“Communists” Push a Pro-NATO Coup: French Intel Plans Nov. 5 Provocation
By M. Stephanie Venu
Donald Trump came into office promising to stop the slaughter in Ukraine — claiming he could end the war within 24 hours. Kamala Harris, on the other hand, vowed to keep pouring weapons and money into Kiev’s corrupt regime until “victory” was achieved, no matter how many more lives were lost. Trump’s focus was on halting the bloodshed; Harris’s was on prolonging it.
But Harris’s ambitions went even further. As vice president, she helped oversee a Justice Department crackdown on anyone who dared question Washington’s pro-NATO line. Under her watch, the FBI raided the homes of peace activists like the Uhuru 3 — Penny Hess, Jesse Nevel, and Chairman Omali Yeshitela — and later went after former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter for speaking out against the war. Harris not only supported the neo-Nazi-sympathizing regime in Ukraine — she wanted to criminalize dissent against it.
Trump, for his part, has angered many of his early supporters by ordering airstrikes on Iran, backing Israel’s war crimes, and threatening pro-Palestine students with deportation. Yet his summit with Putin in Alaska suggested that some part of him still wants to pull the plug on this reckless war. The guns in Ukraine continue to thunder — but Wall Street and London want even more.
CPI activists rallying to support Peace Talks with Russia in New York City.
Trump Is Still Too Peace-Minded for the Global Elite
The brightest sign of hope so far has been Tulsi Gabbard’s revelations. As Intelligence Director, the decorated veteran exposed the Russiagate narrative for what it was: a deliberate fraud engineered by the Clinton campaign, coordinated with Obama-era intelligence officials, and amplified by the corporate media to justify confrontation with Moscow.
Without that lie, there would be no war in Ukraine today. Russiagate wasn’t just about discrediting Trump — it was about killing peace itself. It was a pretext to keep the war machine running. Now, as the architects of that hoax — figures like John Bolton and James Comey — face indictments, Trump has a freer hand to pursue peace. Talk of a “Bering Peace Tunnel” linking the U.S. and Russia — once dismissed as a fantasy — is surfacing again, an idea the Center for Political Innovation championed years ago.
Still, the ruling elite are furious. Kamala Harris even used her recent book tour to urge “titans of industry” to act against Trump. The message from the boardrooms of New York and London is clear: Trump must go.
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The old-money oligarchs — the entrenched Atlanticist order — see Trump as a dangerous Bonapartist, someone who could put his own factional agenda above theirs. His creation of ICE as a counterweight to the FBI and his populist “America First” rhetoric signal a man who wants to rule through his own loyal base, not through the decaying institutions of the establishment. As Caleb Maupin explained in What Is Bonapartism?, such figures always arise when capitalist crises deepen.
CPI Rally to Support Burkina Faso’s revolutionary anti-colonial government.
The French Empire Strikes Back
Paris has its own reasons for rage. France’s post-colonial grip on Africa has been collapsing. With Russian and Chinese support, nations like Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso have expelled French troops and formed the Alliance of Sahel States — a seismic blow to centuries of French exploitation. Leaders like Ibrahim Traoré are building a new future for Africa, centered on independence, family, and development.
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For France’s ruling class, this is humiliation — and they’re looking for revenge. As the Sarkozy corruption scandal deepens, French intelligence has turned to one of its old assets inside the United States: the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP).
The RCP — led for decades by Bob Avakian, who fled to Paris in 1982 after a series of disastrous anti-China stunts in Washington — has long had ties to French left-intelligence circles. France developed a policy of welcoming Communists from around the world who were fleeing prosecution, such as the Red Brigades of Italy. France also harbored environmentalist Ira Einhorn, the “Unicorn Killer,” for decades. France proceeded to cultivate these communists as intelligence assets, openly supporting radical causes that embarrassed the U.S. The French intelligence agencies were the primary supporters of the “Free Mumia!” protests of the 1990s. A street in Paris was named for Mumia, and he was granted citizenship by various cities across the country. France also boosted the Iraq War protests, with Jacques Chirac openly calling out Bush.
Bob Avakian directed the RCP from Paris for 20 years. The activism of this “Maoist” group lined up perfectly with French intelligence goals.
Staying in the country under undisclosed terms after his request for political refugee status was formally denied, Avakian directed the RCP from Paris to carry out operations that lined up perfectly with French foreign policy goals. The RCP even licked the boots of Harold Pinter, the playwright who at the same time was inducted into France’s Légion d’honneur. Avakian returned to the United States in 2003 to swiftly reorient the RCP to call for Bush’s impeachment, just before Michael Moore won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his anti-Bush film Fahrenheit 9/11.
Aligning with France for just causes like opposing the Iraq War or fighting to save Mumia Abu-Jamal’s life is respectable. But now, France is in complete lockstep with NATO. The French operatives have reactivated their American proxies to push for Trump to be ousted and replaced with someone more committed to the crusade against Russia. The RCP held a rally to support FBI Director James Comey when Trump fired him in his first term. Now the RCP is echoing Rachel Maddow in bemoaning the prosecution of John Bolton and other war criminals committed to the Atlanticist agenda.
The RCP has called for mass protests in Washington, D.C. on November 5th under the slogan “The Fall of the Fascist Trump Regime.” The aim is clear: destabilize the U.S. political scene, prevent peace with Russia, and drag the country deeper into NATO’s war.
The RCP: From “Revolutionaries” to Imperial Tools
Once, Maoists fought against war and colonialism. Now, the RCP serves the same imperial interests it used to denounce. Caleb Maupin exposed this betrayal years ago in his Letter to Bob Avakian, acknowledging the group’s ability to mobilize youth while condemning its utter confusion about power and class. Aligning with the intelligence agencies of NATO is not revolution — it’s collaboration. The main danger to the people of the world is not “Christian fascism”; it is the system of globalism/imperialism.
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Even so, the deep state doesn’t really need the RCP. When Roe v. Wade was overturned, the RCP tried to lead militant pro-abortion protests, only to be smeared by liberal media outlets like The Intercept and The Daily Beast. Sunsara Taylor was labeled a “groomer,” and the RCP was dismissed as a cult. The establishment has its own tools now: Antifa thugs, NGO front groups, Brian Becker, and TikTok influencers. The RCP’s November provocation will likely be a flop — a pale imitation of the “No Kings” mobilization of October 18th that was supported from the highest levels of the U.S. government, echoing roughly the same message as the RCP’s upcoming fiasco.
It’s tragic to watch what calls itself “communism” in America degenerate into liberal performance art. The same movement that once organized unemployed workers and fought Jim Crow has been hollowed out into a spectacle of anti-American flag-burning and Twitter atheism. The RCP’s obsession with “fascism” and “racism” is nothing but moral theater that shields the real enemy — the globalist monopolies driving for World War III.
When the Uhuru Movement was dragged into federal court in Tampa, Florida, and faced 15 years in prison for their speech supporting Russia, unlike Jill Stein, Scott Ritter, and the Center for Political Innovation — who stood with them outside the courthouse — the RCP was nowhere to be found. However, on November 5th, they plan to “shut it down” and stage a series of militant acts of civil disobedience to support James Comey and John Bolton.
CPI Founder Caleb Maupin addressing the press outside the Tampa Federal Court House on the day the Uhuru 3 were sentenced.
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Caleb Maupin’s theory of Innovationism offers an alternative — a revolutionary framework rooted in love for working families and the creative power of labor. It locates the capitalist crisis in the rise of automation and AI, not in moral failures or “isms.” Innovationism calls for a government of action to fight for working families — a new America aligned with the BRICS world, investing in its people, building infrastructure, and unleashing human ingenuity to create abundance.
The RCP dreams of chaos and civil war. Innovationism dreams of rebuilding civilization. The former serves empire; the latter serves humanity. The RCP is burning American flags and preaching militant atheism, waging a cultural war against “America” rooted in libidinal and Oedipal impulses. The Center for Political Innovation has an economic plan to rescue the country and a strategy for building the anti-monopoly coalition needed to bring it into being.
If you’re serious about peace, about opposing NATO’s new world war, and about reclaiming the American revolutionary tradition, learn about Innovationism and the work of the Center for Political Innovation. “Communism” is a dead brand in the West. November 5th will only prove it further.
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