Fox News Digital traces how a transnational network of 50 groups mobilizes around school protests, only 1/3 are youth groups
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.