America’s Socialists Mobilize for Maduro Within Hours Calling For ‘Emergency’ Protests

While U.S. forces carried out a major mission to capture Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro, almost simultaneously a tightly organized left-wing activist network in the United States launched a rapid protest and media campaign against the operation, Fox News reports. This network, made up of self-described Marxist, socialist, and communist groups, has spent years leading “anti-war” and “anti-racism” actions while pushing a consistent narrative that portrays the United States as imperialist and Maduro as a victim of U.S. aggression. They previously mobilized around protests after 9/11, the 2020 death of George Floyd, antisemitic campus encampments following the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack, and recurring “Hands off Venezuela” efforts.

As U.S. special operations forces moved into Venezuela, the network’s media arms quickly pushed out early video of American strikes and branded the mission an “illegal bombing campaign of Caracas.” Within minutes, prominent organizers such as Manolo De Los Santos of The People’s Forum, along with groups like the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, began circulating posters and social media messages calling for “EMERGENCY” protests in New York City, Washington, D.C., and scores of other cities. The speed and discipline of this reaction, with synchronized talking points and coordinated calls to action, led experts to describe it as a pre-planned influence operation rather than a spontaneous outpouring of dissent.

At the center of this system is the International Peoples’ Assembly, an international coordination hub that links communist and socialist parties, activist organizations, and state-aligned media outlets, including the Venezuelan Francisco de Miranda Front and media projects like People’s Dispatch. According to Fox News, members of the Assembly “operate as ideological foot soldiers, advancing a foreign-aligned narrative during moments of conflict, seeking to fracture public consensus, delegitimize U.S. action and apply pressure from within.”

Federal lawmakers have launched an inquiry into this socialist network’s connections to Neville Roy Singham, an American tech entrepreneur who moved to Shanghai following the sale of his software company. Observers contend that his recent ventures appear to align with the agenda of the Chinese Communist Party.

According to Fox News, “by 3:21 a.m., Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a research institute chaired by Singham that examines issues through the lens of ‘national liberation Marxism,’ posted a message, denouncing the military action, declaring, ‘Down with US imperialism.’ Within a few hours, at 6:09 a.m., CodePink, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Singham’s wife, Jodie Evans, condemned the ‘terrorist United States…’”

According to Fox News, Democratic Socialists of America figures, including Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, condemned the mission as “illegal” and framed it as a war for oil and “regime change,” while newly inaugurated New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani echoed the network’s language, calling the “military capture” of Maduro an “act of war” and “blatant pursuit of regime change.” Their public statements closely paralleled the positions of China and Russia, which likewise condemned the operation as a “blatant use of force” and an “act of aggression.”

Within hours, the pro-Maduro network was flooding social media with tightly edited protest clips, livestreams, and graphic propaganda aimed at the Trump administration, highlighting marches in front of the White House and in Times Square, where speakers denounced the mission as a “capitalist war” and an “imperialist” kidnapping of Maduro. Organizers boasted that overnight coordination had produced demonstrations in more than 100 cities across the country and warned that these protests were only a preview of larger confrontations to come.