Investigation opens into Neville Roy Singham allegedly pro-China network

Part 1 of a five-part Fox News Digital collection investigation follows the cash that created the “Revolutionary Base” for a transnational network of organizations allegedly waging cognitive warfare on U.S. residents on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

As far-left American activists flood Cuba to help its flailing communist regime, U.S. officers have opened a sprawling investigation into an anti-America, pro-China nonprofit network solid throughout a marriage celebration in late February 2017, off Runaway Bay on Jamaica’s northern coast.

There, beneath a cover of palm bushes, an elite cadre of activists, intellectuals, celebrities, political organizers and comrades in a worldwide Marxist-Leninist-Maoist motion assembled to have a good time the “Revolutionary Love” of two luminaries, each 62 on the time: Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon dwelling in Shanghai, and Jodie Evans, a red-haired veteran activist and co-founder of CodePink Women for Peace.

Like the opening scene of “The Godfather,” the place highly effective households consolidate energy, the marriage celebration was about way more than the union of two folks. 

Over 4 days of dancing, lectures and late-night conversations in venues from the Flavor Beach Bar to Sharkey’s Seafood, celebrating the bond of “Roy and Jodie,” alliances had been fashioned that may form protests, unrest and political agitation over the subsequent decade, from the fiery 2020 scenes in Minneapolis to demonstrations in the present day supporting the regimes in Cuba and Iran.

That weekend, Vijay Prashad, a tutorial described within the official wedding itinerary as a “Marxist intellectual,” spoke on a panel, “The Future of the Left.” Medea Benjamin, Evans’ buddy and CodePink co-founder, danced barefoot on the marriage ceremony in a shiny Indian outfit.

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Mao’s Blueprint for the ‘People’s War’

According to sources, the marriage attendees invoked the teachings of Mao Zedong, the twentieth century Chinese Communist Party chief who dominated China with an iron fist, impressed by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and so they mentioned the right way to mobilize the plenty to wage a Maoist “People’s War.” 

“The revolutionary war is a war of the masses,” Mao stated in 1934.

Many had been themselves relics of the Cold War, rising up earlier than the Soviet Union was dismantled in 1989.

A monthslong Fox News Digital investigation pinpoints the Jamaica marriage ceremony as a place to begin for launching a network of organizations that’s in the present day waging a brand new “People’s War” on America, aligned with the Chinese Communist Party’s geopolitical ambitions to eclipse the U.S. as a superpower by way of financial applications just like the “Belt and Road” initiative, realizing the imaginative and prescient of China’s ideological godfather, Mao, by way of commerce partnerships, financial offers and pro-China propaganda.

National safety consultants name it cognitive warfare.

Over nearly a decade, Fox News Digital has realized, Singham and Evans have activated a worldwide network that now numbers an estimated 2,000 hard-left organizations that parrot anti-U.S. propaganda supporting autocratic regimes main China, Russia, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela and Gaza. Within activist circles, far-left critics check with leftists who align with authoritarian regimes as “tankies.” Many teams and leaders from Singham’s network, together with Evans and Benjamin, are a part of the pro-communist convoy now in Cuba.

Fox News Digital has established a documented $278 million that flowed from Singham into organizations that “sow discord” within the U.S., as House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith put it lately at a listening to on overseas malign affect within the nonprofit business.

According to the info, Singham created a base from which the U.S. is now one of many world’s most prolific exporters of radical pro-China communist ideology. Singham and Evans did not reply to requests for remark.

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Writer Xi Van Fleet survived Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution. (Xi Van Fleet)

‘Mao’s Dream for a People’s Army’

Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese American who survived Mao’s purge of innocents through the Cultural Revolution, informed Fox News Digital that Singham and Evans are following the communist dictator’s playbook.

“Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jody Evans, are bringing into the 21st century Mao’s dream for a People’s War,” Van Fleet stated.

Mao’s doctrine of the People’s War emphasised long-term battle by way of decentralized networks, ideological indoctrination and the mobilization of civilian establishments slightly than direct navy confrontation. 

“They are bringing to the streets America’s worst nightmare of a Red Army that is seeking to destroy the United States and make China more competitive on the world stage,” stated Van Fleet, the writer of “Made in America: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Greatest Threat.”

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Neville Roy Singham advocates the communist ideology of Mao Zedong, founding father of the Chinese Communist Party. (Jim Spellman/WireImage)

‘Adorable Troublemaker’

Singham grew up conversant in Mao’s dictates.

He was born in mid-May 1954 in Middletown, Conn., the son of Archibald Singham, a Marxist-Leninist scholar of Sri Lankan heritage, and Shirley Hume, who additionally adhered to far-left ideology. By his own account, he joined the League of Revolutionary Black Workers as a teen and labored at a Chrysler meeting line in Detroit. 

FBI brokers as soon as tried to interview him on the Chrysler Eldon Avenue Plant, noting of their report that he was “potentially dangerous” due to his “background, emotional instability” or function in teams concerned in dangerous actions “inimical to U.S.,” based on a replica of the FBI report launched by the House Ways and Means Committee.

According to the FBI report, Singham informed the brokers, “I don’t want to talk to you,” and walked away.

Singham quietly constructed his Thoughtworks expertise firm by way of the Nineties. Meanwhile, Evans was marketing campaign supervisor for Democratic politician Jerry Brown’s shedding 1992 California governor’s race. 

After they exchanged vows in Jamaica, Evans referred to as Singham her “adorable troublemaker,” her “darling Roy” and “adorable husband” in Instagram posts. 

5 Rings, 2,000 Groups

Fox News Digital analyzed 223 transactions that moved $591 million in complete throughout 5 continents from 2017 by way of 2025, the most recent 12 months obtainable, and located the cash flows by way of 5 concentric rings of an ideological pipeline that spreads pro-China propaganda:

• Level 1: Singham allegedly arrange a system to funnel tax-exempt {dollars} by way of two obvious shell firms and a donor-advised fund, GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc., which is carefully related to Goldman Sachs. Wealthy patrons can conceal donations as nameless, consultants say. Revealed right here for the primary time, Goldman Sachs spokesman Tony Fratto stated the corporate’s philanthropy arm “terminated” Singham’s donor-advised fund in February 2024.
• Level 2: Singham poured a documented $278 million from the three organizations into six nonprofits – 5 created nearly in a single day with Evans on the board of a number of and the sixth being Evans’ longtime agitation challenge, CodePink. The six organizations are BreakThrough BT Media, CodePink, Justice and Education Fund Inc., People’s Forum Inc., People’s Support Foundation Ltd. and Tricontinental Ltd.
• Level 3: Those six nonprofits have pumped about $163 million into 52 organizations – together with themselves – and, importantly, 5 areas recognized solely by geography.
• Level 4: Over this era, 11 teams have distributed $150 million into 4 nonprofits and 5 geographic areas, together with $23 million to Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Level 5: The network doesn’t cease the place the cash path ends, as a result of 67 core teams companion with a whole lot of teams worldwide, making a network of about 2,000 organizations worldwide.

On April 16, 2016, Jodie Evans and Neville Roy Singham attended the premiere of “Shadow World” on the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival at Regal Battery Park 11 in New York City. (Jim Spellman/WireImage)

Singham Emerges

Last November, Singham walked by way of the doorways of the Golden Tulip resort in Shanghai for one in every of his uncommon public appearances, a two-day “Global South Academic Forum” conference blessed by the nation’s ruling Chinese Communist Party, which the federal government formally calls the Communist Party of China, or CPC.

Videos and pictures from the convention present a uncommon public window into the messaging, symbolism and members of a network that in any other case operates opaquely.

The opening speak featured Prashad, Singham’s marriage ceremony visitor, releasing a 172-page treatise written by Singham, chairman of the “International Advisory Board” of Tricontinental, a assume tank Singham had funded and one of many convention sponsors. Another co-sponsor was the East China Normal University, which is run by the Communist Party of China.

In the report, “80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War: Acknowledging Who Truly Saved Human History and Restoring Historical Truth,” which Fox News Digital has uncovered, Singham rewrote the historical past of World War II to raise the function of China and the “Global South” in defeating Nazi Germany.

On web page 61, Singham blasted the West however held out hope it might be defeated. 

“Socialist peoples and leadership can defeat imperialism in any form – fascist then, hyper-imperialist now – despite every material disadvantage,” he argued. “That victory required genius, courage and unimaginable sacrifice. It also proved something imperialism cannot accept: ordinary people, organised and led with brilliance, can defeat any empire.”

Singham then quoted Mao, saying that the brutal chief “crystallized this truth” in his guide “On Protracted War,” when he wrote, “The richest source of power to wage war lies in the masses of the people.”

In the paper, Singham diminishes the deaths of U.S. and British troops and repair members, writing that the Soviets and China actually gained the warfare with, “59.8% socialists dead, 13.1% colonised peoples dead – only 1% Anglo-Americans dead.”

He additionally condemns British chief Winston Churchill’s “genocidal impulses.”

About 23 minutes into his remarks, Prashad welcomed Singham on stage with two different colleagues and Singham took a bow to the applause of the viewers members and stated, “Thank you, comrades, friends.” 

In a video of the event, unearthed by Fox News Digital, Singham railed in opposition to “the fascist lie” of the West that “there is a battle between fascism, democracy and communism.”

Singham articulated a view of world energy that challenges the Western understanding of World War II and the postwar worldwide order.

“Fascism is actually a face of capitalism and imperialism, as is colonialism. These are the three faces of a system that is quite now becoming very dangerous for us.”

He didn’t determine “us.” 

In the clip, Singham describes a “rules-based international order” that he argues is constructed on a “lie” about democracy. The excerpt is included for the aim of reporting and analyzing the content material of his remarks.

He talked concerning the Americans and “their” failure to carry fascists accountable from the “anti-fascist” warfare. 

“If we want to, therefore, have a new world order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War II,” he stated, utilizing the acronym for the Communist Party of China, referred to as CCP within the West.

He ended by recognizing Soviet and Chinese fighters who died throughout World War II, and he urged the group to “honor” them for his or her underappreciated sacrifice. 

“China has a very important role, and we, in this forum, have a very important role,” Singham stated, “that to envision a new order, a new multi-polarity order, requires, quite frankly, the deconstruction, a restorationist history of what really happened, who really suffered. Of those who died, almost 70% of the people who died in World War II were in China and the Soviet Union.”

The feedback replicate a broader ideology that reframes historic occasions and positions China’s communist system as the higher different to Western “democracy.”

Marxist tycoon Neville Roy Singham stands (seventh from proper) with members of a Global South Academic Forum he co-sponsored with Tricontinental Institute and East China Nomal University, which is managed by the Ministry of Education and the Chinese Communist Party. His buddy and Tricontinental govt Vijay Prashad stands close by (sixth from left), together with Lu Xinyu, a dean and professor at East China Normal University (third from proper). (Global South Academic Forum)

Asked about Singham, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C., informed Fox News Digital, “I am not familiar with the specifics of this particular case.”

Pengyu added, “As a matter of principle, however, China consistently upholds the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries.”

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President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Getty Images)

Asymmetric War Machine

As a part of this investigation, Fox News Digital tracked road protests from New York City to Berkeley, Calif., and constructed a database with hundreds of pages of IRS tax filings, company information, social media posts, web site content material and different materials. 

The investigation analyzed 1,663 occasions the People’s Forum hosted from early August 2018 and its most up-to-date gatherings early this 12 months. The occasions included teachers and researchers from at the very least 225 faculties and universities which can be being analyzed individually.

The scale of what the couple constructed goes far past something beforehand documented, revealing a network that acts like a transnational, uneven propaganda machine. It incorporates a central headquarters, substantial warfare chest, outlined command construction, propaganda wing and street-level foot troopers. Its operations lengthen past the United States into a number of abroad theaters.

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‘Terrorist’

At a protest in Lower Manhattan in early January, David Chung, organizing director on the People’s Forum, and Hannah Priscilla Craig, artwork, tradition and communications director on the People’s Forum, walked away from requests for interviews.

When approached by Fox News Digital on the People’s Forum places of work in Manhattan, Brian Becker, a founding father of the Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition, with operations on the People’s Forum, referred to as the inquiries “witch hunting” and referred to a reporter as “a terrorist.” 

Manolo De Los Santos, govt director of the People’s Forum, in contrast the scrutiny to the period of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who performed congressional hearings into communist infiltration within the U.S. within the Fifties.

Becker’s son, Ben Becker, editor-in-chief of BreakThrough BT News, a propaganda wing of Singham’s network, watched silently.

Soon after, in mid-February, the Global South Academic Forum launched a video, “The World Is Small, The South Is Vast,” that includes highlights from final fall’s convention at Shanghai’s Golden Tulip resort. The video underscores how the Singham network has created a “Revolutionary Base” by which educational dialogue blends with historic symbols tied to revolutionary communism.

In the final seconds of the video, Singham stands at consideration as a worldwide communist anthem, “The Internationale,” performs, his comrades punching the air with their fists in solidarity.

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Nikolas Lanam, Kiera McDonald, Hannah Brennan, Mitch Picasso and Brooke Curto contributed to this report.