{"id":90434,"date":"2026-01-05T23:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T23:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T23:12:13","slug":"exclusive-marxist-group-peoples-forum-organized-pro-maduro-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/90434\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Marxist group People’s Forum organized pro-Maduro protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pro-Nicolas Maduro protesters <\/a>who turned up in Times Square and outside the Brooklyn federal lock-up where the former Venezuelan leader is being held were organized by hardcore left-wing group The People\u2019s Forum, which has close ties to China. <\/p>\n

The group \u2014 also behind anti-Israel demonstrations around the nation \u2014 called for \u201cemergency protests nationwide\u201d shortly after President Trump announced Saturday US forces had captured Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis war is not about drug trafficking, it is not about democracy \u2014 it is about stealing Venezuela\u2019s oil and dominating Latin America,\u201d said a People\u2019s Forum press release, announcing protests at Times Square and the White House Saturday. <\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Forum organized pro-Maduro protests across the country, including one near Times Square on the weekend, and in front of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn where Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are being held. BreakThrough News\/YouTube<\/p>\n

President Trump announced that Nicolas Maduro was captured by US forces in Venezuela on Saturday and flown to the US to stand trial on drug trafficking and other charges. REUTERS<\/p>\n

Maduro is widely accused of stealing the last presidential election in Venezuela in 2024 after its results showed him losing by a landslide. <\/p>\n

Maduro and Flores were flown to New York City by US forces, where the indictments against them were issued, and arraigned Monday<\/a> on drug trafficking and other charges in Manhattan federal court.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, pro-Maduro protesters clashed with jubilant Venezuelans who demonstrated outside the detention center where Maduro and his wife are being held.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an unprecedented crime against a sovereign nation and a warning of how far this administration is willing to go,\u201d said the People\u2019s Forum in a post on its X account <\/a>announcing the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) protest.<\/p>\n

GC Images<\/p>\n

Anti-Israel Marxist groups the People\u2019s Forum and the ANSWER Coalition organized \u201cemergency\u201d protests against the US administration\u2019s capture of former leader Nicolas Maduro. BreakThrough News\/YouTube<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Forum called on pro-Maduro activists to protest his capture across the country, including this demonstration in New Mexico. BreakThrough News\/YouTube<\/p>\n

Anti-war activist Jodie Evans and her husband Neville Roy Singham, have long supported the People\u2019s Forum. Evans is a board member for the Manhattan-based group, and Singham has bankrolled the radical organization from a base in Shanghai. Getty Images for V-Day<\/p>\n

One anti-Maduro protester, who left Venezuela during Maduro\u2019s repressive regime, called the pro-Maduro protesters \u201cfools.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey know nothing about Maduro,\u201d Manuel, 38, who attended the protest outside the MDC. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why they are here. They are just strange and stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Forum also organized protests<\/a> alongside one of is affiliate groups, ANSWER Coalition, in Texas, Georgia, Florida, California, Tennessee and many other states. <\/p>\n

A flyer being given out by protesters in front of the Manhattan court where Maduro was arraigned on Monday. It is unclear which group was behind this flyer. NY Post<\/p>\n

A flyer being given out by protesters in front of the Manhattan court where Maduro was arraigned on Monday. It is unclear which group was behind this flyer. NY Post<\/p>\n

The Marxist People\u2019s Forum works closely with the Communism-aligned Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), with a number of the same people serving on the boards of both groups.<\/p>\n

On Monday The PSL held a pro-Maduro protest, with around 25 people inside a park near Federal Plaza where Maduro was arraigned. They held a large banner that read \u201cNo War on Venezuela.\u201d<\/p>\n

The protesters chanted: \u201cWe want justice, you say how? Release Maduro right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elias Rodriguez<\/a>, who allegedly gunned down two people outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC last year had previously been linked to the PSL.<\/p>\n

A pro-Maduro protester in Venezuela holding up a portrait of the dictator at a rally calling for him to be released from prison in the US. AP<\/p>\n

An armed pro-government civilian loyal to Maduo in Caracas, Venezuela, on Jan. 4. AP<\/p>\n

Vehicles bombed by US forces in the early hours of Saturday morning in the operation to capture Maduro. X<\/p>\n

The radical People\u2019s Forum and the ANSWER Coalition organized pro-Hamas demonstrations in New York City a day after 1,200 Israelis were killed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023. Getty Images<\/p>\n

The People\u2019s Forum has long been financed by Neville Roy Singham, an American tech millionaire and extreme leftist who is based in Shanghai. Singham\u2019s anti-war activist wife Jodie Evans is a member of the People\u2019s Forum board, according to the group\u2019s public filings.<\/p>\n

But the group\u2019s funding may be running out. It recently called on its supporters to contribute to purchasing a permanent \u201cphysical home,\u201d <\/a>raising nearly $47,000 towards a $2 million funding goal, according to their website.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur initial donation is running out, and that left us with a choice,\u201d says the group in a post on their website. \u201cDo we run out the clock until the end of our lease and then fold up operations? Or do we do something even bigger and bolder, counting on the community we\u2019ve all built to make it happen?<\/p>\n

Members of the group have also organized pro-Cuba and pro-Maduro seminars at their current offices in Chelsea.<\/p>\n

A day after Hamas terrorists went on a bloody rampage killing 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023, the People\u2019s Forum also organized mass protests in New York City. Protesters burned Israeli flags and held up images of swastikas on their phones during the protests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pro-Nicolas Maduro protesters who turned up in Times Square and outside the Brooklyn federal lock-up where the former…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,15862,56,21760,4648,58,7318],"class_list":{"0":"post-90434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-nicolas-maduro","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-oil","15":"tag-protests","16":"tag-us-news","17":"tag-venezuela"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}