Investigation opens into Neville Roy Singham allegedly pro-China network

Washington, D.C. – Half 1 of a five-part Fox Information Digital sequence investigation follows the cash that created the “Revolutionary Base” for a transnational community of organizations allegedly waging cognitive warfare on U.S. residents on behalf of the Chinese language Communist Celebration.

As far-left American activists flood Cuba to assist its flailing communist regime, U.S. officers have opened a sprawling investigation into an anti-America, pro-China nonprofit community 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 world 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 residing in Shanghai, and Jodie Evans, a red-haired veteran activist and co-founder of CodePink Girls for Peace.

Just 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 Taste Seaside Bar to Sharkey’s Seafood, celebrating the bond of “Roy and Jodie,” alliances had been shaped that will form protests, unrest and political agitation over the subsequent decade, from the fiery 2020 scenes in Minneapolis to demonstrations immediately supporting the regimes in Cuba and Iran.

That weekend, Vijay Prashad, an educational described within the official wedding itinerary as a “Marxist mental,” spoke on a panel, “The Way forward for the Left.” Medea Benjamin, Evans’ good friend and CodePink co-founder, danced barefoot on the wedding ceremony in a shiny Indian outfit.

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Mao’s Blueprint for the ‘Individuals’s Warfare’

In line with sources, the marriage attendees invoked the teachings of Mao Zedong, the twentieth century Chinese language Communist Celebration chief who dominated China with an iron fist, impressed by Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, and so they mentioned how you can mobilize the plenty to wage a Maoist “Individuals’s Warfare.” 

“The revolutionary struggle is a struggle of the plenty,” Mao mentioned in 1934.

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

A months-long Fox Information Digital investigation pinpoints the Jamaica wedding ceremony as a place to begin for launching a community of organizations that’s immediately waging a brand new “Individuals’s Warfare” on America, aligned with the Chinese language Communist Celebration’s geopolitical ambitions to eclipse the U.S. as a superpower by financial packages just like the “Belt and Street” initiative, realizing the imaginative and prescient of China’s ideological godfather, Mao, by commerce partnerships, financial offers and pro-China propaganda.

Nationwide safety consultants name it cognitive warfare.

Over nearly a decade, Fox Information Digital has discovered, Singham and Evans have activated a world community 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. Inside activist circles, far-left critics seek advice from leftists who align with authoritarian regimes as “tankies.” Many teams and leaders from Singham’s community, together with Evans and Benjamin, are a part of the pro-communist convoy now in Cuba.

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

In line with the information, 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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Author Xi Van Fleet survived Mao’s brutal Cultural Revolution. (Xi Van Fleet)

‘Mao’s Dream for a Individuals’s Military’

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

“Neville Roy Singham and his spouse, Jody Evans, are bringing into the twenty first century Mao’s dream for a Individuals’s Warfare,” Van Fleet mentioned.

Mao’s doctrine of the Individuals’s Warfare emphasised long-term battle by decentralized networks, ideological indoctrination and the mobilization of civilian establishments slightly than direct army confrontation. 

“They’re bringing to the streets America’s worst nightmare of a Purple Military that’s looking for to destroy america and make China extra aggressive on the world stage,” mentioned Van Fleet, the creator of “Made in America: The Hidden Historical past of How the U.S. Enabled Communist China and Created Our Best Menace.”

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

‘Lovable Troublemaker’

Singham grew up aware of Mao’s dictates.

He was born in mid-Might 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 Staff as a young person 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 “probably harmful” due to his “background, emotional instability” or function in teams concerned in dangerous actions “inimical to U.S.,” in response to a duplicate of the FBI report launched by the Home Methods and Means Committee.

In line with the FBI report, Singham advised the brokers, “I don’t need to speak to you,” and walked away.

Singham quietly constructed his Thoughtworks know-how firm by the Nineteen Nineties. In the meantime, 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 “cute troublemaker,” her “darling Roy” and “adorable husband” in Instagram posts. 

5 Rings, 2,000 Teams

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

• Degree 1: Singham allegedly arrange a system to funnel tax-exempt {dollars} by two obvious shell firms and a donor-advised fund, GS Donor Suggested Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Administration Inc., which is carefully related to Goldman Sachs. Rich patrons can disguise donations as nameless, consultants say. Revealed right here for the primary time, Goldman Sachs spokesman Tony Fratto mentioned the corporate’s philanthropy arm “terminated” Singham’s donor-advised fund in February 2024.
• Degree 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 venture, CodePink. The six organizations are BreakThrough BT Media, CodePink, Justice and Schooling Fund Inc., Individuals’s Discussion board Inc., Individuals’s Help Basis Ltd. and Tricontinental Ltd.
• Degree 3: These six nonprofits have pumped about $163 million into 52 organizations – together with themselves – and, importantly, 5 areas recognized solely by geography.
• Degree 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.
• Degree 5: The community doesn’t cease the place the cash path ends, as a result of 67 core teams accomplice with a whole lot of teams worldwide, making a community 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 Movie Competition at Regal Battery Park 11 in New York Metropolis.  (Jim Spellman/WireImage)

Singham Emerges

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

Movies and pictures from the convention present a uncommon public window into the messaging, symbolism and contributors of a community that in any other case operates opaquely.

The opening speak featured Prashad, Singham’s wedding 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. One other co-sponsor was the East China Regular College, which is run by the Communist Celebration of China.

Within the report, “eightieth Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist Warfare: Acknowledging Who Really Saved Human Historical past and Restoring Historic Fact,” which Fox Information Digital has uncovered, Singham rewrote the historical past of World Warfare II to raise the function of China and the “International South” in defeating Nazi Germany.

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

“Socialist peoples and management can defeat imperialism in any kind – fascist then, hyper-imperialist now – regardless of each materials drawback,” he argued. “That victory required genius, braveness and unimaginable sacrifice. It additionally proved one thing imperialism can not settle for: strange folks, organised and led with brilliance, can defeat any empire.”

Singham then quoted Mao, saying that the brutal chief “crystallized this reality” in his ebook “On Protracted Warfare,” when he wrote, “The richest supply of energy to wage struggle lies within the plenty of the folks.”

Within the paper, Singham diminishes the deaths of U.S. and British troops and servicemembers, writing that the Soviets and China actually received the struggle with, “59.8% socialists useless, 13.1% colonised peoples useless – just one% Anglo-People useless.”

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 mentioned, “Thanks, comrades, pals.” 

In a video of the event, unearthed by Fox Information Digital, Singham railed towards “the fascist lie” of the West that “there’s a battle between fascism, democracy and communism.”

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

“Fascism is definitely a face of capitalism and imperialism, as is colonialism. These are the three faces of a system that’s fairly now changing into very harmful for us.”

He didn’t determine “us.” 

Within the clip, Singham describes a “rules-based worldwide 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 in regards to the People and “their” failure to carry fascists accountable from the “anti-fascist” struggle. 

“If we need to, subsequently, have a brand new world order that’s primarily based on multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have now to undo the ideological injury that has been finished by the narrative of World Warfare II,” he mentioned, utilizing the acronym for the Communist Celebration of China, referred to as CCP within the West.

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

“China has an important function, and we, on this discussion board, have an important function,” Singham mentioned, “that to examine a brand new order, a brand new multi-polarity order, requires, fairly frankly, the deconstruction, a restorationist historical past of what actually occurred, who actually suffered. Of those that died, nearly 70% of the individuals who died in World Warfare II had been 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 various to Western “democracy.”

Marxist tycoon Neville Roy Singham stands (seventh from proper) with contributors of a International South Tutorial Discussion board he co-sponsored with Tricontinental Institute and East China Nomal College, which is managed by the Ministry of Schooling and the Chinese language Communist Celebration. His good friend and Tricontinental government Vijay Prashad stands close by (sixth from left), together with Lu Xinyu, a dean and professor at East China Regular College (third from proper). (International South Tutorial Discussion board)

Requested about Singham, Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Embassy of the Individuals’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C., advised Fox Information Digital, “I’m not aware of the specifics of this specific case.”

Pengyu added, “As a matter of precept, nonetheless, China constantly upholds the precept of non-interference within the inside affairs of different international locations.”

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

Uneven Warfare Machine

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

The investigation analyzed 1,663 occasions the Individuals’s Discussion board hosted from early August 2018 and its most up-to-date gatherings early this yr. The occasions included lecturers and researchers from at the very least 225 schools and universities which might be being analyzed individually.

The dimensions of what the couple constructed goes far past something beforehand documented, revealing a community that acts like a transnational, uneven propaganda machine. It includes a central headquarters, substantial struggle chest, outlined command construction, propaganda wing and street-level foot troopers. Its operations prolong past america into a number of abroad theaters.

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‘Terrorist’

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

When approached by Fox Information Digital on the Individuals’s Discussion board workplaces in Manhattan, Brian Becker, a founding father of the Celebration for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition, with operations on the Individuals’s Discussion board, referred to as the inquiries “witch looking” and referred to a reporter as “a terrorist.” 

Manolo De Los Santos, government director of the Individuals’s Discussion board, in contrast the scrutiny to the period of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who carried out congressional hearings into communist infiltration within the U.S. within the Fifties.

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

Quickly after, in mid-February, the International South Tutorial Discussion board 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 community has created a “Revolutionary Base” during which tutorial dialogue blends with historic symbols tied to revolutionary communism.

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

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