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FIRST ON FOX: Secretary of State Marco Rubio is taking aim at “soulless global bureaucrats” using “rules-based order” arguments to undermine U.S. foreign policy in a speech Friday, warning that the “spirit of Marx” outlived the Soviet Union.
U.S. leaders of both parties defended the “rules-based international order,” the network of postwar institutions America built. Rubio is set to argue the system has been turned against the country that built it, the same case he made at his January 2025 confirmation hearing, when he called the postwar order “a weapon being used against us.”
In a preview of Rubio’s speech obtained by Fox News Digital, he outlines how Marxism still has a strong presence in Western society, a view which is relevant amid the rise of communist and Marxist beliefs that have driven protests against the administration and Western beliefs. The remarks are subject to change during his speech.
“For this global elite, ‘international law’ is not a neutral body of rules,” Rubio is expected to say. “It’s an instrument to advance their interests under the pretense of universal principles. They’re staunch defenders of democracy, until a particular election challenges their interests.”
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Sen. Marco Rubio testifies during his Senate Foreign Relations confirmation hearing at Dirksen Senate Office Building on Jan. 15, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
“Even as we defeated the institution of Soviet communism, we did not triumph over the spirit of Marx,” Rubio’s expected remarks read. “It lives on, in these new forms and doctrines, which would subordinate the national will to the menial consensus of the world. Marxism, in its traditional expression, sought to abolish the distinctions between men; the radicals of our time seek to abolish the distinctions between nations themselves.”
Rubio is expected to address the Federalist Society at the National Lawyers Convention on Friday, when he will go after the International Criminal Court and other global bodies he says are using the law as a political weapon, not to deliver justice. The secretary of state argues that they’re trying to tie America’s hands and let unelected judges and bureaucrats overseas override decisions that belong to the American people, according to a State Department source.
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David Chung, organizing director at The People’s Forum, prepares for an anti-war demonstration in Union Square in New York City, left. Tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham attends The Red Party in New York City on Feb. 14, 2018, right. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital; Mark Sagliocco/Getty Images)
The secretary of state is expected to defend the administration’s sanctions on the ICC, which he calls “an unelected world tribunal.” If it tries to enforce its “paper decrees” against Americans, he plans to say, the U.S. answer will echo the Roman general Pompey: “Stop quoting laws to men with swords.”
He also will push back on those who say Americans live on “stolen land,” arguing that critics who stand behind this belief deny the nation’s right to exist, and cast the U.S. as “a nation of irrepressible ambition,” according to the excerpts.
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Last week, Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed invoked “self-determination” and developed an argument about America’s role in the international system created after World War II, calling it a “chief violator” of international law.
“The beauty of this country is our ideals,” El-Sayed said.
“We led the effort in this country to build a rules-based international order,” he continued. “We built the United Nations and the World Health Organization and the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, so that we could uphold the ideals of democracy. We did that. And then we proceeded to be the chief violator of exactly those same ideals. To call our country to those ideals became an open question, how could you?”
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El-Sayed’s words echoed language used late last year by Neville Roy Singham, whose financial network has supported CodePink and other left-wing organizations.
After his wedding to Evans in 2017 and the sale of ThoughtWorks, the technology company he founded, Singham directed $285 million to nonprofits and media organizations, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. The People’s Forum received $22.4 million from Singham, while CodePink received $1.33 million. BreakThrough BT Media Inc., which operates BreakThrough News, received $1.098 million, according to tax filings. Singham and his wife, CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, live in Shanghai, China.
In a speech exactly one year ago, on Nov. 13, 2025, to the “Global South Academic Forum” at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Shanghai, Singham argued that the existing “international rules-based order” was built on a false narrative of World War II and called for a “new world order” based on multilateralism advanced by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China.
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“The international rules-based order was created by another lie,” Singham said.
“If we want to therefore have a new world order that is based on the multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War II,” Singham had said.
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This hostility to the U.S. has infused itself in the anti-American work of far-left organizations.
At the People’s Forum, Tricontinental and other groups funded by Singham, the programming includes Cuba solidarity campaigns, Venezuela advocacy, anti-Iran sanctions initiatives, opposition to NATO expansion and educational events on China, all framed within a broader narrative of “resistance” to U.S. influence.
Event flyers and social media posts repeatedly highlight Cuba, promoting teach-ins, cultural programming and delegations opposing U.S. policy.
CodePink, the People’s Forum and the Party for Socialism and Liberation are part of a network that is organizing protests, messaging, rallies and other symbols of support for the Communist Party of Cuba. (X/CodePink, X/People’s Forum, X/Party for Socialism and Liberation)
That narrative aligns with Singham’s rejection of the Western system.
Fox News Digital investigations have found that the “spirit of Marx” has storefronts, syllabi, fundraising apparatus in America’s nonprofit world and a critical role as the conduit for sending foot soldiers into America’s streets for protests to defend communist regimes across the world and promulgate anti-American propaganda.
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At the People’s Forum in Manhattan, its 1804 Books bookstore and press describes itself as a source of “socialist literature and revolutionary theory,” selling books by Marx, including a coloring book for children. Fox News Digital’s investigation traced $22.44 million to the People’s Forum and $16.76 million to Tricontinental through Neville Roy Singham’s funding network.
The bookstore’s catalog offers a reading list for that worldview: Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Program, his Critique of Political Economy and The German Ideology, written with philosopher Friedrich Engels.
Within the Singham network, Tricontinental places Marxism in its institutional purpose. Its statement of mission and work identifies “national liberation Marxism” as its anchoring tradition and invokes Marx’s argument that philosophy should change the world.
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Across the wider nonprofit landscape, other organizations carry Marx in their names or expressly embrace his ideas. The “Marxist Education Project” says it operates through the tax-exempt Movement Education Project Group Inc. and embraces Marxism as its framework. The People’s Forum once hosted its Capital, Volume II study group.
The “People Before Profits Education Fund,” also known as the Chelsea Fund for Education, solicits support for “Marxist education” and lists the “Little Red Schoolhouse,” a national Marxist school training young activists, among its projects. The “Marxists Internet Archive” describes itself as a nonprofit public library preserving Marxist writings.
