Soros-backed, pro-China network fuels protests against US tech firms

As the U.S. and Israel continued associated subject strikes against Iran earlier this week, a pistillate pounded connected a piñata resembling President Donald Trump arsenic a tiny assemblage cheered and clapped.

But the country wasn’t successful Tehran.

It was Aventura, Florida, extracurricular Miami, adjacent the caller office of Palantir Technologies, a authorities contractor that is supporting U.S. subject and migration enforcement operations, including "Project Maven," an endeavor that uses artificial quality and instrumentality learning to analyse ample amounts of information rapidly for subject targeting and surveillance.

There, hammering distant astatine the piñata was Britney Cooke, a subordinate of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, a pro-China radical that openly says it wants an "international socialist revolution."

It has railed against "US hegemony" and the "American empire" and advocated for an "anti-imperialist wide revolutionary movement" successful the U.S. from wrong the "belly of the beast."

Britney Cooke, a subordinate of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, hits a piñata made to lucifer President Donald Trump, March 3, successful Aventura, Fla. Her radical seeks an "international socialist revolution." (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

While section sum framed the gathering arsenic "a crowd" of "protesters" with "plenty of passion,," a Fox News Digital reappraisal of nonprofit filings, assistance records and organizing materials indicates the lawsuit was orchestrated by groups operating wrong a sophisticated, donor-backed protestation web with ties to far-left tycoons George Soros and Neville Roy Singham. 

The findings rise questions astir however coordinated activistic campaigns — led by organizations, similar the Party for Socialism and Liberation, that openly reason U.S. "imperialism" and praise overseas adversarial regimes — are mobilizing against American subject contractors amid escalating struggle overseas and intensifying technological contention with China. A spokesperson for Palantir declined to comment. Singham hasn't responded to requests for comment.

"This benignant of fake activism disturbs me," said Chuck Flint, president of the Alliance for IRS Accountability and a erstwhile adjunct authoritative successful Florida. "These groups are helping China and hurting the United States."

"This is surely not grassroots activism," Flint told Fox News Digital. "It looks much similar a overseas power cognition that is really weaponizing American taxation laws to undermine American nationalist information interests."

He noted, "It's coming astatine a clip erstwhile U.S. troops are relying connected Palantir exertion successful progressive combat close now."

A Fox News Digital probe recovered the protestation campaigns run done respective hubs that bring far-left groups together, forming an ecosystem of organizations targeting exertion firms connected aggregate issues, from migration enforcement to predictive policing, subject exertion and health-care information systems.

The operations down these campaigns bespeak what experts picture arsenic a nonrecreational protestation infrastructure, including tax-exempt nonprofit organizations, integer messaging toolkits and coordinated protestation actions crossed aggregate cities, with shared leadership, research, messaging and organizing.

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Romeo Umana, center, a subordinate of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and Britney Cooke, right, a subordinate of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, a socialist organization, protestation adjacent Palantir's caller office successful Florida. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

In caller years, this web has organized protests against companies including Amazon, Google and Microsoft implicit their enactment with U.S. subject and instrumentality enforcement agencies.

As China wages an AI contention with the U.S., the web has besides supported regimes with well-documented histories of assertive surveillance of their citizens and suppression of quality rights.

The Florida objection was co-organized by the section section of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, a protestation limb of a web funded by Singham, an American-born, self-described Marxist based successful Shanghai, openly supporting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). 

Another radical starring the protests against exertion companies — and the objection successful Florida this week — is Phoenix-based Mijente, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that has received $1.6 cardinal successful backing since 2020 from 1 of the Open Society philanthropies established by Soros. 

Open Society Foundations has supported Mijente's advocacy for "civil and quality rights." In 2023, Open Society said its assistance to Mijente was to "support the grantees [sic] societal payment activities."It didn't respond to a petition for comment.

In its past taxation filing, Mijente reported $2.6 cardinal successful revenues. Mijente leads  campaigns called #NoTechForICE and "Take Back Tech," which plans its 3rd league successful mid-April successful Atlanta to representation its strategy for a "winning movement" against the "Tech Oligarchy." 

Its "Take Back Tech" cosponsor is the Center for Media Justice, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based successful Oakland, Calif., with $4.3 cardinal successful revenues, according to its astir caller taxation filing, and donations from traditionally Democratic philanthropies, including $2 cardinal implicit the years from Soros' Open Society network.

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Socialist organizations organized a protestation extracurricular Palantir headquarters, March 3, successful Aventura, Fla. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

Outside the entranceway to the Aventura Mall, 1 of the Mijente leaders, Cathy Carrillo, handed the microphone to Romeo Umana, a person with the Miami section of Party for Socialism and Liberation, for his remarks, arsenic Cooke, from the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, stood successful the flanks.

These groups person protested unneurotic against Israel, ICE and the Trump administration.

In its sum of the Florida protest, one media outlet lone described Umana arsenic an "activist" with the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Cooke by her relation with an innocuous-sounding group, the Climate Organizing Hub.

On Tuesday, March 3, 2026, the Party for Socialism and Liberation co-organizes a protestation against Palantir's caller office successful Aventura, Fla. The enactment is portion of a pro-China web down protests against U.S. exertion firms. Roman Umana, a person with the Miami section of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, stands down a subordinate wearing the organization's chiseled reddish shirt. (AJ Skuy for Fox News Digital)

For years now, the Party for Socialism and Liberation has dispatched its members to beryllium ft soldiers astatine anti-U.S. protests, wearing chiseled agleam reddish shirts with the group's sanction crossed the front.

Reading his talking points from a cellphone, Umana said, "We garbage to fto Miami go the Silicon Valley of surveillance repression, truthful we accidental truly clearly, ‘No to wide surveillance! No to wide deportation! And nary to genocide!’"

The Party for Socialism and Liberation works intimately with different socialist organizations funded by Singham, including the People’s Forum Inc. and CodePink Women for Peace, which person lauded the autocratic governments starring China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Gaza and Venezuela, portion calling the U.S. "fascist." 

The Party for Socialism and Liberation runs a financially opaque operation, but the People's Forum, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that hosts galore of its events, reported $7 cardinal successful gross successful its past taxation filing.

TK, the erstwhile authoritative present starring IRS Accountability, said that the IRS should analyse the nonprofits successful this web to region their nonprofit designations, and helium said that the Justice Department should analyse the organizations for imaginable violations of laws that necessitate groups and individuals that correspond overseas interests to registry arsenic overseas lobbyists.

"You should not get a national taxation subsidy to bash the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party," helium said. "This is conscionable disguised activism that's truly overseas influence. It's not grassroots activism."

A radical of anti-ICE agitators artifact the entranceway to Palantir Technologies' offices, July 14, 2025, successful New York City. (Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu via Getty Images)

In precocious 2024, the People's Forum hosted an lawsuit with the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, blasting the "American empire," writing: "War, genocide and exploitation of labour and resources are sowed into the cloth of the American empire, irrespective of which ruling-class enactment holds statesmanlike office."

The promotion, advertised connected a Democratic platform, Action Network, continued: "The US is an force to Africans and Palestinians alike. It is of necessity that we colonized and oppressed peoples successful the belly of the beast, whose fates are tied to our homelands, physique a unified anti-imperialist wide revolutionary question to consolidate our powerfulness and enactment an extremity to US hegemony."

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As Tuesday's protestation came to an end, the event's leaders gathered their pre-printed signs, talker strategy and remnants of the piñata. The TV crews pulled distant aft documenting the group's "passion" disconnected U.S. Route 1.

Fox News Digital's Kyle Schmidbauer contributed to this report.

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