Report: Communist Group Influencing Recent Student Walkouts Nationwide

Defending Education’s online protest tracker, which went up this month, notes connections to the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Students from North Forney High School participate in an anti-ICE walkout in Forney, Texas, on Feb. 5, 2026. Bobby Sanchez for The Epoch Times

In Oakland, California, students in 11 different schools skipped class to protest recent Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests. A video later posted on social media linked to those events shows an angry middle school student reading a script and shouting into a microphone as her peers cheer and an adult in the background adjusts an amplifier.

“Trump, you are nuts,” the girl reads. “We will not stop at ICE. We will come after this whole system of fascism, injustice, and discrimination.”