A socialist activist organization with ties to a China-linked financier is rapidly expanding a nationwide network of “Liberation Centers” for organizing protests, recruiting activists and spreading “revolutionary” political ideology across the United States.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), a far-left Marxist group known for anti-police activism and aggressive protest organizing, has opened or announced at least 28 event spaces nationwide since 2021, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of online posts and local news reports.
The indoor organizing hubs — often branded as “Liberation Centers” — serve as local gathering spaces for political workshops, activist training sessions, protest planning and ideological outreach campaigns for socialism, anti-capitalism and anti-American foreign policy activism.
The expansion comes as scrutiny grows over the PSL’s connections to networks linked to Shanghai-based businessman Neville Singham, a former American tech entrepreneur who has reportedly funneled tens of millions of dollars into left-wing advocacy groups aligned with pro-Chinese Communist Party narratives.
Investigations previously conducted by the Daily Caller News Foundation and The New York Times found overlapping leadership structures between the PSL and several Singham-backed organizations.
Singham, who sold his software company for roughly $785 million in 2017 and later relocated to Shanghai, has reportedly attended Chinese Communist Party propaganda events and maintained connections to Chinese state-linked initiatives. Reports have also tied him to the Chinese tech giant Huawei.
The PSL has repeatedly echoed positions favorable to the Chinese Communist Party, including praise for communist revolutionary Mao Zedong and denial or minimization of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, where Chinese authorities violently crushed pro-democracy demonstrators.
According to PSL materials, the Liberation Centers are designed to build what organizers describe as “working-class power” and a “movement against racism, poverty and war.”
But critics warn the centers function as sophisticated ideological recruitment hubs for radicalizing younger Americans and embedding activist infrastructure.
Manhattan Institute investigative analyst Stu Smith, who researches left-wing activist networks, told the Daily Caller News Foundation the PSL uses a repeatable organizing strategy focused on exploiting local grievances to build long-term political operations.
“Their model is simple; find a local grievance, radicalize it, and turn it into movement infrastructure,” Smith said.
“These centers are often staffed by semi-local organizers who cut their teeth elsewhere, then parachute into new communities,” he added.
Smith also warned that the group increasingly targets younger demographics through school activism and student organizing.
“They reach out to teenagers, encourage school disruptions and walkouts, and help create mini-PSL pipelines disguised as harmless ‘student unions,’” he said.
One example cited by the Daily Caller News Foundation involved a PSL chapter in Columbus, Ohio, which organized meetings encouraging students and parents to coordinate school walkouts against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Other events promoted by the group have included workshops on “Prison Abolition,” transgender activism, Marxist theory and revolutionary figures such as Che Guevara, the Cuban communist revolutionary associated with executions and political repression following the Cuban Revolution.
The Liberation Centers have expanded into both conservative and liberal regions across the country, appearing everywhere from Portland, Oregon, to the West Virginia panhandle.
Pennsylvania currently appears to host the largest concentration, with centers in Lancaster, Pittsburgh, Reading, Phoenixville, Philadelphia, York and West Chester.
Additional centers are planned for Houston and Washington, D.C., according to recent PSL social media posts.
The group’s D.C. chapter openly advocates for a sweeping far-left platform that includes slashing police budgets by 90%, abolishing cash bail, implementing guaranteed income programs and expanding taxpayer-funded “gender-affirming care” for minors.
Critics argue the broader network of Singham-backed organizations operates less like isolated activist groups and more like a coordinated expansion designed to normalize radical politics under the banner of social justice activism.
“It is not just one group or one campaign,” Smith told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It is an ecosystem of overlapping organizations, causes, and front-facing projects that all reinforce each other locally.”
Smith said even smaller towns are now seeing PSL infrastructure appear following periods of unrest and political activism.
“My guess is we ended up with one because the local radicals got especially rowdy during the [2020 Black Lives Matter] ‘Summer of Love,’ and PSL saw an opportunity to plant a flag,” he said.
The group itself appears increasingly explicit about its revolutionary ambitions.
In a recent Instagram post, PSL’s national chapter urged supporters to transform their anger over “capitalism, racism, war” into organized political activism.
“It’s not enough to be angry — we must be organized!” the organization wrote.
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