Documents Show Marxist Party Planned San Antonio High School Walkouts

Last month, high school students across San Antonio, Texas staged “walkouts” from school to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Documents obtained by the K-12 Tracker reveal that the walkout guide distributed to students was written by the Party for Socialism and Liberation, with only some additions made by involved student groups.

The documents mirror organizing tactics that the Tracker previously documented in a PSL webinar for Georgia high school students. These demonstrations were not organic student-led protests but instead were coordinated by the Party For Socialism and Liberation (PSL).

The document instructs students to recruit sympathetic teachers and ignore school administrators if they refuse to approve the protest. It also categorizes local schools by the level of “repression” organizers expect from administrators and provides chants for students to use during demonstrations.

San Antonio Student Organization Coordinating with PSL

San Antonio Students For Peace states that it is a student-formed and led organization. It has even formed a 501c3. SASFP is in the San Antonio Justice For Palestine coalition, alongside groups like the Democratic Socialists of America. Originally formed for anti-Israel activism, SASFP has since pivoted to anti-ICE activism.

SASFP’s Instagram account is followed by the Party For Socialism and Liberation’s San Antonio chapter.

SASFP published a walk-out guide (created January 28 2026 and updated last month) for San Antonio students that clearly shows coordination with the Party For Socialism and Liberation.

The Party For Socialism and Liberation

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is an explicitly Marxist party which “exists to carry out the struggle for socialism inside the United States, the center of world capitalism and imperialism.”

The PSL has been steadfast in its support of the Chinese Communist Party and the regime of Xi Jinping.

The PSL is also open about its support of Mao and the “Chinese Revolution”:

Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong announced the victory of the Chinese Revolution. Standing in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, Mao proclaimed, “China has stood up.” Mao was right.

The Chinese Revolution changed the world. It liberated a quarter of humanity from landlordism, exploitation and humiliating imperialist domination. It inspired hope among hundreds of millions of people living under colonialism and neo-colonialism in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Victory would have been unimaginable without the existence of the Chinese Communist Party and the extraordinary military it created, the People’s Liberation Army. The CCP-led government charted a course to build a new, socialist society.

Within a few years, the People’s Republic of China virtually eliminated mass famine and illiteracy. Health care, education, employment, housing and food became fundamental rights guaranteed to everyone. While these rights were weakened with the implementation of “market socialism” policies, beginning in 1978, current living conditions for Chinese workers and farmers are far better than they were before the revolution.

The PSL also has a long record of denying that a massacre took place at Tiananmen Square.

The Walkout Guide

The Walkout Guide was written by the Party For Socialism and Liberation, with highlighted additions made by SASFP. The guide tells students to ignore school administration if they refuse to sanction a walk out, and praises the “courage” and leadership of students who lead walkouts.

Students are encouraged to identify sympathetic teachers who can help arrange the walkout and to use school clubs to recruit additional participants.

As in the Georgia webinar, students are told they will have “safety in numbers” and so should recruit as many students and teachers as possible.

The Walkout guide includes a list of schools, organized by expected “repression” from school administration.

The PSL provides chants for students to yell during the walk out including anti-police chants and a chant to “stand up. fight back” when “our community is under attack.”

PSL In Our Schools

The PSL has active members within K-12 education. The Tracker has previously shown, for example, that United Educators For San Francisco Vice President Frank Lara is a PSL member. He has run workshops for fellow union members in which he uses PSL materials.

In San Antonio, PSL-member Corrie Arnell Rosen is a teacher at IDEA public schools - Carver College Prep.

Rosen has been nominated for teacher of the year in the IDEA school system.

In 2024, Rosen received a “master teacher” designation from the Texas Education Agency, an award for “top performing teachers.” The award gives money to the teacher’s district, 90% of which must be distributed to the awarded teacher or shared among other qualifying teachers in the district.

Rosen’s social media, which documents her activism and radical views, is public and accessible to students.

In the below image, Rosen comments on PSL San Antonio’s post about the walkouts - “I am one proud teacher. Love our future generation!!!”

Rosen attended the 2024 People’s Conference for Palestine, which she called “an incredible experience…” .

A member of Palestinian Youth Movement said of the 2024 conference “It will allow us to chart a path forward of resistance and struggle within the belly of the beast.”

The 2024 People’s Conference For Palestine has received a lot of coverage for its links to the U.S. - designated terrorist group the Popular Front For the Liberation of Palestine and for the radicalism expressed by speakers at the conference.

The 2024 conference featured a member of the PFLP who had to appear remotely because his visa to the United States was denied. The keynote speaker at the conference was the wife of a PFLP member.

At the conference, Rosen took a photo with Medea Benjamin of Code Pink. Code Pink’s co-founder is married to Neville Singham. The PSL is believed to be funded by Neville Singham, a US billionaire based in China, with ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

The walkout guide reveals that, far from being an organic student movement, the Party For Socialism and Liberation is providing a detailed how-to protest guide for students. As the Tracker revealed in the Georgia webinar, PSL members are coordinating directly with high school students, over text and Telegram, to train students and arrange the walk outs.

PSL members are in teacher unions, in our schools, and organizing directly with students.