Communist symbols replace crowns at ‘No Kings’ rallies backed by teachers’ unions

Communist hammer-and-sickle flags flew openly in Times Square Saturday as demonstrators at the nationwide “No Kings” rallies called for a general strike on May 1.

Protesters in New York chanted, “There is only one solution, Communist revolution.”

It was the outcome of a coordinated effort by a network of roughly 500 leftist organizations with an estimated $3 billion in combined annual revenues, according to a Fox News investigation.

The event’s official nationwide sponsors include the two largest teachers’ unions in the U.S.

Previously, The Lion reported that one statewide affiliate of America’s largest teachers’ union, the National Education Association (NEA), included a Marxist plank in its state assembly’s platform.

Now, three years after that first report, national teachers’ unions are sponsoring rallies where communist and other anti-American flags are routinely flying.

The Fox News Digital investigation helped identify key participants in the latest “No Kings” rallies by radical socialist and communist organizations funded by a billionaire who is under federal investigation.

Neville “Roy” Singham is an American tech tycoon and avowed communist living in China.

Singham has financed a constellation of activist institutions in the U.S. promoting revolutionary socialist politics, noted Fox.

Singham’s money flows to the People’s Forum in New York, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, as well as CodePink.

CodePink’s co-founder, Jodie Evans, is Singham’s wife. The organization has publicly supported Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini and Chinese President Xi Jinping, said Fox.

Evans has described pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong as “rioters” and the Uyghur minority in China as “terrorists,” reported NTD News.

She also penned a book titled China Is Not Our Enemy.

Singham has a net worth reportedly near $1 billion.

“Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines,” said one of the socialist organizations funded by Singham, according to Fox. “It’s the time to go out and join the people, get our revolutionary message in front of them, and turn a day of protest into long-term gains for the people’s movements.”

In addition to the teachers’ unions, AFL-CIO, the Service Employees International Union, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees also all actively endorsed No Kings Day as official sponsors, noted the official newspaper of Communist Party USA, People’s World.

“Their objective with the protest, again, is to show the leader of the corporate-backed ruling class, President Donald Trump, that the U.S. people are unafraid of him and that they mean to take the country back,” said People’s World.

American Federation of Teachers (AFT) President Randi Weingarten, speaking in Minnesota, called Trump a “wannabe king” and urged members into the streets.

AFT Secretary-Treasurer Fedrick Ingram appeared on CNN from Portland, Oregon.

“We’ve had bad laws before and we’ve had bad politicians, and we’ve always been able to get ourselves out of that by sticking together,” Ingram told CNN.

Just hours later, masked protesters breached the fence of a federal ICE facility, burned an American flag, and hurled rocks and debris at law enforcement.

Portland police arrested three people on assault and criminal mischief charges, including a 26-year-old who scaled the building’s roof, while demonstrators breached the facility’s front gate and burned an American flag, said local KPTV.

The Department of Homeland Security reported that in Los Angeles, approximately 1,000 rioters surrounded the Roybal Federal Building, throwing concrete blocks that injured two federal officers.

Hamas, Hezbollah and Antifa flags were captured on video at rally sites alongside the communist imagery.

As a follow up, the “No Kings” movement is planning on celebrating the communist holiday, May Day, in style with what appears to be an illegal general strike.

Indivisible, the Soros-funded lead coordinator of “No Kings,” is already pivoting its infrastructure toward a May Day strike.

The NEA and AFT are signed up for the general strike, as well as dozens of other union groups.

“On May 1, 2026, workers, students, and families rally, march, and take action across the country,” says the website with unintended irony, “to demand a nation that puts workers over billionaires, with many refusing business as usual through No School. No Work. No Shopping.”

Public sector strikes are illegal in the federal government and the vast majority of states.

Those prohibitions are enforced with serious penalties including fines, imprisonment of union officers and termination of employees.

The NEA’s own website acknowledges this, as they publish a state-by-state legal guide warning their own members of the risks.