for the Acte II protest in Angoulême, France.

In the United States, figures connected to the “Chaos Inc.” network are amplifying the demonstrations. Hatem Bazian, a University of California at Berkeley academic and founder of the anti-Israel organizations Students for Justice in Palestine and American Muslims for Palestine, has shared videos from the protests.

Revealing the complex threads of the “red-green” alliance, Bazian drew connections between this year’s Oct. 17 riots in Paris, explosions at the Al Alhi Hospital in Gaza on Oct. 17, 2023, and protests on Oct. 17, 1961, in Paris by Algerian demonstrators , which led to a bloody and deadly confrontation with police. Hamas officials blamed Israel for the hospital deaths, while Israel attributed the blast to a failed, errant rocket launched from within Gaza by Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Bazian did not respond to a request for comment.

The unrest in Europe is also receiving sympathetic coverage from pro-communist organizations, including BreakThrough News, CodePink and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. The groups have received funding and support from Neville Roy Singham, an American-born technology tycoon who lives in Shanghai and has voiced support for the “new world order” promoted by the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

On Tuesday afternoon, BreakThrough News plans to host an online discussion titled “Europe’s Youth Uprising,” a headline that reflects how the outlet is presenting the demonstrations.

“A rebellion is sweeping Europe,” BreakThrough News declares.

“From student barricades in France, to Spain’s housing encampments, to Albanians marching to save their coastline from Jared Kushner, Gen Z is rising up against austerity, soaring rents, and governments pouring money into weapons and war instead of their future,” the outlet said.

BreakThrough News said the protests had spread “from Paris and Madrid to Lisbon and Tirana.” The outlet also announced that France-based journalist Rafael Karoubi would join hosts Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to discuss “what’s driving the uprising.”

In France, organizers are using 17octobregiletjaune.net to coordinate protest logistics, communications and participation. According to online records, an anonymous user registered the domain on Sept. 15. Amid curfews and other security measures imposed in response to the protests by French President Emmanuel Macron, the website promotes a new demand: “Macron must leave and make way for the people!”

Organizers are coordinating through a Telegram channel, where they share logistical information along with polished, ready-to-use protest graphics.

Following “Acte II,” organizers have scheduled another event for Oct. 31, labeled “Acte III,” with plans for “yellow vests, demonstrations and roundabouts, all over France.” Additional actions are listed for Nov. 5 and Nov. 14.

The calendar extends into 2027, with activities listed for April 3, described as “Noisy spring,” and May 29, billed as a “Day against agrochemistry.” The listed location for both events is “Everywhere in France.”

For the Nov. 20 event, another group of far-left organizations is promoting an “International Youth Strike” through a website calling for coordinated “demonstrations,” “walkouts,” “assemblies,” “actions,” “blockades and occupations.”

Their manifesto declares that “the exploitation of workers, climate breakdown and war are not failures of the system but the essence of capitalism.” In a press release, it says the struggle against “militarisation, rearmament, austerity and imperialism” is inseparable from the economic system supporting it and calls for “radical system change.”

The British organization “Socialist Students,” which describes itself as building the student fightback for “socialist change,” says it will participate in the Nov. 20 strike, “in coordination with 30 other European youth and student groups.

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A Socialist Students appeal urges young people to join “a movement for socialist change,” while another campaign statement declares: “Our fight for socialism is based on Marxism” and argues that “workers and young people must actively fight and organise.”

An unidentified person registered the youthstrike.org domain on Aug. 2, according to online records.

WHO’S WHO IN THE EXPANDING ‘GLOBAL CHAOS INC.’ NETWORK (101)

ACTE II, OCT. 24 – NEW (14)

1. Coordination régionale Bloquons tout Île-de-FranceÎle-de-France Regional “Block Everything” Coordination – Regional “Block Everything” organization behind the platform promoting “Acte II.”
2. Peuple RÉVOLTÉPeople in Revolt Organization helping operate the “Acte II” platform.
3. Now! Civic movement participating in the “Acte II” platform.
4. Let’s Get Indignant, Block Everything Protest collective promoting “Acte II.”
5. Coordination nationale lycéenne – National High School Students’ Coordination New national high-school coordination calling students into the streets Oct. 24 for “Acte II.”

Angoulême, France

1. New Anticapitalist Party–Charente (NPA 16) Local NPA chapter mobilizing for Acte II.
2. Collaborator on the Angoulême Acte II announcement.
3. House of Peoples and Peace Angoulême organization collaborating on the Acte II call.
4. Fanfare en lutte d’Angoulême – Angoulême Marching Band in Struggle Local activist collective collaborating on Acte II.
5. Révolution Permanente Angoulême — Permanent Revolution–Angoulême – Local chapter of Révolution Permanente, collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.
6. Organisation de Solidarité Trans (OST) Angoulême — Trans Solidarity Organization–Angoulême – Local organization listed as an Acte II collaborator.

Caen, France

1. Collaborator on an “ACTE II — 24 OCTOBRE” announcement.
2. Caen in Struggle – Local organization collaborating on Acte II.

Solidarité Étudiante 14 — Student Solidarity 14 – Calvados student organization collaborating on the Oct. 24 mobilization.

NOV. 20 INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

Belgium (3)

1. Belgian youth organization associated with the Workers’ Party.
2. Belgian socialist youth organization.
3. Belgian organization publishing and promoting the International Youth Strike manifesto.

France (1)

1. Mouvement National Lycéen — STUDENT/YOUTH: French high-school organization identified in the European Nov. 20 coalition.

Germany (6)

1. German school-strike network mobilizing for Nov. 20.
2. German socialist youth organization involved in the international organizing process.
3. Linksjugend [‘solid] Youth organization associated with Die Linke.
4. German socialist university organization.
5. , ( Socialist German Workers Youth.
6. Sozialistische Organisation Solidarität German socialist organization mobilizing around Nov. 20.

Ireland (1)

1. Irish socialist organization promoting the international mobilization.

Italy (4)

1. Italian student network helping build the international strike.
2. Italian high-school student organization promoting Nov. 20.
3. Italian university network promoting the strike.
4. Italian labor confederation whose Nov. 20 general strike converges with the student mobilization.

Spain (1)

1. Spanish student organization identified in the international network.

United Kingdom (9)

1. Promoting the Nov. 20 international strike.
2. Promoting the wider European mobilization.
3. The coordinating coalition behind the Nov. 20 strike says student and youth organizations across Europe are organizing demonstrations, walkouts, assemblies, blockades and occupations. Its manifesto says exploitation, climate breakdown and war are the “essence of capitalism,” calls NATO an instrument of “imperial interests” that “should be dissolved,” and demands “radical system change.”
4. Organizational supporter of the Nov. 20 actions.
5. Socialist party promoting the international strike.
6. British organizer advocating a “socialist future.”
7. Promoting Nov. 20 student mobilization.
8. @ucunion The largest trade union and professional association for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers & academic-related staff in UK “Further Education” and “Higher Education.”
9. British youth organization identified among supporters.

Amplifiers (8)

1. The U.S. organization has explicitly connected the French protests to its own planned Washington mobilization. “From France to the United States, the message is clear,” CODEPINK said, before promoting its Nov. 10-12 “Taxpayer Uprising” demanding that federal spending go toward education, healthcare and housing rather than the military.
2. An international socialist organization whose national affiliates include Britain’s Socialist Party and Ireland’s Militant Left. Its international website is promoting the Nov. 20 youth walkout under the campaign slogan
3. The international socialist organization says and that it “wholeheartedly” supports the Nov. 20 strike. ISA says its members have helped organize Germany’s anti-conscription school strikes and describes imperialism as the “highest stage of capitalism.”
4. The Houston chapter of the U.S. Party for Socialism and Liberation is amplifying the French protest movement.
5. The international organization explicitly grouped the current protests in in an Oct. 16 briefing and asked how the “new rebellions” could acquire organized political power. Most significantly, it said:
6. A European coalition calling for demonstrations and actions around Nov. 20 under the slogan It says it supports students “refusing” militarization and calls on social movements, unions, civil-society groups, political organizations and parliamentarians to mobilize around the student strike.
7. The international media outlet amplified the French demonstrations with Oct. 17 coverage of clashes, fires and arrests in Paris, Lyon and other cities. This is evidence of .
8. A global organization that describes itself as a movement to and says it is part of the Stop ReArm Europe campaign. It is explicitly promoting the Nov. 20 International Youth Strike and urging supporters to “join this resistance.”

FRANCE — ORIGINAL NETWORK (54)

1. Organisation communiste révolutionnaire — REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNIST: Communist organization involved in protests.
2. Parti communiste français French Communist Party whose leaders and activists joined the demonstrations.
3. Parti des Indigènes de la République Political organization that defends the student revolt.
4. Parti de l’égalité socialiste Socialist organization advocating workers’ action committees.
5. British organization that connects the French protests to capitalism, imperialism and Palestine.
6. Révolution Permanente Revolutionary socialist organization promoting student-worker mobilization.
7. Socialist outlet framing the French protests around capitalism, austerity and militarization.

Palestine-solidarity organizations

1. Union juive française pour la paix French Jewish organization that publicizes support for the protesting students.
2. French Palestine organization that amplified protest-related material.

Labor and professional organizations

1. CGT Éduc’action CGT’s education-sector organization.
2. CFDT Éducation Formation Recherche Publiques — LABOR: Education and research union supporting the student movement.
3. Major French labor confederation involved in the October mobilizations.
4. Revolutionary-syndicalist union that declared students were “right to revolt.”
5. Confédération paysanne Called agricultural workers into the Oct. 17 mobilization.
6. Education and public-sector union federation.
7. Force Ouvrière’s education federation.
8. Force Ouvrière National labor confederation.
9. SUD éducation Left-wing education union.
10. Secondary-school personnel union.
11. Left-wing labor federation.
12. National autonomous trade-union federation.

Advocacy, environmental and protest organizations

1. Reported on police treatment of minors during the demonstrations.
2. Connected the mobilization to austerity and economic policy.
3. Mobilization network that encouraged participation in Oct. 17.
4. Environmental direct-action movement appearing in the protest ecosystem.
5. National parents’ federation that called members to demonstrate.
6. Decentralized protest movement whose Oct. 17 mobilization converged with the students.
7. Private-hire drivers’ coalition promoting participation.
8. Les Soulèvements de la Terre Movement that celebrated the student revolt and called for antifascist mobilization.
9. Supported students and criticized police repression.
10. ( Antiracism organization involved in the wider coalition.
11. Antiracism organization involved in supporting the movement.

International amplifiers

1. New York-based nonprofit amplifying the French protests internationally.
2. France-based organization connecting French and Indian protest messaging. Partnered with the People’s Forum in Manhattan.